Mon Apr 28 after 12 pm

All course grades will be completed, including your seminar (with feedback).  You will be able to pick up all at my office.

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Fri Apr 18   CoSE Student Research Symposium  1-3 pm Farris Center Gym

All will attend this long enough to critique one poster (other than chemistry).  See Bb template.

If you are also presenting a poster, take a break from it for 15 - 20 min long enough to critique a poster.
Blame me for your brief absence.

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Fri Apr 11     All abstracts and titles posted here.

Use this link to access the peer critique page.

1 pm speakers

Hallie Brown   
C-H Bond Activation with Cu Catalyst

Liz Hicklin  
Design, synthesis, and activity of N-heterocyclic carbene ligand for enhanced electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide

2 pm speakers

Rylee Browning   
Use of Thio Ureas for Drug Treatment of Schistosomiasis

Ingram Pile
Photogenic Amino Acid Radical Generation and Oxidative Stress

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Fri Apr 4     All abstracts and titles posted here.

Use this link to access the peer critique page.

1 pm speakers

Molly Johnson   
Chemically Diverse Disquaramide-based Drug Libraries: Assessing the Effects of Steric
Hindrance and Polarity as Antileishmanial Properties

Eva Palmer   
Neglected Tropical Diseases: Synthesizing Urea Analogs for Schistosomiasis

2 pm speakers

Noah Taylor   
Reduction of CO2 using Bis Imidazole NHCs

Haley Cox   
Exploring ruthenium carbonyl complexes for potential fuel sources through CO2 reduction

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Fri Mar 28   Spring Break

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Fri Mar 21     All abstracts and titles posted here.

Use this link to access the peer critique page.

1 pm speakers

Kattrina Johnson    (moved here from Mar 14)
Glucose 6 dehydrogenase deficiency

Matthew Ratnaransy
The Relation between Structure and Smell in Organic Compounds

Dasha Young
The Effect of Chlamydiae in the Social Amoeba D. giganteum

2 pm speakers

Imani Mbong
Vitamin A Receptors and Integrins: How it Can Support our Cell Development

Katie Hicklin
Synthesis of (arylamino)disquaramide compounds: A potential class of

anti-leishmaniasis drugs

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Fri Mar 14    All abstracts and titles posted here.

Use this link to access the peer critique page.

1 pm speakers

Mia Clark     
Drug abuse liability and psychostimulant effect of MBDB and its enantiomers in C57BL/6 Mice

Gavin Johnson

Viewing Cable Bacteria Through Electrical Imaging

2 pm speakers

Ariel Rodriguez-Gutierrez
Analyzing Organometallic Electrocatalysts and Their Ability to Reduce Captured CO2

Carter Bierbaum
New methods for the synthesis of important enyne molecular building blocks

Fri Feb 21

If we are limited to remote instruction due to weather, the seminar will be via Zoom.

To earn credit you must join with camera on.

Zoom link will be posted here if needed.

Reminder:  your final 20 min slide deck is due in Bb by Feb 27.  

I was pleased with a lot of what you did on Friday.  Most tried to explain using nice figures.  Otherwise busy slides were animated stepwise.  Most limited the amount of text.  I have some final points to apply for your 20 min talk.

• “You can see…” was stated many times, but the speaker did not show us how we might “see” it.  Speakers need to point at their specific piece of data (spectral line, bar graph feature, trend in tabulated data, etc.) and explain clearly how the data show something.

• Odd measurements (cyclic voltammetry, viscosity, protein purification methods, etc.) are not among the normal experiences for most students.  These deserve a brief introduction to explain how they work.

• I was amazed at the number of people that went way long.  These was even after all of you gave answers from Cramer’s “How to give a talk talk” like: it’s “disrespectful,” “rude,” “demonstrates poor planning.”  I know the timer is annoying, but anywhere else and people would get up and leave the room.  Talk about embarrassing.  They have places to be, but they gave you some of their time and attention.  DO NOT go long.

• Work hard to make the slide title be the only text on the slide, aside from figure legends or peak assignments.

• References belong on the slide at the bottom.  Seminar references do not all go on a final slide at the end of the seminar.  No DOI’s, these are pointless.  You must have    First author name (at least), journal title, year, page number.  

• Some insist on using default choices powerpoint offers for slide formats.  You can see how this constrained their figures to be too small.  See the advice posted on our CHEM 4112 website.

Fri Feb 7  Speaking order as shown above

Reminder: due today in Bb your 150 word abstract and title. 

Today's Zoom link     

1 pm talks video     2 pm talks video        

https://uca-edu.zoom.us/j/8834692445?pwd=VDYwSjloOUdlOVFWdVZ4R3VKT004Zz09

Be sure you are able to use the laser pointer in Powerpoint.  You do not need to come to the classroom.  

Be wherever you have GOOD wireless.   I will be in my office today 3 - 5 pm if you want to pick up old graded papers.

Thu Feb 6    3 min slides due in Bb 

Feedback from fixed slides.  I am looking for major improvement in the next 3 min talks.

• Figures still way too small.  WHY aren't figures (spectra, etc.) blown up to fill the slide?

• Subscripts!  We're chemists.  We at least should use them when we write formulas.

• Slide title  ought to be the only text on the slide.  We never use the Chart title in ppt.

• Lot's more text and even smaller figures.  Don't

• Grainy low quality images.  If you don't know how to capture good crisp images, see me.
  This is the difference between a professional clean talk and just a so so presentation thrown together at the last minute.

Some are still thinking of their slides as though they are lecture notes.  Like the boring text-heavy slides so many of you get from your
professors.  Seminars are not like that.  Seminars are designed to be easy to digest.

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Be sure and check the revised 20 min speaker schedule below.  Four people had to juggle their times.

Re. your next 3 min talk on Feb 7, some people are confused with what I mean by "Student Choice" for this one.
Most people use the next 3 min talk to practice 3 of your slides you will use for your 20 min talk.  Remember, the next one will be via Zoom.
I will send the link that we all will use.  You will also send your slide deck to me ahead of time so I can print them out to write on.

Feedback re. your "How to Give a Talk" assignment.  Please address in your 20 min talk. Students w/o Bb scores for this did not put their name in the file itself, so you'll have to go to "assignment claim" and sift through to find yours.

Outline: Have one or not?    Too many students do not "circle back" and tie it all together.  An outline is one way to do this.  I don't don't mean a boring, throw away one like:  I. Introduction   II. Data   III. Conclusions...duh.   But I think 3-4 key points continuously reiterated ("interim conclusions"  as Cramer says) are essential.

I personally find the outline a chance for me to stop and catch my breath.  I get nervous and tend to speak quickly.  The outline FORCES me to slow and consider what I just said and how it relates to what I am about to show.

The point is I have to see something from you in the 20 min talk.  I will look for some kind of unifying summary, and a logical flow throughout.  Another effective unifying theme (outline of sorts) is a single diagram that is revisited frequently, maybe each time to talk about something else.  But this allows logical verbal (if not also pictorial) transitions between ideas, connections.

Wed Jan 15

Fix these slides due by 6 pm in Blackboard
Fixed slides comments from last spring.
Some were very creative, improving the slides in unique ways, capturing and adding to the main ideas.  Thanks for the effort.
Some intelligently used color to connect ideas, drawing the  eyes to relationships on the slide.
Amazingly, some people added MORE text to slides that had WAY too much text originally.  Don't.  Discipline yourself to use less or none.
Some added Figure captions.  This we do in papers.  These were very hard to read on the slides.  Slides have bold large titles, not captions.
Remember a title ought to succinctly (5 words or less) convey the take home of the slide.

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Tue Jan 14

"How to give a talk" assignment due by 6 pm in Blackboard.

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FYI PubChem allows you to also DRAW any molecule you want, so you could do a space filling or other image
of a molecule that is new and not available easily on the internet.

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Fri Jan 10   Weather and family event prevent us from meeting F2F.   Please see my email dated Jan 8.

Comments about student talks from last spring

Tips on slides   what I would have said in class

Three assignments are due next (all posted in BB - graded work)
NAMES IN SUBMITTED FILES, PLEASE!  When your names are missing, I have no idea whose page is whose once these are printed.

• • "How to Give a Talk" talk    due Jan 14 by 6 pm

• Fix these slides  due Jan 15 by 6 pm 

• First 3-slide-3-min talk on General Chemistry topic (see my email).  Your 3  content slides are due to me by Jan 16 at 6 pm in Bb.  

Read the syllabus