Fall 2004
Literature Seminars
"The Encapsulation Chemistry of Coordination Cages"
Julie L. Boyer
"Cyclometalated Iridium and Platinum Phosphors in OLEDs"
Nathan Eddingsaas
"Exploring the Role of Copper in Alzheimer's Disease"
Charity Flener
"Rhodium Complexes in Bond Activation and Cyclization Reactions"
John A. Giles
"Desulfurization of Transportation Fuels with Zeolite Adsorbents"
Michael D. Gustavson
"Catechol Dioxygenases: Structure and Mechanism"
Aaron K. Justice
"Chiral-at-Metal Complexes and the Diels-Alder Reaction"
Adam M. Kiefer
"Ion Transportation through Cellular Potassium Channels"
Debapriya Mazumdar
"Inorganic Molecular Junctions"
Michael J. Motala
"Gold Catalysts for CO Oxidation"
Karina Paprocki
"Metallosupramolecular Gridlike Structures"
Masha G. Savelieff
"Overcoming Resistance to the Antitumor Action of Cisplatin: New Compounds and Modes of Delivery"
Jane L. Stanley
"Sequestration of Plutonium in the Body and the Environment"
C. Matthew Whaley
"Insulin-Mimetic Vanadium IV/V Complexes"
Natasha H. Yeung
Final Defenses
"The Design of Cyanometallate Cages for Alkali Ion Separation"
Matthew L. Kuhlman
Spring 2005
Final Defenses
"Fluorescent and Colorimetric Biosensors Based on DNAzymes and DNA Aptamers"
Juewen Liu