The Welcher Lectureship has been established in Dr. Welcher’s honor to celebrate his legacy and commitment to the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology.
Dr. Welcher was a renowned professor of Chemistry from 1932 to 1978, serving as a faculty before IUPUI was officially established in 1969.
Dr. John F. Hartwig is Professor of Chemistry and the Henry Rapoport Chair in Organic Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley and Senior Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He has received numerous awards including the American Chemical Society Award in Organometallic Chemistry, the Herbert C. Brown Award for Synthetic Methods, the Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis, the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, and the Arthur C. Cope Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Hartwig’s research focuses on the discovery and understanding of new reactions catalyzed by transition metal complexes. He is well known for his contributions to widely practiced cross-coupling chemistry that form arylamines, aryl ethers, aryl sulfides, and α-aryl carbonyl compounds as well as for the discovery of practical C-H bond functionalization reactions.
Dr. Frank J. Welcher was a renowned professor of Chemistry from 1932 to 1978, serving as a faculty before IUPUI was officially established in 1969. Dr. Welcher was a prolific author, teacher and world-wide conference speaker.
In 1978, the IUPUI Chemistry Department organized the Frank J. Welcher Symposium on Analytical Chemistry with chemists traveling from around the world to participate. In 1990, the city of Indianapolis proclaimed a day as the Frank J. Welcher Day; the same year Purdue University bestowed on him the Honorary degree of Doctor of Science.
2022
Transforming Common Garments into Sensors for Human Health Monitoring
Trisha L. Andrew, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Director, Wearable Electronics Lab
University of Massachusetts Amherst
2021
Drug Discovery: Ingenuity or Serendipity?
Richard B. Silverman, Ph.D.
Inventor of Lyrica
Patrick G. Ryan/Aon Professor
Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University
2019 – Inaugural Lecture
The Surface of Water: Its role in environmentally important processes
Geraldine Richmond, Ph.D.
Presidential Chair in Science and Professor of Chemistry
University of Oregon
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Special thanks to Erwin and Priscilla Boschmann for establishing the Welcher Lectureship.
Thanks to the planning committee: