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.
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, USF |
"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" |
