Bergstrom Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Stanford University
"Translational Science: The Chemistry-Biology-Medicine Continuum"
5:45 pm Sunday, October 20
McLennan Hall, Waco Convention Center
Reception 5pm
Hilton 3-Rivers Ballroom
Arthur T. Kemp Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Yale University
"Capturing the molecular level mechanics driving bulk chemical behaviors from catalysis to the spectral dynamics of interfacial water with cryogenic ion spectroscopy"
5:45 pm Monday October 21
McLennan Hall, Waco Convention Center
Reception 5pm
Hilton 3-Rivers Ballroom
Technical Lecture in "Chemical Reaction Kinetics, Dynamics, and Mechanisms" Symposium
Monday morning, October 21, 2024
Waco Convention Center
Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Regents Chair in Molecular Biology
Wilson M. and Kathryn Fraser Research Professorship in Biochemistry
Department of Molecular Biosciences
The University of Texas at Austin
"Is a Blind Watchmaker the Same as a Blind Neural Net?"
5:45 pm Tuesday October 22
McLennan Hall, Waco Convention Center
Reception 5pm MONDAY
Hilton 3-Rivers Ballroom
Technical Lecture in "Engineering of Biochemistry for Enhanced or Novel Activity" Symposium
Tuesday afternoon, October 22, 2024
Waco Convention Center
"TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE: THE CHEMISTRY-BIOLOGY-MEDICINE CONTINUUM"
Sunday, October 20, 2024
McLennan Hall, Waco Convention Center
The W. Dial-Black Lecture is part of an annual lecture series in honor of Sadie Jo Black in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Baylor University. The Department is pleased to announce that Professor Paul Wender will present the 2024 W. Dial-Black Family Lecture.
Paul Wender received his B.S. degree from Wilkes University and his Ph.D. in chemistry from Yale University. He was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University. He served on the faculty at Harvard University and joined the faculty at Stanford University where he is the Francis W. Bergstrom Professor of Chemistry and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Chemical and Systems Biology. Professor Wender’s research has been recognized with numerous awards including recently the Tetrahedron Prize, Prelog Medal (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Arthur Cope Award (American Chemical Society), Cohen Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry (Israel Chemical Society), and Research Award of the German Bioactives and Biotechnology Leibniz Allaince. He has also been recognized with several teaching awards including the Hoagland Prize, Bing Teaching Award, and the Dean's Teaching Award. He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Sadie Jo Black graduated from Baylor University in 1950 and was an assistant professor at Baylor in the Family and Consumer Sciences Department, retiring in 1992 after completing 35 years of service at the university. Growing up in Teague, Texas, her parents, Dial and Tula Black, instilled in her and her brother, William Dial “Dub,” the love of God and His church and peoples, as well as the responsibility of sharing. When she learned about promising cancer research being conducted at Baylor, she was committed to enhancing these efforts, and established an endowment that provides funding for a distinguished lecturer series focusing on preeminent research in cancer, Parkinson’s disease, or other major diseases. The W. Dial Black Family Lectures bring multidisciplinary speakers in chemistry, molecular biology, and other suitable fields of interest to Baylor University .
Technical Lecture in "Chemical Reaction Kinetics, Dynamics, and Mechanisms" Symposium
Monday morning, October 20, 2024
tba, Waco Convention Center
Award Lecture - "Capturing the molecular level mechanics driving bulk chemical behaviors from catalysis to the spectral dynamics of interfacial water with cryogenic ion spectroscopy"
5:45-7 pm Monday October 21, 2024
McLennan Hall, Waco Convention Center
The Gooch-Stephens Lectures are an annual event of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Baylor University, and honor two former Chairs of the Department – Dr. W.T. Gooch and Dr. W.R. Stephens. The Department is pleased to announce that Dr. Mark Johnson is one of two 2024 Gooch-Stephens Lecturers.
Mark Johnson is the Arthur T. Kemp Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Yale University. Johnson is known for the development and exploitation of experimental methods that capture and structurally characterize transient chemical species, such as reaction intermediates, using cryogenic ion chemistry in conjunction with multiple resonance laser spectroscopy. Johnson was born and in Oakland, California in 1954 and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in chemistry and from Stanford University in 1983 with a Ph.D. chemistry with Dick Zare. He was a postdoctoral fellow with Carl Lineberger at JILA/University of Colorado, Boulder, from 1983-1985 and joined the Yale faculty in 1985. He has served as Chair of APS Division of Laser Science and the ACS Division of Physical Chemistry, was co-editor of Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem. from 2012 to 2022, and is presently co-editor of the Annual Review of Physical Chemistry.
Technical Lecture in "Engineering of Biochemistry for Enhanced or Novel Activity" Symposium
Tuesday afternoon, October 22, 2024
tba, Waco Convention Center
Award Lecture - "tba"
5:45-7 pm Tuesday October 22, 2024
McLennan Hall, Waco Convention Center
The Gooch-Stephens Lectures are an annual event of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Baylor University, and honor two former Chairs of the Department – Dr. W.T. Gooch and Dr. W.R. Stephens. The Department is pleased to announce that Dr. Andrew Ellington is one of two 2024 Gooch-Stephens Lecturers.
Dr. Andrew Ellington received his B.S. in Biochemistry from Michigan State University in 1981, and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Harvard in 1988. His post-doctoral work was with Dr. Jack Szostak at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he developed methods for the in vitro selection of functional nucleic acids and coined the term 'aptamer.' He originally received the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator, Cottrell, and Pew Scholar awards, and later was a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow of the DoD and a Howard Hughes Professor. Dr. Ellington's lab works centers on the development of nucleic acid circuitry for point-of-care diagnostics, on accelerating the evolution of proteins and cells through the introduction of novel chemistries, and on machine learning methods for engineering proteins and understanding evolutionary landscapes.
The Gooch-Stephens Lectures were established as a permanent annual event in recognition of the outstanding contributions of two longtime, highly respected chemistry professors and former department chairmen. Dr. W.T. Gooch became an instructor at Baylor University in 1908 after receiving two degrees from Baylor. His mentor was E.E. Reid, who later became an internationally known chemist at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Gooch received his doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Chicago, where he studied with such eminent chemists of that day as Nef and Stieglitz. Dr. Gooch was especially known for his organic chemistry courses, which were taken by all chemistry majors and premedical students. From 1909 to 1949, Dr. Gooch served as chairman of the chemistry department at Baylor University. He died April 21, 1973, at the age of 87. Dr. W.R Stephens, who joined the Baylor faculty in 1922, came to Baylor from Meridian College where he had been dean. Dr. Stephens received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Auburn University and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Iowa, where he was associated with some of the best known chemists of that period. Dr. Stephens succeeded Dr. Gooch as chairman of the department in 1949. As chairman, Dr. Stephens enlarged the staff of the chemistry department and, in 1952, initiated and developed the doctor of philosophy program in chemistry. While chairman, Dr. Stephens devoted much of his energy and talents to the details of construction during the building of our former facilities in the Marrs McLean Science Building. He died Jan. 10, 1988, at the age of 95.
1970 Professor Irving M. Klotz
1971 Dr. Byron Riegel
1972 Professor Harry B. Gray
1974 Professor Melvin Calvin
1975 Professor Herbert C. Brown
1976 Professor Willard E. Libby
1977 Professor Glenn T. Seaborg
1978 Professor E. J. Corey
1980 Professor Wm. N. Lipscomb, Jr.
1980 Professor Henry Taube
1982 Dr. Rosalyn Yalow
1983 Professor llya Prigogine
1983 Professor Roald Hoffmann
1985 Professor Neil Bartlett
1986 Professor F. A. Cotton
1986 Professor Bruce Merrifield
1987 Professor Derek Harold Barton
1988 Professor Paul C.W. Chu
1989 Professor Johann Deisenhofer
1991 Professor Allen J. Bard
1991 Professor Yuan T. Lee
1992 Professor M. Frederick Hawthorne
1993 Professor Per–Olov Löwdin
1994 Professor Kyriacos C. Nicolaou
1995 Professor Tobin J. Marks
1996 Professor Richard N. Zare
1997 Professor R.E. Smalley
1998 Professor Robert G. Bergman
1999 Professor F. Sherwood Rowland
2000 Dr. Ahmed H. Zewail
2001 Dr. K. Barry Sharpless
2002 Dr. Robert H. Grubbs
2003 Prof. Alan MacDiarmid
2004 Dr. Charles P. Casey
2005 Dr. Barry M. Trost
2006 Dr. Stephen J. Lippard
2007 Sir Harold W. Kroto
2008 Sir J. Fraser Stoddart
2009 Professor Omar M. Yaghi
2010 Professor Nathan S. Lewis
2013 Professor Donald R. Blake
2015 Professor Kendall N. Houk
2016 Professor Jon Clardy
2017 Professor Steven G. Boxer
2019 Professor Geraldine Richmond
2020 Professor Scott McLuckey
SWRM is part of the American Chemical Society.
Copyright © 2024 - All Rights Reserved.