University of Richmond

The W. Allan Powell Lectureship in Chemistry

The W. Allan Powell Lectureship in Chemistry has been held annually since 1988 and is hosted by the University of Richmond and the Virginia Section of the ACS. The Powell Lectureship was established to honor Dr. W. Allan Powell who served the University for 34 years, 23 of which he chaired the chemistry department.

Lecturers include:

2009 Timothy M. Swager Polymer Electronics for Chemical and Biological Sensors
2008 Roald Hoffmann All The Way to Have A Bond
2007 X. Sunney Xie Holding Single Molecules up to the Light: From in vitro to in vivo Studies
2006 Donald H. Levy Supersonic Jet Spectroscopy: From Diatomics to Biological Molecules
2005 Charles L. Liotta Environmentally Benign Green Chemical Process
2004 Edward C. Taylor The Discovery of Alimta™, A Broadly Effective New Antitumor Agent
2003 Robert H. Crabtree An Organometallic Carousel: Abnormal Binding of Heterocyclic Ligands
2002 Michael A. Marletta Cellular Signaling with Nitric Oxide: A Collision Course for Chemistry and Biology?
2001 Orville L. Chapman Forty-three Years of Photochemistry
2000 Sidney M. Hecht Peptide and Protein Analogues Containing Synthetic Amino Acids at Defined Positions
1999 Royce W. Murray Chemically Modified Electrodes 25 Years Later
1998 Ronald Breslow The Chelate Effect in Binding, Catalysis and Chemotherapy
1997 Gertrude B. Elion Challenges and Rewards of Pharmaceutical Research
1996 David A. Evans Enantioselective Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions
1995 Mary L. Good Technology Policy For Economic Growth and Competitiveness
1994 Herbert C. Brown Discovering and Exploring a New Continent of Chemistry
1993 Nicholas J. Turro Photoreactions of Organic Molecules Adsorbed on Zeolitic Molecular Sieves
1992 Mark S. Wrighton New Materials, New Phenomena: What’s Real in Molecular Electronics?
1991 Koji Nakanishi Why 11-cis retinal for vision?
1990 Dudley R. Herschbach
 Single Collision Chemistry
1989 Jerrold Meinwald A Chemist’s View of Chemical Warfare, Courtship, and Mate Selection Among Insects
1988 Gary M. Hieftje Analytical Chemistry From Fundamentals to Applications