UWF - Department of Chemistry - William D. Smart Seminars in Chemistry

The William D. Smart Seminar Series in Chemistry was established in 2005 by William "Bill" and Mary Smart. This endowment enables the Department of Chemistry to bring distinguished chemical scientists to campus to present and discuss cutting-edge scientific research as well as issues of interest to an educated public. In 2011, Mary Smart provided an additional gift to the Smart Seminar Series in Chemistry Endowment which allows for expansion of the seminar series to include additional speakers, international scientists, and much more. (Bill and Mary Smart in photo at left)

William D. Smart Seminar Series in Chemistry
Year	Speaker	Seminar Title
2007	Sir Harry Kroto Florida State University	Architecture in NanoSpace
2009	Sir Fraser Stoddart Northwestern University	Chemistry and Molecular Nanotechnology in Tomorrow’s World
2010	Dr. Daniel Nocera Massachusetts Institute of Technology	The Chemistry of Solar Energy and Its Storage for the Non-Legacy World
2011	Dr. Michael Summers University of Maryland, Baltimore County	Structural Studies of Retroviral Genome Packaging
2011	Dr. Ken Raymond University of California, Berkeley	Confinement and Catalysis in Chiral, Self-Assembled, Nanoscale Flasks

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