COOS BAY, OR – Southwestern Oregon Community College invites the community to join us on Thursday, November 7, 2024 at 6:00 pm, for “Coffee Chemical Physics” with Dr. Christopher Hendon from the University of Oregon. This is a free event; all ages are welcome.
Coos County residents can join us in-person in the Umpqua Hall lecture room (room 184) on the Coos Campus, 1988 Newmark Ave., Coos Bay.
Curry County residents can join us for a watch party in the Community Room on the Curry Campus, 96082 Lone Ranch Parkway, Brookings.
For those not able to attend in person the lecture will be streamed live on the College’s YouTube channel at: www.youtube.com/@southwesternOR/streams.
About the Lecture:
Southwestern’s Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Derek Morrelli, welcomes Dr. Christopher Hendon, Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oregon. Numerous physical and chemical processes play a determining role in coffee quality, ranging from agricultural practices, to roasting and brewing. We will canvas the landscape of coffee research, discussing his group’s effort to understand the key factors that determine cup quality and reproducibility. The talk will touch on several research areas; the chemistry of water, the physics of grinding, mathematical modeling to improve espresso reproducibility, and their latest work using electrochemistry to identify coffee qualities.
About the Presenter:
Dr. Christopher H. Hendon is a computational chemist with interests in energy materials and coffee. He obtained his Bachelor of Science with Advanced Honors from Monash University in 2011 and his doctorate from the University of Bath in 2015. After a two-year postdoc at Massachusetts Institute of Technology he joined the University of Oregon in 2017 and is now an Associate Professor of Chemistry where his research group focuses on materials with useful defects.
He has published over 115 papers, was named a Cottrell Scholar in 2021, a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar in 2022, the Samuel R. Scholes Jnr. Lecture for excellence in scientific communication, and has been awarded the Rippey Award for Innovative Teaching twice. In coffee, he authored, “Water For Coffee”, and has written numerous peer-reviewed articles on the topic. Presently, he leads a laboratory studying the chemical physics of coffee beverage production.
For more information about the lecture series contact Derek Morrelli, Assistant Professor, Chemistry at derek.morrelli@socc.edu or 541-888-7244.
For more information on upcoming lectures contact Krystal Hopper Meyers, STEAM Pathways Assistant, at 541-888-7416, or krystal.hopper@socc.edu.
To learn more about STEM degrees at Southwestern visit: https://www.socc.edu/programs-classes/stem/.
