Faculty Commons

The Faculty Commons is a faculty-only meeting place to promote fellowship, collaboration and scholarship, held on a monthly basis to encourage Wayne State researchers to mingle and discuss topics of mutual interest. The upcoming schedule is as follows:

March 21, 3 p.m. - “Linguistics”, 5057 Woodward, Conference Room 6202

April 11, 3 p.m. - “Grant Writing for Private Sector Funding”, 5057 Woodward, Conference Room 6202

May 9, 3 p.m. - “Children’s Issues”, Children’s Hospital, Board Room D

Suggestions for future topics are always welcome. Please send your topic ideas to Nancy Christ, Director of Interdiciplinary Research, nchrist@med.wayne.edu.

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Tuesday, March 21 at 2:30 p.m. in the Welcome Center Auditorium:
Speaker: Dr. Claudio Verani, WSU, Department of Chemistry
Topic: Bioinspired Complexes of Phenol-containing Ligands: From Soft Materials to Ground-State Switches.

Tuesday, April 4 at 2:30 p.m. in the Welcome Center Auditorium:
Speaker: Dr. Joseph Hupp from Northwestern University
Topic: Adventures with Nanostructured Molecular Materials

Tuesday, April 18 at 2:30 p.m. in the Welcome Center Auditorium:
Speaker: Dr. Evi Goldfield from WSU, Department of Chemistry
Topic: Molecular Hydrogen Inside Carbon Nanotubes: Quantum Sieving, Rotational Structure and Extreme Confinement

Tuesday, May 2 at 2:30 p.m. in the Welcome Center Auditorium:
Speaker: Dr. Cathy Murphy from the University of South Carolina
Topic: TBA

Tuesday, May 16 at 2:30 p.m. in the Welcome Center Auditorium:
Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Brock from WSU, Department of Chemistry
Topic: Synthesis and Properties of Nanoparticles and Nanostructures: From Phosphide Nanoparticles to Chalcogenide Aerogels

Tuesday, June 6 at 2:30 p.m., Site to be Announced
Speaker: Dr. Gregory Lanza from the University of Washington
Topic: TBA

WSU Complex Systems Group

Tuesday, March 21
1-3 p.m. in the Undergraduate Library Community Room (Room 3120)

Tuesday, April 18
1-3 p.m. in the Undergraduate Library Community Room (Room 3120)

Tuesday, May 16
1-3 p.m. (Location TBA)