WISE Chem - Celebrating Women Chemists

The monthly Celebrating Women Chemists lunch seminar series provides a forum for networking across the various subdivisions of chemistry and fosters a sense of community among participants.

These presentations are an opportunity for women chemists to share information about their unique career paths in a way to help inform students and postdocs in our department on the variety of opportunities they can pursue.

Additionally, to help prepare for the Graduate Student Research Symposium , students in their 3rd or 4th year are invited to deliver a short presentation on their research to their peers. Mentoring opportunities are facilitated by informal interactions among students and faculty in this friendly non-research environment.

If you would like to present a seminar, contact Raihana Afroz.

Past Speakers:

2024-2025 Schedule

Sept 13: Dr. Kade Head-Marsden, Assistant Professor, UMN Chemistry
Oct 23: Dr. Zijie Beryl Xia, Director of Analytical Services, Claros Technologies
Nov 20: Dr. Kyle Bantz, Associate Professor, UMN Chemistry
Feb 20: Dr. Hannah Kenagy, Assistant Professor, UMN Chemistry
Mar 27: Dr. Melissa Ramirez, Assistant Professor, UMN Chemistry

2023-2024 Schedule

Sept 29: Dr. Jessica Hoover, Assistant Professor, UMN Chemistry
Nov 8: Dr. Jodi Ogilvie, Lab & Research Safety Manager and Chemical Hygiene Officer, UMN Health, Safety, and Risk Management
Feb 2: Dr. Jorden Johnson & Dr. Alina Zdechlik, Patent Agents, Mueting Raasch Group
Mar 15: Dr. Kim Ha, Associate Professor of Chemistry, St. Catherine University

2022-2023 Schedule

Oct 25: Dr. Samantha Houchlei, Assistant Director of General Chemistry, UMN Chemistry
Nov 8: Dr. Annabelle Watts, Managing Director, NSF Center for Sustainable Polymers
Feb 15: Dr. Kimberly Shultz, Researcher and Product Developer, 3M
Mar 8: Dr. Peg Lonnquist, Assertiveness Workshop
April 25: Dr. Laurie Fink, Chair of Science, Science Museum of Minnesota

2021-2022 Schedule

Sept 23: Dr. Gwen Bailey, Assistant Professor, UMN Chemistry
Oct 29: Dr. Sapna Sarupria, Associate Professor, UMN Chemistry
Nov 19: Dr. Danielle Watt, Director of the Office of Biomedical Graduate Research, Education and Training (BGREAT) at the University of Minnesota, Medical School
Feb11: Dayeeta Saha, Product Specialist/Engineer at Bruker Nano Inc.
Mar 8: Dr. Sarah Wegworth, Content Specialist, Alchemie
April: 3rd Year Practice Talks

2020-2021 Schedule

Nov 19: Transferable Skills Workshop, Whitney Moore, CSE Career Center
Jan 20: Jessica Lamb, UMN, Professor
Feb 15: Yangguang Ou, University of Vermont, Professor
Mar 16: Trisha Miller, Sandia National Labs, Systems Research Analyst
April 30: Janaya Sachs (Tonks group), Margaret Clapham (Frontiera and Douglas groups), Celina Harris (Penn group), U of M, Graduate Student Research Symposium Practice Talks
May 7: Cecilia Douma (Bowser group), Eliza Herrero (Buhlmann group), Yoon-Jung Jang (Hillmyer group) U of M, Graduate Student Research Symposium Practice Talks
June 25: Xin Yi See, , Eastman Chemical Company, Research Chemist

2019-2020 Schedule

Sept 17: Courtney Roberts, UMN, Professor
Oct 17: Jennifer Strehlau, Medtronic, Senior Chemist
Nov 14: Audrey Meyer, Boston Scientific, Senior Process Engineer
Jan 23: Nicole Bousu, H.B. Fuller, Senior Scientist
Feb 20: Sarah Wegwerth, Alchemie, Content Specialist
Postponed: Hannah Bearinger, BRIGHT Research Partners, Clinical Research Consultant

2018-2019 Schedule

Sept 12: Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran, UMN, Professor
Oct 22: Sally Hed Dahlquist, ImmunoChemistry Technologies, President & Chief Manager
Nov 14: Christine Luscombe, Uni. Washington, Seattle, Professor
Jan 16: Laura Babcock, Minnesota Technical Assistance Programme (MnTAP), Director
Feb 11: Microaggression Workshop v2, Lee Penn, UMN Professor
Mar 12: Cora Leibig, Chromatic 3D Materials, Founder & CEO
Apr 26: Emily Que, UT Austin, Professor
May 7: Angela Carlson (Topczewski group), Monica Ohnsorg (Bates and Reineke group), Rebeca Rodriguez (Haynes group), U of M, 3rd year Practice Talks
May 14: Julia Early (Lodge group), Rachel Swedin (Blank group), U of M, 3rd year Practice Talks
May 21: Jiayi He (Haynes group), Cynthia Pyles (Massari group), U of M, 3rd year Practice Talks
June 25: Assertiveness Workshop, Peg Lonnquist, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Executive Director

2017-2018 Schedule

Sept 21: Mona Minkara, Post-doctoral Research Fellow (Siepmann group)
Oct 27: Sarah Reisman, Caltech, Professor
Nov 8: Greta Wegner, R&D Systems, Senior Director
Dec 5: Graco Inc.
Jan 12: Microaggression workshop, Lee Penn, UMN, Professor
Feb 5: Kolby White, 3M, Senior Chemist
Feb 28: Brenda Case, Leadership Alliance, Special Projects Manager
Mar 13: Megan Fieser, Post-doctoral Research Fellow (Tolman group)
Apr 6: Christine Thomas, Ohio State University
May 8: Anna Luke (Tolman group), Kajari Bera (Frontiera group), Adeline Espinasse (Carlson group), U of M, 3rd year Practice Talks
May 14: Stephanie Mitchell (Carlson group), Beth Dewing (Mahanthappa group), U of M, 3rd year Practice Talks
May 21: Constance Anderson (Douglas group), Debmalya Ray (Gagliardi group), U of M, 3rd year Practice Talks
Jul 16: Leah Witus, Macalester College, Professor
Aug 28: Elena Koltun, Revolution Medicines, Director of Medicinal Chemistry

2016-2017 Schedule

June 22: Diana Mayweather, UMN, Senior Laboratory Services Coordinator
July 20: Jennifer Henderson, UMN, CSP Director of Education, Outreach, and Diversity
Aug 15: Jodi Ogilvie, UMN, Public Health Specialist
Sept 6: Mari Lee, Environmental Protection Agency
Sept 28: Anne Hall, UMN, Office for Technology Commercialization
Nov 4: Nicole Bechtold, 3M, Regulatory affairs
Dec 21: Donde Anderson, Valspar
Jan 11: Emily Pelton, UMN, Adjunct faculty
Mar 15: Karen Beckman, Merchant and Gould P.C., Patent lawyer / Marie Vanderlaan, 3M, Patent attorney
May 9: Courtney Elwell (Tolman group) / Xin Yi See (Tonks group), U of M, 3rd year Practice Talks
May 24: Bianca Ramirez (Lu group) / Zhe Tan (Reineke group), U of M, 3rd year Practice Talks
Jun 13: Letitia Yao, UMN, NMR facility manager
Jun 29: Lisa Balbes, Technical writer and editor

2015-2016 Schedule

Sept 21: Intel
Oct 1: Lyndal Jensen, Ecolab
Nov 4: Kathleen Shafer, 3M
Dec 8: Susanna Remillard, WuXi
Jan 12: Kari McGee, 3M
Feb 3: Intel
Mar 1: Anna Komor, U of M Chem, Science Mentors (Que group)
Mar 24: Jacqui Tehranchi, Beckman
Apr 27: Maria Miranda, 3M
May 18: Hanna Macaranas (Tolman group) and Emily Keller (Frontiera group), 3rd-year practice talks

2014-2015 Schedule

Sept 15: BASF
Oct 27: Erin Carlson
Nov 6: Jennifer Laaser (Lodge group)
Dec 11: Vivien Feng (Augsburg College)
Feb 24: Deirdre Manion-Fischer (Arriaga group)
Mar 16: Sadie Otte (Douglas group)

2013-2014 Schedule

Sept 24: Renee Frontiera
Oct 29: Elizabeth Hill, Dow Chemical, Work Life Effectiveness
Feb 20: Sarah Pound (Douglas group)
Mar 26: Sarah Wegwerth (Douglas group)
Apr 17: Haley Phillips (Reineke group)
May 29: Anna Komor (Que group)

2012-2013 Presenters

Sep 14: Jodi Ogilvie (Douglas group)
Oct 24: international research experiences
Jan 17: Katie Hurley (Haynes group)
Mar 2: Solaire Finkenstaedt-Quinn (Haynes group)
Apr 18: Deirdre Manion-Fischer (Arriaga group)
May 28: Jennifer Soltis (Penn group)

2011-2012 Presenters

July 28: Kyle Bantz (Haynes group) - lessons from COACh
Sept/Oct: Theresa Reineke
Feb: Zahra Sohrabpour (Massari group)
Mar: Allison Dzubak (Gagliardi group)
Apr: Makenzie Provorse (Gao group)
May: Charuta Palsuledesai (Distefano group)

2010-2011 Presenters

Sep 30: planning meeting
Nov 18: Mallory Richards (Hoye group)
Feb 17: Penny Beuning, Northeastern University
Mar 10: Melissa Maurer-Jones (Haynes group)
March spring break: Jenny Schuttlefield, SHARK
Apr 21: Bess Vlaisavljevich (Gagliardi group)
May 10: Katie McGarry (Douglas group)

2009-2010 Presenters

Sep 21: Judith Giordan, ACS tour speaker
PDFs of Judy's slides on Mentoring and Women Leaders and Entrepreneurs
Oct 14: Rita Majerle, visiting professor from Hamline
Nov 3: Connie Lu
Jan 13: Grayce Theryo (Hillmyer group)
Mar 18: Sarah Page (McNeill/Arnold group)
April: Susan Brown (Hoye group)

2008-2009 Presenters

Sept. 24: Mari Titcombe (Roberts group) - Mari's Stoves for Njombe project
Nov 18: Parent Panel
Dec 11: Jane Wissinger
Feb 4: Laura Gagliari
Apr 23: Susie Emond (Hoye group)
May: Britt Peterson (McNeill group)

2007-2008 Presenters

Oct: 9 Valerie Pierre
Nov 7: Kristi Curry Rogers, in combination with the IT Pizza Lunch
Dec 13: holiday event
Feb 28: Elizabeth Lugert and Lee Penn, Adobe tutorials
Mar 19: Jennifer Lowe (Hillmyer group)
Apr: 29 Nicole Settergren (Buhlmann group) and Chekesha Liddell, IT Distinguished Woman Speaker
May 19: Katie Maerzke (Siepmann group)

2006-2007 Presenters

Oct: 19 Katy Splan (Musier-Forsyth group)
Nov 16: Lynn Weyer (Forsyth group)
Dec 12: Emily (Skowronek) Resar (Bowser group)
Feb 15: Chunze Lai (Buhlmann group)
Mar 20: Amanda Bialke (Hoye group)
May 10: Kelly Anderson (Siepmann group)
May 30: The Gender Chip Project movie screening

2005-2006 Presenters

Christy Haynes
My Vo (Musier-Forsyth group)
Jasmine Erbs (Penn group)
Betsy Edhlund (McNeill group)
Elizabeth Lugert (Buhlmann group)
Alicia Peterson (McNeill group)

2004-2005 Presenters

Anne Boreen (McNeill group)
Kari McGee (Mann group)
Yini Wang (Hoye group)
Leila Albers (DiStefano group)
Julia Phillips, Donaldson lecturer
Angie Eder (Arriaga group)

2003-2004 Presenters

Amy Anschutz (Penn group)
Jia Liu (Hsung group)
Amanda Nienow (Roberts group)
Angela DeGreeff (McNeill group)
Kathleen Schreck (Hillmyer group)

2002-2003 Presenters

Sarah Schmidtke (Blank group)
Karen Switek (Hillmyer group)
Jamie Klappa (McNeill group)
Laurie Breyfogle (Tolman/Hillmyer groups)
Ann McNally (McNeill group)

2001-2002 Presenters

Tamara Kale (Distefano group)
Mary Engler (Forsyth group)
Anne Reynolds (Tolman group)
Carolyn Brauer (K. Leopold group)
Nicole Boaen (Hillmyer group)
Jessica Allen (Ellis group)

2000-2001 Presenters

Sherri Hunt (K. Leopold group)
Hollie Lewis (Hoye group)
Bethany Kormos (Cramer group)
Lakshmi Devi Kesavan (Gao group)
Dongfeng Qi (Distefano group)
Abbey Rosen (Musier-Forsyth group)

1999-2000 Presenters

Maria Nagan (Cramer group)
Amy Dounay (Forsyth group)
Lauren Kaune (Munson group)
Donna Staarup (Gladfelter group)
Heather Sklenicka (Hsung group)

1998-1999 Presenters

Michelle Douskey (Munson group)
Kirsten Granum (Hsung group)
Penny Beuning (Musier-Forsyth group)
Feben Gobena (Que group)
Denise Fiacco (K. Leopold group)
Rebecca Michelsen (Roberts group)

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