Invited Presentations 1. Sharon Lall_Ramnarine, Utilizing AMP’s resources to navigate a career in STEM, Presented at the Annual Research Conference of the GS-LSAMP, Rutgers University Newark campus, NJ, April 1, 2011. Keynote speaker 2. Sharon Lall-Ramnarine, Jasmine Hatcher, Alejandra Castano, Marie Thomas and James Wishart, Exploring the effect of structural modification on the physical properties of various ionic liquids. Presented at the 17th International Symposium on Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids (a part of the 218th Electrochemical Society Meeting) in Las Vegas, Nevada, October 10 - 15, 2010 3. Sharon Lall_Ramnarine, The Alliance for Minority Participation (AMP): and its role in shaping careers and lives, Presented at the LSAMP Urban University Series Conference, Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY, April 23, 2010. Keynote speaker 4. Sharon Lall_Ramnarine, The Alliance for Minority Participation (AMP): and its role in shaping careers and lives, First Meeting of the Northern Cluster of the Garden State LSAMP Community, Montclair State University, NJ, November 7, 2009. Keynote speaker 5. Sharon Lall-Ramnarine, Ionic Liquids: Synthetic design, physical and biological characterization, Presented at the Faculty and Student Team (FaST) faculty meeting, Brookhaven National Laboratory, June 23, 2008 6. Sharon Lall-Ramnarine, Alejandra Castano, Jasmine Hatcher, Kijana Kerr, Xing Li, Ayisha Munawar, Ankita Parikh, Pokay Ma, Catherine McEntee and James F. Wishart, Manipulating the Properties of Ionic Liquids by Synthetic Design. Presented at the 40th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY. May 17-21 2008. 7. Sharon Lall-Ramnarine, Faculty research at community colleges – Challenges and successes. Panel presentation at The Council for Resource Development (CRD) National Conference held in Washington D.C. from November 01 to November 03, 2007. 8. Sharon Lall-Ramnarine, General synthesis and properties of ionic liquids, Presented at the New York Regional Alliance for Ionic Liquid Studies (NYRAILS) workshop, Rutgers University, NJ, September 14, 2007. 9. Sharon Lall-Ramnarine, “From Mentee to Mentor: The challenges and successes of undergraduate research in 2 and 4-year university settings” Presented at the Urban University Series Conference, City College, CUNY, May 2007. 10. Sharon Lall-Ramnarine, Introducing community college undergraduates to the world of research. CHED paper 10 presented at the 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007 11. Sharon Lall-Ramnarine, The importance of being involved in research. Presented at Queensborough Community College CSTEP program, October 2006 12. Sharon Lall-Ramnarine, Ionic Liquids – Alternative solvents for a sustainable environment. Presented at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Office of Education Community Summer Science Program (CSSP) for high school students lecture series, July 2006. 13. Sharon Lall-Ramnarine, Reflections on cultural differences, Panelist. Spring Faculty meeting, Queensborough Community College, March 2006. 14. S. I. Lall-Ramnarine, Research Opportunities in CUNY (Panelist). Presented at the QCC Chemistry Departmental Seminar Series, September 2005 15. S. I. Lall-Ramnarine, Getting into and Surviving Graduate School. Presented at the Howard Hughes Summer program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) program, Queens College, July 2005 16. S. I. Lall-Ramnarine, An Introduction to ionic Liquids – New Solvents for a Sustainable Environment. Presented at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Office of Education High School students Enrichment Meeting, July 2005 17. S. I. Lall-Ramnarine, An introduction to ionic liquids. Presented at the department of chemistry seminar series spring 2005, Pace University, NY, March 2, 2005 18. S.I. Lall-Ramnarine, Student-Faculty Relationship through Research, A keynote presentation, Presented at the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Queens borough wide conference, Queens College, CUNY, NY, March 3, 2005. 19. S. I. Lall-Ramnarine, An introduction to ionic liquids. Presented at the department of chemistry seminar series spring 2005, Queensborough Community College, NY, February 18, 2005. 20. Sharon Lall-Ramnarine, Delroy Coleman, James Wishart, Marie Thomas, Annu Ipe, Carolyn Spence, and Robert Engel. Synthesis and characterization of new types of ionic liquids. Paper 2346 presented at the Fourteenth International Symposium on Molten Salts, Honolulu, HI, October 2004. 21. S. I. Lall-Ramnarine, Synthesis and characterization of new categories of ionic liquids - LIPs and PILS, Presented at the ACS Long Island subsection meeting, Hofstra University, April 1, 2004 22. S. I. Lall-Ramnarine, An introduction to ionic liquids, Symposium/Workshop on Ionic Liquids, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, April 7, 2004