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Student Hosted Colloquia

The Student Hosted Colloquia (SHC) are seminars that appeal to a broad scientific audience. This series, entirely run by graduate students in the Department of Chemistry, aims to select speakers who are engaging, enthusiastic, and interested in sharing their scientific knowledge and research with our students. The success of this program is dependent upon sponsorship by our industry partners. Seminars in the SHC series are free and open to the public.

The financial sustainability of this series is bolstered by the generosity of our industry partners. To learn more about becoming a sponsor of this series, please contact chemistry-externalrelations [at] stanford.edu (chemistry-externalrelations[at]stanford[dot]edu).

Department Seminar Program Policy and Guidelines

2025-2026 SHC Handbook

Upcoming Events

May
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Date
Monday, May 18, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium (STLC 111)
About the Seminar "Light-driven fuel production at passivated silicon photoelectrodes"Coatings and termination strategies for silicon photoelectrodes are cru
June
1
Date
Monday, June 1, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium (STLC 111)
About the Seminar"Chemically and Financially Sustainable Methods for Chemical Synthesis"Sustainability has become

Past Events

Date
Monday, October 28, 2024, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium 111
About the Seminar Drug Discovery: How We Got Here and Where We Might Be GoingOver the past 35 years, drug discovery has gone from carbon-paper forms and no e
Date
Monday, October 14, 2024, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium 111 (Hybrid on Zoom)
About the Seminar Chemistry in art, art in Chemistry, and the spiritual ground they share Chemistry is an essential tool for making art.
Date
Monday, October 7, 2024, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium 111
About the Seminar Mobilizing Earth’s BaseRenewable energy and emissions abatement technologies will need to be complemented by multi-gigaton per year (Gton/y
Date
Friday, May 24, 2024, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall 114
About the SeminarLocal Distortions and Long-Range Polarity in Pyrochlore Oxides from Total ScatteringThe pyrochlore structure exhibits myriad of technologically r
Date
Monday, May 20, 2024, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall 114
About the Seminar Molecular Glues & Bifunctional Compounds: Therapeutic Modalities Based on Induced Proximity Stuart L. Schreiber (1, 2, 3)
Date
Monday, May 13, 2024, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall 114
About the Seminar Particulate methane monooxygenase structure in situUnder the mounting threat of climate change, increasing atmospheric methane concentratio
Date
Monday, May 6, 2024, 3:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall 114
About the Seminar Synthesis of Two-Dimensional Lanthanide ChalcogenidesThis talk will focus on three related classes of magnetic lanthanide (Ln) chalcogenide
Date
Monday, April 29, 2024, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall 114
About the Seminar Single-Atom Logic for Skeletal EditingReactions which can manipulate the connectivity of the molecular skeleton are underexplored as tools for late-stage fu
Date
Friday, April 26, 2024, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium 111
About the Seminar Therapeutic ModularityAbout the SpeakerJames (Jay) E. Bradner, M.D.
Date
Monday, April 22, 2024, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall 114
About the Seminar CryoEM brings new mechanistic insights into double-stranded DNA break repairDNA double-strand breaks occur in all human cells on a dai