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Please note: Guidance from the CDC, Arkansas Department of Health and university may change rapidly given the fluidity of the situation.

 

dept sEminars

Dept seminars are held on Mondays in  CHEM 144 @ 3:30pm followed by a reception in CHEM 105  

01.13.20 | FIRST DAY OF SPRING TERM

01.20.20 | MLK HOLIDAY

01.27.20-02.17.20 | No Seminar

02.24.20 | PULAY LECTURE | Martin Head-Gordan, UC Berkeley | Recent developments in density functional theory: From new functionals to the nature of the chemical bond

03.02.20 | FRY LECTURE | Tadhg P. Begley, Texas A&M University | New catalytic motifs in flavoenzymology

03.09.20 | Joshua Snyder, Drexel University | Morphological instabilites in topologically complex nanocatalysts

03.12.20 | All previously scheduled spring events have been cancelled.

04.30.20 | LAST DAY OF SPRING TERM

08.24.20 | FIRST DAY OF FALL TERM

08.31.20 | No Seminar

09.07.20 | LABOR DAY HOLIDAY

09.14.20 | Alexander Star, University of Pittsburg

09.21.20 | Nan Jiang, University of Illinois

09.28.20 | TBD

10.05.20 | TBD

10.12.20 | TBD

10.19.20 | FALL BREAK

10.26.20 |  FRY LECTURE | Tobias Ritter, Max-Planck-Institut fur Kohlenforschung  

11.02.20 | TBD

11.09.20 | TBD

11.16.20 |  Mita Dasog, Dalhousie University

11.23.20 | TBD

11.30.20 |  Alex Adronov, McMaster University

12. 07.20|  Peter Sues, Kansas State University

12.10.20 | LAST DAY OF FALL TERM

 

EVENTS 

01.24.20 | ANALYTICAL SEMINAR | David Hinton, Technology Ventures, U of A | Intellectual property and commercialization

01.31.20 | ANALYTICAL SEMINAR | Jody Buckholz,  NSU | Strategies for improving recruitment and success for Native American and other socioeconomically challenged undergraduate students for STEM graduate programs 

02.15.20 | Deadline for chemistry majors to apply for scholarhips | Start Here https://scholarships.uark.edu/application-instructions.php  

03.12.20 | All previously scheduled spring events have been cancelled.

04.30.20 | LAST DAY OF SPRING TERM

10.12.20 | DEPT 3MT COMPETITION | It is open to chemistry PhD students, and challenges participants to present their research in just 180 seconds, in an engaging form that can be understood by an intelligent audience with no background in the research area. 

11.6-7.20 | INBRE CONFERENCE | The Arkansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (Arkansas INBRE) Research Conference involves participation from colleges and universities in Arkansas and surrounding states in biological sciences, physics and chemistry and biochemistry. This conference is sponsored by the Arkansas INBRE. It is hosted by the departments of Biological Sciences, Physics, and Chemistry and Biochemistry in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas. Conference Link

12.11.20 | DEAD DAY LUNCH | NOON