Public Lectures

Upcoming Lectures

To be announced.

Recent Lectures

Simply unmoored: The rejection of complexity in quantum mechanical explanations of chemical phenomena, Fourth Annual Thomistic Philosophy and Natural Science Symposium: Complexity, Simplicity, and Emergence, July 2022
Folding up the questions, What is Life? Collegium, June 2022
Steeped: The chemistry of tea, Bryn Mawr College, May 2022
To boldly go where no woman has gone before, Roger That! Conference, March 2022
Commuting Operators: Moving Between the Humanities and Sciences, Pennswood Village Forum, February 2022
Secret History of Water, Golden Sages Lecture, Bryn Mawr College Alumnae Association, 11 November 2021
Molecular Monsters: Designing molecules with Möbius structural topology, Queens College, 17 May 2021
Probing the Shallows of the Unknown: A Magi Project Evening Conversation, Collegium Institute, 8 April 2021
Steal Her Bones Talkback, InterAct Theatre Company, Philadelphia, PA, 28 February 2021
Amid the Burning Layers of Grace: A Contemplative Approach to Science, Rockhurst University, 28 October 2020
Molecular Monsters: Designing molecules with Möbius topology, Wake Forest Chemistry Department, 19 February 2020
Award Lecture, ACS Philadelphia Section Award, 18 October 2019
Invited Lecture, Mendeleev 150: 4th International Conference on the Periodic Table, 26-28 July 2019
ACS New Faculty Workshop, Caltech, 26-29 June
Radioactive Cat: Prowling the Depths of the Periodic Table, Vatican Observatory Foundation Seminar, 3 June 2019
Isotopic Tales: Exploring the Depths of the Periodic Table, ACS Philadelphia Section Meeting, May 2019
Stories of STEM Writing Contest Keynote Speaker, Penn State Brandywine, April 2019
Atomic Women & A Day at the Vatican Observatory, Quadrangle, Bryn Mawr, PA, March 2019
Making Molecular Monsters, Siena College, October 2018
Are scientists mystics? Cosmos and Creation keynote speaker, June 2018
The Good, the Bad, and the Chemistry: Decoding Chemical Sensationalism, Tredyffrin Public Library, 23 January 2018
The Good, the Bad, and the Chemistry: Decoding Chemical Sensationalism, Wagner Science Museum, 29 November 2017
Physics Colloquium, Boston College, 6 December 2016

A highlight reel from the Mendeleev 150 conference in St. Petersburg.

Asteroids, Stars and the Love of God at Main Line School Night, 16 November 2017
Sex in the Citadel of Science, Bryn Mawr Family Weekend, 4 November 2016
Sliding Scales: Tools for predicting and understanding molecular structure from paper and pencil to Beowulf clusters, Lucian symposium, St. Edward's College, Austin, TX, 29 September 2017
Science is not a synonym for secular, The Catholic Scientist, St. Joseph's Seminary, New York, 3 March 2017
In the Thicket of this World: Doing Science as a Person of Faith, Ducharme Lecture, Mount St. Mary's University, Emmitsburg, MD, November 2016
How to work at the subtle edge: What contemplatives can teach scientists, Meditation, TechnoScience and Humanity, Barcelona, Spain, 30 October 2015
Walking the edge: science and religion, Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, October 2015
Working at the subtle edge: the intersection of science and religion, The Institute for Science and Religion at Chestnut Hill College, 18 November 2014
Working at the subtle edge of things: the intersection of faith and science at St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN, 20 February 2014