Seminars
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February 12, 2010, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Professor Chris Bielawski
Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin"N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: New Applications in Catalysis and Polymer Chemistry"
(Jeffries-EL)
February 18, 2010, Thursday, 1652 Gilman Hall, 2:10 pm
Dr. Lisa M. Balbes, ACS Career Consultant
Balbes Consultants"Managing an Effective Job Search: Targeting the Job Market"
Dr. Lisa M. Balbes founded Balbes Consultants (formerly Osiris Consultants) in 1992 to help companies produce better scientific documentation. She provides scientific writing services and custom workshops to more then 50 client companies, including Bausch and Lomb Surgical, Divergence, SigmaAldrich, Stereotaxis, and the FDA. Dr. Balbes is the author of Nontraditional Careers for Chemists, published by Oxford University Press in 2006. She earned her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her undergraduate degrees in chemistry and psychology from Washington University in St Louis. Dr. Balbes is currently a councilor for the St Louis local section of the American Chemical Society, and chair of the Committee on Economic and Professional Affairs subcommittee on Professional Program Development, as well as the ACS Task Force on Globalization. She was chair of the St Louis Section in 2002, and received both an Outstanding Local Section Achievement Award and a Salute to Excellence Award for her work there. She has been an ACS volunteer career consultant since 1993, providing advice and information to hundreds of scientists, and has been a national certified presenter on career- related topics since 2001.
(Burnett)
February 18, 2010, Thursday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm
Dr. Lisa Balbas
Balbas Consulting"Careers for Chemists - Traditional and Non-"
A chemistry background prepares you for much more than just a laboratory career. The broad science education, analytical thinking, research methods, and other skills learned are of value to a wide variety of types of employers, and essential for a plethora of types of positions. By understanding your own personal values and interests, you can make informed decisions about what career paths to explore, and identify positions that match your needs. This talk will discuss a variety of nontraditional careers for chemists, such as chemical information, patent work, technical writing, education, human resources, sales and marketing, and much more. We will discuss typical tasks, education or training requirements, and personal characteristics that make for a successful career in each field, illustrated with specific examples. Valuable tips and advice about planning career transitions will also be provided.
(Burnett)
February 18, 2010, Thursday, 0005 Physics Hall, 6:00 pm
Dr. Lisa Balbas
Balbas Consulting"Managing an Effective Job Search: Resume Preparation for Chemical Professionals"
(Burnett)
February 18, 2010, Thursday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 7:45 pm
Dr. Lisa Balbas
Balbas Consulting"Managing an Effective Job Search: Effective Interviewing"
(Burnett)
February 19, 2010, Friday, 301B Spedding Hall, 10:30 am, Final Defense
Xueqian (Sean) Kong
Schmidt-Rohr group, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University"Characterizations of Fuel Cell Membrane by Solid State NMR"
(Schmidt-Rohr)
February 26, 2010, Friday, 1651 Gilman Hall, 10:00 am
OPEN HOUSE I
Iowa State University
March 5, 2010, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Professor Brian Stoltz
California Institute of Technology"Complex Natural Products as a Driving Force for Discovery in Organic Chemistry"
(Larock)
March 11, 2010, Thursday, 301B Spedding Hall, 4:10 pm, Coover Lecture
Professor Emily Carter
The Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University"Quantum Mechanical Material Simulations at the Mesoscale: Physics, Algorithms, and Applications"
(Miller)
March 12, 2010, Friday, 1651 Gilman, 10:00 am
OPEN HOUSE II
Iowa State University
March 26, 2010, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Professor Stan Wong
SUNY Stonybrook and Brookhaven National Laboratory"Chemical Strategies in Nanoscience"
(Lin)
March 26, 2010, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 3:10 pm
Professor Bill Gelbart
The Virus Research Group, Department of Chemistry, UCLA"Making Viruses"
(Song)
March 31, 2010, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm
Cotton-Uphaus Competition
None"TBA"
(Windus)
April 2, 2010, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Professor David Wiemer
Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa"TBA"
(Verkade)
April 2, 2010, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm, V.A. Fassel Lecture in Analytical Chemistry
Professor Akos Vertes
Department of Chemistry George Washington University"Tissue Imaging and Single Cell Analysis by LAESI Mass Spectrometry"
(Lee)
April 6, 2010, Tuesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm
Professor Geraldine Richmond
University of Oregon"Going Nonlinear to Study the Structure and Dynamics of Molecular Assembly at Complex Interfaces"
(Gordon/Jeffries-EL)
April 7, 2010, Wednesday, Sun Room, Memorial Union, 8:00 pm, Iowa State Presidential Lecture in Chemistry Series
Professor Geraldine L. Richmond
Richard M. and Patricia H. Hoyes Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Oregon"At the Water's Edge: Understanding Environmentally Important Processes at Liquid Surfaces"
(Gordon & Jeffries-EL)
April 8, 2010, Thursday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 8:00 pm, Gilman Lecture
Professor Dennis A. Dougherty
California Institute of Technology"Chemistry on the Brain: Understanding the Nicotine Receptor"
(Pohl)
April 16, 2010, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 2:10 pm
Department of Chemistry Awards Ceremony
None"TBA"
(Petrich)
April 23, 2010, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Professor Richard Brutchey
University of Southern California"New Bench-Top Chemical Methods for the Synthesis of Functional Inorganic Nanocrystals"
(Sadow)
April 30, 2010, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Professor Susannah Scott
UC Santa Barbara"Creating effective support-activators for olefin polymerization catalysts: Boranes, alkylaluminums and beyond"
(Sadow)
May 7, 2010, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 2:10 pm
To Be Announced
None"TBA"
(TBA)
March 24, 2011, Thursday, Sun Room, Memorial Union, 8:00 pm, Iowa State Presidential Lecture in Chemistry Series
Professor Richard R. Schrock
Massachusetts Institute of Technology"TBA"
Richard R. Schrock
Frederick G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry
March 25, 2011, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Professor Richard R. Schrock
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Chemistry"TBA"
Richard R. Schrock
Frederick G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry
