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 (now IU Indianapolis) was officially established in 1969.
Dr. Scott J. Miller is the Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University.
He has received numerous awards, including the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, DuPont Young Professor Award, Merck Chemistry Council Award, Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award of the American Chemical Society, and National Institutes of Health MERIT Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
He now serves as Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Organic Chemistry.
Professor Miller’s research program focuses on asymmetric catalysis. His group employs strategies that include catalyst design, the development of techniques for catalyst screening, and the application of new catalysts to the preparation of biologically active agents.
Three particular interests of his laboratory are (a) the selective functionalization of complex molecules, (b) the exploration of potential analogies between synthetic catalysts and enzymes and (c) the discovery of molecules that are effective antibiotics despite increasing resistance challenges.
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.
2023
Catalyzing Organic Synthesis
John F. Hartwig, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
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
Sponsored by:
Special thanks to Erwin and Priscilla Boschmann for establishing the Welcher Lectureship.
Thanks to the planning committee: