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:

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.

Nano@Wayne

Tuesday, April 18 at 2:30 p.m. in the Welcome Center Auditorium:
Speaker: Dr. Evi Goldfield, 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, University of South Carolina
Topic: Synthesis, Assembly and Reactivity of Metallic Nanorods

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

WSU Complex Systems Group

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

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