Events and Seminars

Upcoming Events

3-5 p.m. Friday, August 22
Science & Engineering Innovation & Research (SEIR) Building 2nd floor lobby

All new and returning College of Science students are invited to our back-to-school mixer as we kick off our 60th anniversary! Make new friends and chat with College of Science faculty members from all departments in an informal setting. Refreshments will be served.

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Monday, August 25
Chemistry & Physics Building (CPB) lobby and Planetarium Plaza

You are invited to join the College of Science during our Maverick Stampede welcome back to school event! Come by for a cold treat, games, giveaways, and more. Connect with other Mavericks, cool off and find your community in a science student organization.

12-1 p.m. Monday, September 8
Science & Engineering Innovation & Research (SEIR) Building, room TBA

All College of Science students are invited to this session on what careers you can go into with a science degree. More details coming soon.

COS Ph.D. Open House 

4-5:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 30
Science & Engineering Innovation & Research (SEIR) Building, 2nd floor

All students interested in enrolling in a College of Science doctoral program are invited to this info session, which includes a panel discussion and Q&A followed by an informal mixer in the SEIR 2nd floor lobby. Refreshments will be served.

3-5 p.m. Wednesday, October 1
Science & Engineering Innovation & Research (SEIR) Building, 2nd floor

Students, are you interested in learning how to get involved in undergraduate research in the College of Science? Come to this 3 p.m. event where a panel of student researchers will discuss how they got started, and faculty will give tips on how to become involved, followed by a Q&A session. The panel will be followed by a faculty-student mixer at 4 p.m. in the SEIR 2nd floor lobby where you can ask faculty members from various departments questions about research for students! Refreshments will be served at the mixer.

October 6-10
Events, dates and locations coming soon!

The Office of Health Professions will host a week of informative and fun events for students interested in careers in health professions fields. Stay tuned for specific event announcements, dates and locations.

SEMINAR SERIES

Each semester, the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry hosts a weekly Seminar Series featuring a guest speaker discussing a topic related to their research. Seminars are held each Friday from 3-4 p.m. in W.A. Baker Chemistry Research Building (CRB) Room 114 unless otherwise noted. Refreshments will be served in CRB Room 112 at 2:45 p.m. Dr. Junha Jeon is the faculty coordinator of the series.

February 28, 2025

Susan Richardson

University of South Carolina

“Improving Drinking Water Safely: Addressing New Impacts and Identifying Important Toxicity Drivers”

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March 7, 2025

James K McCusker

Michigan State University

“The Photophysics and Photochemistry of First-row Transition Metal Complexes: Quantum Coherence, the Marcus Inverted Region, and Applications in Excited-state Chemistry”

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March 21, 2025

Si Wu

University of Alabama

“High-throughput Quantitative Top-down Proteomics”

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March 28, 2025

Jiali Gao

<span">University of Minnesota </span">

“Allosteric Mechanism of Engineered Enzymes and Photoreceptor Proteins”

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April 4, 2025

Ghanashyam Acharya

Baylor College of Medicine

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April 11, 2025

Kangsang Lee

University of Central Florida

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April 18, 2025

Susan Lunte

University of Kansas

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April 25, 2025

Robert Dunn

University of Kansas

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