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
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.
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| September 18 | Taking your Chemistry Degree into the Aerospace Industry | Dr. Michael Kahr, CSU Long Beach alumnus |
| September 25 | Tenure Talk | Elena Grintsevich, CSU Long Beach |
| September 30 | Hydrogen-Atom Transfer at Metal-Organic Framework-Liquid Interfaces | Hyunho Noh, University of Oklahoma |
| October 2 | Electroanalysis of biological systems | Jean-Luc Fraikin, Spectradyne Inc. |
| October 9 | Fabrication of nanomaterials | Malkiat Johal, Pomona College |
| October 16 | Structure-Reactivity Relationships of unique intermediates and Scaffolds | Daniel Bercovici, Cal Poly SLO |
| October 24 | Conceptually New Clusteroluminescence (CL) Emergent from Clusterization of Non-emissive Molecules | Ben Zhong Tang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| October 30 | Recruitment Talk | TBD, Wayne State University |
| November 6 | Discovery and development of synthetic transformations for applications in medicinal chemistry, drug discovery, and natural products synthesis | Jozef Stec, Marshall B. Ketchum University |
| November 13 | Chemical education | Renee Link, UC Irvine |
| November 20 | Engineering better scaffolds for improved healing of bone defects | Donghui Zhu, SUNY Stony Brook |
| December 4 | Computational Protein Design of Immunogens for Neurodegenerative Diseases | Aina Adekunle, CSU Dominguez Hills |
| December 11 | The "Rippled" Beta-Sheet: An Old Theory by Pauling and Corey Inspires New Biomaterial | Evgenij Raskatov, UC Santa Cruz |
Previous Seminars
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| September 11 | The Carbonyl-Isocyanide Relationship and Beyond | Dr. Joshua Figueroa, UC San Diego |
| September 4 | Programmable DNA-templated metal nanoclusters: science and emerging biophotonics applications | Dr. Stacy Copp, UC Irvine |
The Seminar Archive has Department Seminars from previous semesters.
The Department Seminar is supported by The Allergan Foundation.
