Weekly Seminars

Interdisciplinary Science, Engineering, and Health Science Seminars

Swenson College encourages an exchange of ideas and collaboration between disciplines at UMD. Anyone organizing a seminar that would like to include it in this list should contact [email protected].

For the week of March 02-06, 2026:

Tuesday March 3

Title: The Lived Experience of Women in Science
Speaker: Carolyn Fairbanks, PhD, Professor, Department ofPharmaceutics, and Associate Dean for Research, College of Pharmacy, Universityof Minnesota
Time/Location: 3:00 p.m. CST / Moos 5-125
Zoom by request: [email protected]
Host: Phar 6260 Pharmaceutics Seminar (Department of Pharmaceutics)

Title: MMR Vaccine and Autism Controversy: Origins and Evidence
Speaker: Dr. Rory Remmel, University of Minnesota
Time/Location: 3:35 p.m. CST / Moos 2-520, TC & 163 LSci, DL
Zoom by request: [email protected]
Host: Phar 6150: Med Chem seminar

Wednesday, March 4

Title: Supporting our Communities through Difficult Times
Speaker: Angeline Dukes
Time/Location: 12:15 p.m. CST / SMed 142
Zoom Link: Join Zoom Meeting
Host: Sarah Lacher

Thursday, March 5

Title: Dissertation topic
Speaker: Chi-Han Cheng
Time/Location: 3:35 p.m. CST / 193 WDH (TC) & 160 LSci (DL)
Host: SAPh 8100: SAPh Seminar

Friday, March 6

Title: Spatial Distribution of Microplastics in Major Minnesota River Systems
Speaker: Emeka Ngene
Time/Location: 3:00 p.m. CST / Chem 200 
Host: Liz Minor

Title: Effects of size and surface charge of crowding agents on multi-scale dynamics of donor-linker-acceptor constructs
Speaker: Gaby Núñez
Time/Location: 3:00 p.m. CST / Chem 200 
Host: Ahmed Heikal