Events and Seminars

Upcoming Events

11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Wednesday, January 14
Chemistry & Physics Building (CPB) 1st floor lobby

All College of Science students are invited to our Maverick Stampede Spring 2026 back-to-school event featuring free hot cocoa, coffee, cookies, and COS swag! There will also be a science student organization fair where you can meet members of various science student orgs and find out how to get involved.

3-5 p.m. Friday, January 23
Science & Engineering Innovation & Research (SEIR) Building 2nd floor atrium

All College of Science students are invited to this informal mixer where students can meet College of Science faculty and staff members and ask any questions about department and College programs. Meet your friends and make some new friends, too! Refreshments will be served.

 
12-1 p.m. Tuesday, February 4 (tentative)
Science & Engineering Innovation & Research (SEIR) Building, Room TBA

All College of Science students are invited to this informative session about ways that you can use your science degree to find the job you want. Food will be served. 
 
February 23-27
Various locations; events, dates and locations TBA 

The College of Science will host its annual Science Week, which features special events which celebrate the achievements of College of Science students, faculty and alumni.  
12-1 p.m. Wednesday, February 25
Science & Engineering Innovation & Research (SEIR) Building, Room TBA

All College of Science students are invited to this informative session; agenda TBA. Food will be served.

3-6 p.m. Thursday, March 19
Central Library 6th floor atrium

Everyone is invited to the 2nd Ethics Bowl, a fun event where teams of 3-4 students will go head-to-head tackling real-world medical ethics dilemmas relevant to medical school and healthcare training. The teams will present their argument for each scenario and a panel of judges will score the responses. The winning team advances to the next round until one champion is crowned. Sponsored by the College of Science Office of Health Professions, UTA Libraries, and the Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) student organization.

12-1 p.m. Wednesday, March 25
Science and Engineering Innovation and Research (SEIR) Building, Room TBA

All College of Science students are invited to this informative session; agenda TBA. Food will be served.

12-2:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 7
Maverick Activities Center, Room TBA

The Office of Health Professions hosts the annual Spring Swing fair, which gives students the opportunity to meet with admissions staff, directors, and deans from health professions schools, colleges, and programs. Represented programs include medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, optometry, physician assistant, chiropractic, nursing, public health, military medicine, test prep services, and more.

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.

October 10, 2025

3:00 - 4:00 pm

Stephan Hagspiel and Holly Bosher 

Evonik

“Be Part of Something Special at Evonik”

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"Chemical Recycling of PET: Transforming Waste into Value"

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October 17, 2025

12:00 - 1:00 pm

Molly Atkinson

University of North Texas

“Bridging the Academia-Industry Divide: Preparing Undergraduate Students for Roles in Chemical Industry”

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October 24, 2025

3:00 - 4:00 pm

Xin Cui

University of North Texas

“From Structural Simplicity to Functionalities: Discovering Selective and Sustainable Catalysis”

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October 31, 2025

TBD

 
 
November 7, 2025 NO SEMINAR   

November 14, 2025

3:00 - 4:00 pm

Smiata Mohanty

Oklahoma State
 
“TBA”

 

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November 21, 2025

3:00 - 4:00 pm

Todd Hudnall

 

 
Baylor University

 

"Breathing new life into old compounds in pursuit of stable diborylcarbenes – and what about BOB?"”

 

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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

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“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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