College to Host Ken and Nancy Long Chemistry Lecture
Posted on Thursday, October 21, 2010
The Westminster College Department of Chemistry will host Dr. Scott McLuckey for the third annual Ken and Nancy Long Chemistry Lecture Tuesday, Nov. 2, at 7 p.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater of the McKelvey Campus Center. The event is free and open to the public.
McLuckey's presentation, "Learning to Look 'Both Ways': A Liberal Arts Scientist's Musings on Competing Viewpoints in Science and Science Policy," relates McLuckey's continuing and incomplete effort to recognize the underlying factors that determine the values individuals and institutions place on issues of relevance to science and science policy.
McLuckey, a 1978 Westminster graduate, is the John A. Leighty distinguished professor of chemistry at Purdue University. His current emphases are the identification and characterization of macro-molecules and ion/ion reaction chemistry. His work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Chemical Instrumentation Award in 2007 and the ANACHEM Award in 2008.
The lecture series is funded by Dr. Ken Long, Westminster professor of chemistry emeritus, and his wife, Nancy, to invite outstanding chemists to speak to Westminster students.
Contact Mary Pitman, chemistry department secretary, at (724) 946-7294 or e-mail pitmanmp@westminster.edu for more information.
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