Seminars in Chemistry and Physics

Fall 2010 Seminar Schedule

Departmental seminars are free of charge and open to the public. All seminars will be held in Glaske C101 from 11:00 to 11:50 a.m. unless otherwise stated.

September 

2  Preliminary results of POGIL in the general chemistry classroom
Gary DeBoer, LeTourneau University, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Longview, TX

23  Nanotechnology and clay
Gary Beall, Texas State University in San Marco, TX

30  Atomic Summer:  Nuclear Physics on the West Coast
Dave Kuntz, LeTourneau University, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Longview, TX 

October 

7 Chemical Engineering for undergrads and graduates
James Palmer, Associate Professor and chair, Chemical Engineering, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA

21  Pediatric wheelchairs
Karen Rispin, LeTourneau University, Department of Biology, Longview, TX

29  Genetic evidence for the common ancestry of mankind and primates (7:00 pm)
Dennis Venema, Associate Professor and Department Chair, Biology Department, Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia

November 

4 Medicinal Chemistry: antimicrobial drug synthesis 
Bruce Hathaway, LeTourneau University, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Longview, TX

11 Top secret weapons development
Keith McGinley

18 Biofuels made from genetically modified microbes
Andree Elliott, Associate Professor and chair, Department of Biology, LeTourneau University.  

December 

2  The origin of the moon and the origin of humanity, an analogy
Steve Ball, Professor and chair, Department of Chemistry and Physics, LeTourneau University

(Views expressed by the speakers at seminar are their own and should not be taken as official positions of LeTourneau University)