President's Lecture in Chemistry

Date/Time:	Wednesday, 07 Apr 2010 at 8:00 pm
Location:	Sun Room, Memorial Union
Cost:	Free
Contact:
Phone:	515-294-9934
Channel:	Lecture Series
Categories:	Lectures
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"At the Water's Edge: Understanding Environmentally Important Processes at Liquid Surfaces," Geraldine Richmond, University of Oregon. Richmond is founder and chair of the Committee on the Advancement of Women Chemists, an organization assisting in the advancement of women faculty in the sciences. The 2010 President's Lecture in Chemistry and Part of the Women in STEM Series.

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Richmond's research applications of nonlinear optical spectroscopy and computational methods to the chemistry that occurs at complex surfaces and interfaces have relevance in numerous areas, including energy production, environmental remediation and atmospheric chemistry.

Recent awards for her scientific accomplishments include the Spiers Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2004), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2007) and the Bomem-Michaelson Award (2008). Richmond received her bachelor's degree in chemistry from Kansas State University and her Ph.D. in chemical physics at the University of California, Berkeley.