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CCB Prize Lectures

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CCB awards multiple prizes to the top chemists working today in honor of past community members who advanced chemistry research, innovation, and instruction. Prize winners deliver a lecture about their work to the department. For more information about...

Max Tishler Prize Lecture

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Professor John Harwig, University of California, Berkeley. Catalytic, Regioselective Functionalization of C-H Bonds. Max Tishler Prize Lecture.

Tishler Lecture: Dean Toste (UC Berkeley)

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Title: Supramolecular Hosts as Enzyme Mimics Modern organic synthesis relies heavily on selective reactions to enable sustainable access to fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals. In enzymatic catalysis, nature employs various mechanisms to achieve the...

Hershbach Lecture: Neil Garg (UCLA)

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Transforming Organic Chemistry Education Through Community and Innovation Organic chemistry courses have a bad reputation, despite having a tremendous impact on our everyday lives. Organic chemistry has remained a notorious “weed-out” class for decades –...

Max Tishler Prize Lecture: Barry Trost

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Location: Pfizer Lecture Hall , 12 Oxford St., Cambridge, 02138 ( map) Professor Barry Trost, Stanford University. Cycloadditions via TMM-Pd Intermediates: New Strategies for Asymmetric Induction and Total Synthesis Add to Google Calendar

Frank Neese (Max Planck) delivers George B. Kistiakowsky Lecture Prize Lecture

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On Thursday, March 5, Frank Neese, the Director of Molecular Theory and Spectroscopy at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, delivered his George B. Kistiakowsky Lecture Prize Lecture, "How (and why) to Combine High-Level Spectroscopy with Quantum...

Xiaowei Zhuang delivers 2023 Dreyfus Prize Lecture

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On Friday, September 21, Xiaowei Zhuang recieved the 2023 Dreyfus Prize and delievered her prize lecture in Pfizer Lecture Hall entitled "Vizualizing biology at the nanoscale & genome-scale: From molecular structures in neurons to cell atlas of the brain...

Yoichi Hoshimoto delivers Merck-Banyu Leadership Award Lecture

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On Friday, October 18, Osaka University Professor Yoichi Hoshimoto delivered his Merck-Banyu Leadership Award Lecture entitled "Exploring Ways to Harness N-Heterocyclic Carbenes and Triarylboranes in Organometallic and Synthetic Chemistry." Hoshimoto's...

Paula Hammond delivers inaugural Percy Lavon Julian Prize Lecture

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The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) celebrated the launch of the Percy Lavon Julian Prize Lecture on March 3, with an address by the inaugural lecturer Paula Hammond, Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT...

Timothy Swager (MIT) Delivers Max Tishler Prize Lecture

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On Thursday, October 9 Professor Timothy M. Swager delivered his Max Tishler Prize Lecture entitled "Electronic Molecular Materials for High-Performance Chemical Sensors." The Max Tishler Prize Lectureship, established in 1951 through a gift from Merck...

Jacqueline K. Barton delivers Frank H. Westheimer Prize Lecture

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On Tuesday, November 15 Professor Jacqueline K. Barton delivered her Frank H. Westheimer Prize Lecture entitled "Signaling through DNA." Professor Barton was awarded the Westheimer Prize in 2020. Dr. Jacqueline K. Barton is the John G. Kirkwood and Arthur...

Bryan Roth delivers Frank H. Westheimer Prize Lecture

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On Thursday, October 10 UNC Professor Bryan Roth delivered his Frank H. Westheimer Prize Lecture entitled "Synthethic and Chemical Neurobiology." Professor Roth was awarded the 2024 Westheimer Prize. Bryan L. Roth, the Michael J. Hooker Distinguished...