Department Seminar

Upcoming Seminar

Taking your Chemistry Degree into the Aerospace Industry
Dr. Michael Kahr, CSU Long Beach alumnus

September 18, 2024
4:00pm-5:00pm in HSCI-103

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Michael Kahr

Dr. Michael Kahr, CSULB Chemistry alumnus, will present a talk entitled "Taking Your Chemistry Degree into the Aerospace Industry."  Recently retired, Dr. Kahr's career spanned thirty years working in the aerospace and national defense industry as a chemist and a manager.

The talk will cover the path he took in his career, considerations for students on the near term decisions they will be making, advice for looking for a job and interviewing, career management, and considerations for students contemplating a career in the aerospace industry.

Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 4:00pm. All are invited to attend.

Seminar Coordinator

For information and suggestions about our Department Seminar series, please contact the seminar coordinator:

Dr. Fangyuan Tian
Fangyuan.Tian@csulb.edu


Schedule

The following schedule is for Fall 2024.

Seminar Schedule
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
September 18Taking your Chemistry Degree into the Aerospace IndustryDr. Michael Kahr, CSU Long Beach alumnus
September 25Tenure TalkElena Grintsevich, CSU Long Beach
September 30Hydrogen-Atom Transfer at Metal-Organic Framework-Liquid InterfacesHyunho Noh, University of Oklahoma
October 2Electroanalysis of biological systemsJean-Luc Fraikin, Spectradyne Inc.
October 9Fabrication of nanomaterialsMalkiat Johal, Pomona College
October 16Structure-Reactivity Relationships of unique intermediates and ScaffoldsDaniel Bercovici, Cal Poly SLO
October 24Conceptually New Clusteroluminescence (CL) Emergent from Clusterization of Non-emissive MoleculesBen Zhong Tang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
October 30Recruitment TalkTBD, Wayne State University
November 6Discovery and development of synthetic transformations for applications in medicinal chemistry, drug discovery, and natural products synthesisJozef Stec, Marshall B. Ketchum University
November 13Chemical educationRenee Link, UC Irvine
November 20Engineering better scaffolds for improved healing of bone defectsDonghui Zhu, SUNY Stony Brook
December 4Computational Protein Design of Immunogens for Neurodegenerative DiseasesAina Adekunle, CSU Dominguez Hills
December 11The "Rippled" Beta-Sheet: An Old Theory by Pauling and Corey Inspires New BiomaterialEvgenij Raskatov, UC Santa Cruz

Previous Seminars

Previous Seminars for Fall 2024
DateTitleSpeaker and Affiliation
September 11The Carbonyl-Isocyanide Relationship and BeyondDr. Joshua Figueroa, UC San Diego
September 4Programmable DNA-templated metal nanoclusters: science and emerging biophotonics applicationsDr. Stacy Copp, UC Irvine

The Seminar Archive has Department Seminars from previous semesters.


The Department Seminar is supported by The Allergan Foundation.