Highlands in Chemistry Seminar Series Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Spring 2000 Seminar Schedule All seminars will be held on Friday at 11:00 am in Room 3, Davidson Hall

Date  Speaker & Affiliation  Seminar Title  Host  January 21  Dr. Bruce R. McCord  Department of Chemistry  Ohio University  "Capillary Electrophoresis in the Analysis of PCR Products and its Forensic Applications"  B. Tissue  January 28  Dr. Kathryn Uhrich  Department of Chemistry  Rutgers University  "Polymers for Controlled Drug Delivery"  J. McGrath  February 4  Dr. Matthew V. Tirrell  Department of Chemical Engineering  University of California, Santa Barbara  "Creating Functional Peptide Architectures at Interfaces"  W. Ducker  February 11  Dr. Charles C. Han  National Institute of Standards and Technology  "Structure Formation and Scaling in Polymer Mixtures Under Simple Shear Flow"  A. Esker  February 18  Dr. Dorothea J. Jeffery  DuPont  Wilmington, Delaware  ""Capillary Electrophoresis: Using High Voltage to Characterize Nutriceuticals and to Determine Environmental Fate"  L. Taylor  February 25  Dr. George G. Stanley  Department of Chemistry  Louisiana State University  "Homobimetallic Hydrocarboxylation Catalysis: The Dramatic and Unexpected Effect  of Water on a Bimetallic Hydroformylation Catalyst"  P. Deck  March 3  Dr. Bruce A. Moyer  Oak Ridge National Laboratory  "Fundamental Research Toward a Process for Nuclear-Waste   Treatment: Cesium Separation Using Calix-Crown Ethers"  H. Gibson  March 10  Dr. Matthew Tuchler  Department of Chemistry  Washington and Lee University  "Reaction Dynamics of Small Molecules: The Devil is in the Details"  W. Ducker  March 17  SPRING BREAK  NO SEMINAR  March 24  Dr. Arthur Cammers-Goodwin  Department of Chemistry  University of Kentucky  "A Minimalist Conformational Model for Hydrophobic Collapse in Aqueous Solution"  R. Gandour  March 31  Dr. Christa L. Colyer  Department of Chemistry  Wake Forest University  "Labeling Made Easy for Capillary Electrophoresis with Laser Induced Fluorescence Detection"  H. McNair  April 7  Dr. Peter Beak  Department of Chemistry  University of Illinois  "Diastereoselective and Enantioselective Reactions of Organolithium Compounds; Mechanisms and Applications in Asymmetric Syntheses"  N. Castagnoli  J. Wolfe    April 14  Dr. Charles P. Casey  Department of Chemistry  University of Wisconsin  "A New Era of Polymer Synthesis with Metallocene Catalysts"  C. Slebodnick  April 21  Dr. F. Ann Walker  Department of Chemistry  University of Arizona  "Novel No-Releasing Heme Proteins from the Saliva of Blood-Sucking Insects"  N. Castagnoli  April 28  Dr. Catherine H. Middlecamp  Department of Chemistry  University of Wisconsin-Madison  "Teaching Polymers Examples of Active Learning"  L. Taylor

* If you are a person with a disability and desire any assistive devices, services or other accommodations to participate in these activities, please contact Dr. David Kingston, Chemistry Department, 3111 Hahn Hall, (540) 231-6570 during the business hours of 8:00 am and 5:00 pm to discuss accommodations one week prior to each event.