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Department of Chemistry

Celebrating Our 125th Anniversary

  • Friday | November 13 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Istvan Molnar , Arid Lands Studies, University of Arizona A Serial Killer, Arrested Movement, and CODs: Molecular Genetics of Anti-haptotactic and Insecticidal Secondary Metabolites From Beauveria Bassiana. more...
  • Friday | November 6 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Gerald B. Hammond , University of Louisville Extreme Makeover: Revisiting the Principle of Vinylogy in Synthesis more...
  • Friday | October 30 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor R. Mark Wightman , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Voltammetric Measurements of Rapid Chemical Signalling in the Brain by Dopamine more...
  • Friday | October 23 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor David E. Cane , Brown University Nature as Stereochemist: Unraveling the Complexities of Polyketide Antibiotic Biosynthesis more...
  • Friday | October 16 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Victor W. Pike ,National Institutes of Health/NIMH Radiofluorinated Arenes and Tracers from Iodonium Salts more...
  • Friday | October 9 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Weihong Tan , University of Florida Molecular Profiling of Cancer: A Chemical Biology Approach more...
  • Thursday and Friday | September 24, 25 Hamilton Award Lecture | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Peter G. Schultz , The Scripps Research Institute Thursday: An Expanding Genetic Code Friday: Chemical Approaches to Stem Cell Biology more...
  • Friday | September 18 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Scott A. McLuckey , Purdue University Ion/ion Reactions: New Chemistry for Bioanalysis via Mass Spectrometry more...
  • Friday | September 11 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Lawrence Parkhurst , University of Nebraska - Lincoln Why Fret more...
  • Friday | May 8 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Matthew H. J. Cordes , The University of Arizona The Evolution of a New Protein Fold more...
  • Friday | May 1 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Cathleen Crudden , Queen's University, Canada, Transition Metal Catalysis with Molecules and Materials more...
  • Friday | April 24 | 2:45 pm | 548 Hamilton Hall
    Graduate Student Awards Reception

  • Friday | April 24 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Graduate Student Awards Seminar

  • Friday | May 1 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Cathleen Crudden , Queen's University, Canada, Transition Metal Catalysis with Molecules and Materials more...

  • Friday | April 17 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Gavin E. Reid, Michigan State University, Evaluation and Development of Mass Spectrometry Strategies for Phosphoproteome Analysis more...

  • Friday | April 10| 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Uwe H. F. Bunz, Georgia Institute of Technology, From Cruciform Fluorophores to Antiaromatic Large Heteroacenes more...

  • Friday | March 13| 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Kevin Plaxco, University of California Santa Barbara , Better Living Through Biosensors more...

  • Friday | March 6| 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Dagmar Ringe, Brandeis University, MA, The Roles of Second Shell Residues in the Active Site of an Enzyme more...

  • Friday | February 20| 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Hamid Band, UNMC-Eppley Cancer Center, Ubiquitin-Dependent Negative Regulation of Tyrosine Kinase Receptors: Cell Biology and Translational Possibilities more...

  • Friday | February 13| 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor J. Karl Johnson, University of Pittsburgh, Atomistic Modeling of Hydrogen Storage in Complex Metal Hydrides more...

  • Friday | January 30 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Deborah S. Wuttke, University of Colorado at Boulder, Tying Up the Ends: Recognition of Single-Stranded DNA at Telomeres more...
  • Friday | December 5 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Joseph Noel, Salk Institute, Pealing Back the Layers of Time: Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of Nature's Chemical Toolbox Mass Spectrometry as a Versatile and Comprehensive Tool to Study Biopolymer Behavior: From Model Systems to Biopharmaceutical Products more...

  • Wednesday | December 3 | 2:30 pm | 548 Hamilton Hall Analytical Seminar - Professor Michael J. van Stipdonk, Wichita State University, Kansas, What's my ion look like? Using tandem mass spectrometry, infrared photodissociation and theoretical calculations to determine ion structure more...

  • Friday | November 21 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall Chemistry Colloquium –MICHAEL L. GROSS LECTURESHIP - Professor Igor Kaltashov, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Mass Spectrometry as a Versatile and Comprehensive Tool to Study Biopolymer Behavior: From Model Systems to Biopharmaceutical Products more...

  • Friday, November 14
    This week's chemistry colloquium has been cancelled.

  • Friday | November 7 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Gianluigi Veglia, University of Minnesota, Hybrid Solution and Solid-State NMR Approach to Analyze Structure, Dynamics, and Interactions of Membrane Proteins more...

  • Friday | October 31 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Robert Powers, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Protein Structure, Function and Evolution more...

  • Friday | October 24 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium POSTPONED - Professor Hamid Band, UNMC-Eppley Cancer Center, Ubiquitin-Dependent Negative Regulation of Tyrosine Kinase Receptors: Cell Biology and Translational Possibilities more...

  • Friday | October 17 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium OPEN

  • Friday | October 10 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium –Professor D. Wayne Goodman, Texas A & M University, Catalysis by Au and Au Alloys:  From Single Crystals to Nanoparticles more...

  • Friday | October 3 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium –Professor Paul Weiss, Pennsylvania State University, Designing, Measuring and Controlling Molecular- and Supramolecular-Scale Properties for Molecular Devices more...

  • Friday | September 25, 26 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall pictures
    Chemistry Colloquium –Professor Paul Wender, Stanford University,
    Thursday:  The Chemistry-Medicine Continuum Part I: New Strategies For Breaching Biological Barriers And Overcoming Resistant Disease
    Friday:  The Chemistry-Medicine Continuum Part II: Synthetic and Biological Studies on Latent HIV/AIDS Virus, Cancer, and Cognition
    more...

  • Friday | September 19 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Dr. Bruce Garrett EMSL, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Dynamical Nucleation Theory: A Molecular-Scale Approach to New Particle Formation more...

  • Friday | September 12 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium –Professor Peter Rossky, University of Texas at Austin, Hydration at the Nanoscale more...

  • Friday | September 5 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Dr. Paul DaSilva-Jardine, Pfizer, The Evolution of Medicinal Chemistry Over the Last Five Years: From Cannabinoid Receptor Antagonists to Opiod Receptor Antagonists more...
  • Friday | May 9 | 2:45 pm | 548 Hamilton Hall
    Graduate Student Awards Reception more...

  • Friday | May 9 | 1:30 - 2:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Graduate Student Awards more...

  • Friday | May 2 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Eric Anslyn, University of Texas, Austin, Supramolecular Analytical Chemistry more...

  • Friday | April 25 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Hamilton Award Lecture – Professor Christopher T. Walsh, Harvard Medical School, Posttranslational Modification of Ribosomal Peptides to Antibiotic Scaffolds more...
  • Thursday | April 24 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hallpictures
    Hamilton Award Lecture – Professor Christopher T. Walsh, Harvard Medical School, Antibiotics: Past, Present, and Future more...

  • Friday | April 4 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Qiang Cui, University of Wisconsin-Madison, QM/MM Simulations: Recent Developments and Biophysical Applications more...

  • Friday | March 28 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor John L. Markley, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Metabolomics: New Technology and Applications to Investigations of Gene Knockouts in Arabidopsis and Red Blood Cells more...

  • Friday | March 14 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor James P. Morken, Boston College, Transition-Metal Catalyzed Enantioselective Diboration: An Enabling Tool for Organic Synthesis more...

  • Friday | March 7 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor John Klassen (Michael L. Gross Lectureship), University of Alberta, Structure and Stability of Protein Complexes in Solution and the Gas Phase Studied by Electrospray Ionization more...

  • Friday | February 29 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Zhenyu Zhang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory & University of Tennessee, First-Principles Design of Novel Nanomaterials for Hydrogen Generation and Storage more...

  • Friday | February 15 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Yi Lu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Designing Functional Metalloenzymes more...

  • Friday | January 25 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – COLLOQUIUM POSTPONED

  • Friday | January 18 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Xiaogang Peng, University of Arkansas, "Semiconductor Nanocrystal Emitters: Either Years Efforts" more...

  • Friday | December 14 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Felix N. Castellano, Bowling Green State University, "Molecular Inorganic Photonics" more...

  • Friday | November 30 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Vladimir Gevorgyan, The University of Illinois at Chicago, "Development of Novel Transition Metal-Catalyzed Synthetic Methodologies" more...

  • Friday | November 16
    Chemistry Colloquium – COLLOQUIUM CANCELLED

  • Friday | November 9 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Hung-wen (Ben) Liu, University of Texas, Austin, "Learning Nature’s Strategies for Making Unusual Sugars" more...

  • Friday | November 2 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Mary Kay Pflum, Wayne State University, "Chemical Approaches to Monitoring Protein Phosphorylation" more...

  • Friday | October 26 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Charles M. Lieber, Harvard University, "Nanowires, Nanoscience & Emerging Nanotechnologies" more...

  • Friday | October 19 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – COLLOQUIUM CANCELLED

  • Friday | October 12 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Kim D. Janda, Scripps Research Institute, "Traversing Chemistry and Immunology: A Few Vignettes" more...

  • Friday | September 28 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Oksana Lockridge, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, "Mass Spectrometry for Diagnosis of Exposure to Organophosphorus Pesticides" more...

  • Friday | September 21 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hallpictures
    Hamilton Award Lecture –Professor Shu Kobayashi, Department of Chemistry, School of Science, University of Tokyo, "New Dimensions of Acid and Base Catalysis" more...

  • Thursday | September 20 | 3:30 pm | 102 Hamilton Hall
    Hamilton Award Lecture –Professor Shu Kobayashi, Department of Chemistry, School of Science, University of Tokyo, "Organic Reactions in Water" more...

  • Friday | September 14 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Kay Brummond, University of Pittsburgh, "Rh(I)-Catalyzed Carbocyclization and Cyclocarbonylation Reactions of Cumulated Dienes" more...

  • Friday | September 7 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Jeffrey R. Long, University of California-Berkeley, "Hydrogen Storage in Microporous Coordination Solids with Exposed Metal Sites" more...

  • Friday | August 31| 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Adam J. Matzger, University of Michigan, "Crystallization in Two and Three Dimensions" more...

  • Monday | August 27 | University Campus
    2007 Fall Sessions Begin

  • Saturday | May 5 | 9:30 a.m. | Bob Devaney Sports Center
    May 2007 Commencement more...

  • Friday | May 4 | 1:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Dr. Peter O'Connor, Boston University School of Medicine more...

  • Friday | April 27 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Dr. Vladimir Gevorgyan, University of Illinois at Chicago more...

  • Friday | April 20 | 2:45 pm | Cromwell Room, 548 Hamilton Hall
    Graduate Student Awards - Reception

  • Friday | April 20 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Graduate Student Awards - Ceremony

  • Friday | April 13 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Dr. Joel Bowman, Emory University of Iowa more...

  • Tuesday | April 10 | 1:00 - 5:00 pm | East Campus
    EHS Safety Training: Radiation Safety more...

  • Friday | April 6 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Dr. Leonard MacGillivray, University of Iowa more...

  • Thursday | April 5 | 3:30 - 4:30 pm | 548 Hamilton Hall
    Inorganic Seminar by Joseph Brewer and Gonghua Wang

  • Thursday | April 5 | 2:00 - 5:00 pm | East Campus
    EHS Safety Training: X-Ray Safety more...

  • Wednesday | April 4 | 2:30 - 3:30 pm | 548 Hamilton Hall
    Analytical Seminar by Sara Basiaga: “Designing Miniature Instruments for the Mars Rovers"

  • Tuesday | April 3 | 4:00 - 5:00 pm | 548 Hamilton Hall
    Physical Seminar by Wanwan Huan: “Nd3+-Doped Titania Nanotubes”

  • Tuesday | April 3 | 12:30 - 1:30 pm | 130 Hamilton Hall
    Biochemistry Seminar by Jenni Copeland

  • Monday | April 2 | 2:00 - 4:30 pm | 548 Hamilton Hall
    Organic Seminar by Mark Cradduck: "Asymmetric Azirdination"

  • Saturday | March 31 | Marina Inn - South Sioux City
    Chemistry Booth at 2007 Big Red Road Show

  • Wednesday | March 28| 2:30 - 3:30 pm | 548 Hamilton Hall
    Analytical Seminar by Krina Joseph: “Are We In Climate Crisis? 420,000 Years Of Climate and Atomospheric History From Vostok”

  • Tuesday | March 27| 4:00 - 5:00 pm | 548 Hamilton Hall
    Physical Seminar by Michael Stutzman: “Surface Science of a NiO (100) Crystal"

  • Tuesday | March 27| 12:30 - 1:30 pm | 130 Hamilton Hall
    Biochemistry Seminar by By Wanbo Liu & Yunxuan Xie

  • Saturday | March 24 | 8:00 am -5:00 pm | East Campus & Hamilton Hall, City Campus
    Chemistry Lab Demonstrations at 2007 Nebraska Science Olympiad

  • Friday | March 23 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Dr. Shengbai Zhang, National Renewable Energy Laboratory more...

  • Wednesday | March 21 | 2:30 - 3:30 pm | 548 Hamilton Hall
    Analytical Seminar by Troy Wiegand and Jamie Stark

  • Tuesday | March 20 | 4:00 - 5:00 pm | 548 Hamilton Hall
    Physical Seminar by Zhanping Xu: “Ab Initio Calculations of Mechanical Properties of Nanotubes”

  • Tuesday | March 20 | 12:30 - 1:30 pm | 130 Hamilton Hall
    Biochemistry Seminar by Chris Frey and Lili Lou

  • Monday | March 19 | 2:00 - 4:30 pm | 548 Hamilton Hall
    Organic Seminar by Xu Zhang: “Chemically powered molecular motors”

  • Friday | March 9 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor John Vederas, University of Alberta. more...

  • Sunday | March 4 | Omaha Qwest Center
    Chemistry Booth at 2007 Big Red Road Show

  • Friday | March 2 | 3:30 pm | 112 Hamilton Hall
    Chemistry Colloquium – Professor Thomas E. Mallouk, Pennsylvania State University. more...

  • Thursday | February 15 | 3:30 - 4:30 pm | 548 Hamilton Hall
    Inorganic Seminar by Evan Hurley “Design, Syntheses and Characterization of Porphyrin-Based Supramolecular Structures”

  • Tuesday | February 13 | 4:00 - 5:00 pm | 548 Hamilton Hall
    Physical Seminar by Monica Kinde-Carson: “Investigating Local Motions in Damaged DNA using Solid State NMR”