
Rahaf Hussein
Date: June 6, 2025 | Time: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Location: TBD
Dissertation Title: Shellac as a Game-Changing Green Material for Impermeable Printed Electronics
Gage Mason
Date: July 10, 2025 | Time: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Location: TBD
Dissertation Title: Advancing Integrated Printed Organic Electronics through Sidechain Engineering and Sustainable Processing Strategies
Joseph Zurakowski
Date: July 30, 2025 | Time: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Location: RM 186 EH
Dissertation Title: Ligand-Driven Reactivity in Half-Sandwich Iron Diphosphine Complexes
Vlad Lytychevskyi
Date: April 30, 2025 | Time: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. | Location: RM 273 EH
Chair of Defense: Dr. Scott Harroun
Title: New approaches to old targets: Re-envisioning the synthesis of ibogaine and immunogenic glycolipids
Isabelle Dib
Date: May 5, 2025 | Time: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. | Location: RM 109 EH
Chair of Defense: Dr. John Trant
Title: Exploring the Biophysical Diffusive Dynamics of Vitamin E in Biomemetic Model Membrane Systems
Olivia Konrad
Date: June 3, 2025 | Time: 10:00 a.m - 12:00 p.m. | Location: RM 273 EH
Chair of Defense: Dr. Jim Green
Title: Synthesis and Properties of Liquid Crystalline Organic Dyes (TAP, DPP, and Benzothiadiazole Derivatives
Victoria Kis
Date: July 2, 2025 | Time: 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. | Location: RM 273 EH
Chair of Defense: Dr. Kenneth Ng
Title: Amino acid-derived self-immolative polymers (SIPs) used in the applications of drug carrier nanoparticles and 3D bioprinting
Hannah Jessop
Date: August 26, 2025 | Time: 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. | Location: RM 186 EH
Chair of Defense: Dr. Jim Green
Title: Designing New Soft and Stretchable Power Supply Units for Improving e-Textiles
Maria Khoury
Date: September 17, 2025 | Time: 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Location: RM 273 EH
Chair of Defense: Dr. Scott Harroun
Title: Advancing Multiplex Virus Detection: Development of Armored RNA Reference Materials and Optimization of LAMP Assays
"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought." – Albert Szent-Györgyi
Piumi Kulatunga
Date: May 9, 2025 | Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Location: RM 186 EH
Gloria D'Amaral
Date: May 23, 2025 | Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Location: TBD
Sima Ghamselou
Date: July 11, 2025 | Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Location: TBD
Angela Awada-Roberto
Date: August 1, 2025 | Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Location: TBD
Dr. Ali Nazemi - Université du Québec à Montréal
Date: July 10, 2025 | Time: 10:00 a.m - 11:00 a.m. | Location: TBD
11th International Meeting of the Union for Compact Accelerator-driven Neutron Sources
"A seminar is not just a lecture, but a conversation that builds bridges between minds." – Anonymous