Endowed Lecture

Martin Lecture Series

Overview

When Raymond Castle retired in 1994, the Castle lecture series was terminated, and was replaced in a limited way by the Barbara and Dean Martin Seminar Series. These lectures, too, were designed to provide an opportunity for a diverse group of outstanding persons. At the outset, a guarantee of funding for five years was promised, but the program was successful and continued beyond the five-year program. The committee has made a Endowed Lecture committee of the department.

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                                      The Martins: Barbara Martin & Dr. Dean F. Martin

1995
Name Postion Lecture Title
Nicholas A. Ashford, Ph.D., J.D. Professor of Technology and Policy, MIT "Low-Level Chemical Sensitivity: An Emerging Occupational and Environmental Health Problem"
1996
Name Postion Lecture Title
Dick van der Helm, Ph.D. George Lynn Cross Research Professor, University of Oklahoma "Iron Uptake by Siderophores in Microorganisms and the Physical Chemistry of Ferric Siderophore Receptor Proteins"
1997
Name Postion Lecture Title
Robert P. Carnahan, Ph.D. Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, ±«Óãtv "Advances in Water Treatment Technology"
Daryle H. Busch, Ph.D. Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor, University of Kansas "Ligand Design for Enhanced Molecular Organization"
1998
Name Postion Lecture Title
Jon C. Clardy, Ph.D. Horace White Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University "Natural Products and Their Targets"
Marcetta Y. Darensbourg, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry, Texas A&M University "Chemical Models for the Heterobimetallic Active Site of NiFe HydrogenaseB An Organometallic in Biology"
1999
Name Postion Lecture Title
Robert E. Sievers, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Colorado "Fine Aerosol Particles in Pulmonary Drug Delivery and in the Atmosphere"
Steven D. Burke, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Synthesis and Study of Natural and Unnatural Oxacycles"
2000
Name Postion Lecture Title
Margaret Farago, Ph.D. Professor, Centre for Environmental Technology, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London "Arsenic Contamination in Southwest England"
Peter C. Jurs, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University "Prediction of Chemical Properties of Organic Compounds from Molecular Structures"
Albert Padwa, Ph.D. William P. Timmie Professor, Department of Chemistry, Emory University "Cascade Processes for Alkaloid Synthesis"
2001
Name Postion Lecture Title
Gregory R. Choppin,Ph.D. Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Florida State University "Environmental Behavior of Plutonium"
Stewart W. Schneller, Ph.D. Dean, College of Sciences and Mathematics, Auburn "Carbocyclic Nucleosides"
2002
Name Postion Lecture Title
Ellen M.Leahy, Ph.D. & James W. Leahy, Ph.D. Senior Scientist, Medicinal Chemistry, Celera & Directory of Chemistry, Exelixis "Drug Discovery in the Post-Genomic Era"
2003
Name Postion Lecture Title
Dale W. Margerum, Ph.D. Harvey Washington Wiley Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Purdue University "Diversity of Bromite Ion Redox Mechanisms in Aqueous Solutions"
Joanna Fowler, Ph.D. Brookhaven National Laboratory "Imaging Drug Addiction in the Human Brain"
2004
Name Postion Lecture Title
Margaret M. Faul, Ph.D. Associate Director, Chemical Process R&D Amgen, Inc. "Process Development Towards the Synthesis of Protein Kinase C Inhibitors"
Frank W. Fowler, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry, SUNY-Stony Brook "The Development of Strategies for the Preparation of Designed Materials"
2005
Name Postion Lecture Title
Joan Silverstone Valentine, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, Los Angeles "Misfolded Copper-Zinc Superoxide Dismutase and ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease)"
2007
Name Postion Lecture Title
Patrick Benz, Ph.D. President, Benz Research and Development "Contemporary Topics in Contact Lens and Intraocular Lens Materials"
2008
Name Postion Lecture Title
Karl Kovacs, Ph.D. Vice-President Operations Origene Technologies, Inc. "Functional Discovery Through High Content Genomic Screening"
2009
Name Postion Lecture Title
Brian Moulton, Pd.D. Vertex Pharmaceuticals "Translational Product Development in the Pharmaceutical; Industry: Discovery and Development"
2010
Name Postion Lecture Title
Jay J. Siegel, Ph.D. Professor and Director, Institute of Organic Chemistry University of Zurich "Aromatic Architecture: Bowles, Gears, and Knots"
2011
Name Postion Lecture Title
Joseph S. Francisco, Ph.D. William E. Moore Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University "Earth's Atmosphere to Planetary Engineering of Mars: An Adventure in Chemistry."
2013
Name Postion Lecture Title
Richard N. Zare, Ph.D. Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science at Stanford University "Desorption Electrospray Ionization"
2014
Name Postion Lecture Title
Stephen Leffler Buchwald, Ph.D Camille Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry, MIT "Palladium and Copper-Catalyzed Methodology of Use in Organic Synthesis: From Fundamentals to Applications"
2016
Name Postion Lecture Title
Melanie Cooper, Ph.D. Lappan-Phillips Chair of Science Education "Evidence-Based Approaches to Curriculum Reform and Assessment"
2017
Name Postion Lecture Title
Cherie L. Yestrebsky, Ph.D. Chair of the Chemistry Department at University of Central Florida "Using Chemistry and Creativity to Solve Enviornmental Remediation Problems"
2018
Name Postion Lecture Title
Melanie Sanford, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan "Challenges and Opportunities for (In)organic Chemists in Grid-Scale Energy Storage"
2019
Name Postion Lecture Title
Dr. Christy Haynes Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Elmore H. Northey Professor at University of Minnesota "Design and Redesign of Sustainable Engineered Nanomaterials"