The Yale Chemistry Symposium is an annual event to start off the academic year during which we welcome the newest cohort of graduate students and orient them to our research.
The symposium includes a keynote presentation by one of our faculty, graduate student presentations, and the announcement of teaching and research awards. After the symposium, graduate students present their research in a poster session in the great hallway outside of Sterling Chemistry Laboratory (SCL) lecture hall 110. Food and beverages will be served during the poster session.
First-Years Orientation Schedule (For First-Years and Volunteers)
9:00 a.m. First-years arrive, sign in, breakfast in SCL Great Hall
9:35 a.m. Welcome address in SCL 110
9:45 a.m. Library resources and services by Andy Shimp
10:00 a.m. Meeting with Patrick Loria, Director of Graduate Studies
10:30 a.m. Tours and portrait photos
12:00 p.m. Lunch for first-years in SCL Great Hall
Yale Chemistry Symposium Schedule (All are Welcome)
1:00 p.m. Welcome address, teaching and research awards, first-year introductions (SCL 110)
2:00 p.m. Tony Deziel, Inorganic Chemistry, Hazari Lab
“Comparative Studies of CO2 Insertion into Pincer Supported Palladium Alkyl Bonds”
2:15 p.m. Eddie Knab, Biophysical Chemistry, Davis Lab
“Chemical Interactions Modulate Peptide Stability in Cells”
2:30 p.m. Jessie Mohsen, Chemical Biology, Slavoff Lab
“Characterization of GndA: A Small ORF Nested Within a Canonical Reading Frame”
2:45 p.m. Keynote speaker presentation by Scott Miller, Irénée du Pont Professor of Chemistry
3:30 p.m. Coffee break in SCL Great Hall
4:00 p.m. Hannah Nedzbala, Inorganic Chemistry, Mayer Lab
“ALD TiO2 Films on Silicon Undergo PCET at Moderate Potentials in Protic Organic Media”
4:15 p.m. Phillipps Hutchison, Theoretical Chemistry, Hammes-Schiffer Lab
“Concerted PCET to a Graphite Adsorbed Metalloporphyrin Occurs by Band to Bond Electron Redistribution”
4:30 p.m. Jaehoo Lee, Organic Chemistry, Newhouse Group
“Studies Towards the Total Synthesis of Xylogranin B”
4:45 p.m. Olivia Moss, Physical Chemistry, Johnson Lab
“Capture and Characterization of Nascent UV Photodecomposition Products with Mass-Selective Cryogenic Trapping Techniques”
5:10 p.m. Poster session in SCL Great Hall
Dinner for Invited Guests (Graduate Students and Faculty Only)
6:30 p.m. Dinner and social in CRB Courtyard
This year’s YCS Co-Chairs are Katie Rinaolo, Sadie Wolfarth, and Ashleigh Purvis.