Lectures Synthetic, Bioorganic and Medicinal Research in the Smith Group 4:00 PM, Thursday, October 13th, 2016 1000 North Lawn (Technical Talk) Publication of Research in the Future: A Personal Perspective 4:00 PM, Friday, October 14th, 2016 1004 Shelby Hall (General Interest Talk) Biography Amos B. Smith, III received his early education in Lewisburg, PA. In 1966 he was awarded Bucknell University’s first combined four-year B.S.-M.S. degree in Chemistry. After a year in medical school (University of Pennsylvania), he earned his Ph.D. degree (1972) […]
Category: Cava Lecture
2013 Cava Lecture: Fraser Stoddart
Lectures Structure and Mechanism in Radical Mechanostereochemistry 12:45 PM, Thursday, February 14th, 2013 1093 Shelby Hall (Technical Talk) Mingling Art and Science 2:00 PM, Friday, February 15th, 2013 1093 Shelby Hall (General Interest Talk) Biography The academic career of Fraser Stoddart, who was born in the capital of Scotland on Victoria Day (24 May) in 1942, can be traced through thick and thin from the Athens of the North to the Windy City beside Lake Michigan, with interludes on the […]
2011 Cava Lecture: Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou
Lectures Molecules That Changed the World 4:00 PM, Monday, September 19th, 2011 1004 Shelby Hall (General Interest Talk) Maitotoxin: An Inspiration for Synthesis 12:45 PM, Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 1093 Shelby Hall (Technical Talk) Biography Kyriacos Costa (KC) Nicolaou was born on July 5, 1946 in Cyprus, where he grew up and went to school until the age of 18. In 1964, he emigrated from Cyprus to England, where he spent two years learning English and preparing to enter the […]
2009 Cava Lecture: Jerrold Meinwald
Lectures When the Chemistry is Right: Violence, Sex, and Drugs in the World of Insects 4:00 PM, Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 1093 Shelby Hall (General Interest Talk) Exploring the Chemistry of Biotic Interactions 12:45 PM, Thursday, October 29th, 2009 1093 Shelby Hall (Technical Talk) Musical Performance 12:00 PM, Friday October 30th, 2009 Moody Music Building Recital Hall Biography Jerrold Meinwald, Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Cornell University, was born in New York, NY in 1927. He was educated […]
2009 Cava Lecture: Richard R. Schrock
Lectures How Basic Research in Chemistry Led to a Nobel Prize 5:00 PM, Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 107 Shelby Hall (General Interest Talk) Thousands of Catalysts for Olefin Metathesis: Variability, Longevity, and Asymmetry at the Metal 12:45 PM, Thursday, April 30th, 2009 151 Shelby Hall (Technical Talk) Biography Richard R. Schrock is the Frederick G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was born on January 4, 1945, the third of three boys, in Berne, a […]