Posts by Alex Madonik

March 18, 2021 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm PT In Collaboration With AWIS EB – register HERE In this career development conversation with Dr. Barbara Smith, we will discuss “Resilience”. Come prepared by watching this 3 min video below. We have all tested and grown our resilience over the last year. Let’s reflect on…

Friday, March 19th, 11 AM PT Register HERE Sponsor:  UC Botanical Garden Plant scents from flowers, fruits, leaves, or tree barks are composed of complex mixtures of volatile organic compounds. People have used these fragrant mixtures since ancient times to produce lotions, oils and perfumes. While contemporary perfumes and other scented products consist, to a large…

TODAY – Tuesday March 9th – 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm – Online Zoom Event Christopher Olivares, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Berkeley Register HERE Microbes are fantastic chemists that can alter the fate of contaminants, but co-occurring contaminants can inhibit or stimulate microbial processes. In this talk we will look at case studies with per-…

Monday, March 8th, 2021 – 5 PM (ACS California & AWIS East Bay Joint Virtual Event) This Year’s Theme: #ChooseToChallege A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions – all day, every day. We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality.…

Thursday, March 4th, 2021 – 7 PM FREE event – register HERE.

Tuesday, March 2nd, 5 PM PST Dr. Candice Bridge, Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Central Florida and the National Center for Forensic Science There’s still time to register for this Zoom event. Sexual assaults are an unfortunate reality in modern society, which includes situations in which the assailant is known or unknown.…

Prof. Louise Berben – Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 – 6 to 7 PM PST Register HERE – Zoom link will be sent on the day of the event. Abstract: Small molecule transformations, such as CO2 or N2 reduction, in biology and solar fuels chemistry require multi-electron and multi-proton reaction sequences. The goal of synthetically realizing…

Wednesday, January 13, 2021 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Carsten Prasse, assistant professor of environmental health and engineering RSVP HERE!