The Howard Tieckelmann Memorial Lecture honors the legacy of Professor Howard Tieckelmann, who served on our faculty from 1948 until his retirement in 1987. Prof. Tieckelmann was an organic chemist with wide-ranging research interests and was a renowned teacher, having been promoted to SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in 1975. In his honor and for his contributions to the Department of Chemistry, UB and science at large, the Tieckelmann family, former students, and friends created the Tieckelmann Lecture Funds to commemorate Professor Howard Tieckelmann.
Guest Speaker: Julie Zimmerman
Professor and Senior Associate Dean, Yale School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Yale School of the Environment and Editor in Chief, Environmental Science & Technology
The design of sustainable products, processes and systems must be informed by rigorous assessments in order to minimize unintended consequences. By focusing on how to structure assessments to provide the necessary input, the resulting designs can achieve significant and measurable improvements in sustainability performance. Three case studies will be presented demonstrating the feedback between assessment and design including novel sorbents for removal of inorganic contaminants from aqueous systems; an improved process for the extraction, fractionation, and transformation of biobased feedstocks; and establishing dominant physiochemical properties contributing to observed toxicity. Each of these case studies will illustrate an integrative and iterative approach for sustainable design of engineered systems informed by systematic assessments.
Location: Room 225, Natural Sciences Complex, University at Buffalo North Campus
12th Annual Howard Tieckelamnn Memorial Lecture
Friday, October 14, 2022
Guest speaker: Professor & President Andrew D. Hamilton, New York University
Title: "Design of Protein Mimetics for the Disruption of Protein-Protein Interactions in Cancer and other Diseases"
11th Annual Howard Tieckelmann Memorial Lecture
Friday, May 10, 2019
Guest speaker: Professor George M. Whitesides, Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, Harvard University
Title: “New Kinds of Chemistry”
10th Annual Howard Tieckelmann Memorial Lecture
Friday, May 4, 2018
Guest speaker: Professor Peter J. Stang, Department of Chemistry, The University of Utah
Title: “Abiological Self-Assembly: Predesigned Metallacycles and Metallacages via Coordination”
9th Annual Howard Tieckelmann Memorial Lecture
Friday, May 12, 2017
Guest speaker: Professor David A. Tirrell, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Title: “Reinterpreting the Genetic Code: How To Do It and Why You Might Want To”
8th Annual Howard Tieckelmann Memorial Lecture
April 13, 2016
Guest speaker: Professor Geraldine L. Richmond, Presidential Chair and Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Oregon
Title: “Oil On Water: Calming The Seas But Not The Science”
7th Annual Howard Tieckelmann Memorial Lecture
April 17, 2015
Guest speaker: Professor William DeGrado, University of California, San Francisco
Title: “Analysis and Design of Membrane Proteins”
6th Annual Howard Tieckelmann Memorial Lecture
April 11, 2014
Guest speaker: Professor Thomas J. Meyer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title: “Finding the Way to Solar Fuels”
5th Annual Howard Tieckelmann Memorial Lecture
April 22, 2013
Guest speaker: Professor Richard N. Zare, Stanford University
Title: “Desorption Electrospray Ionization for Imaging and for Detection of Reaction Intermediates”
4th Annual Howard Tieckelmann Memorial Lecture
October 19, 2012
Guest speaker: Peter G. Schultz, The Scripps Research Institute
Title: “Synthesis at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology: From Stem Cells to the Genetic Code”
3rd Annual Howard Tieckelmann Memorial Lecture
April 29, 2011
Guest speaker: Professor Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University; 1981 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Title: “The Chemical Imagination at Work in Very Tight Places”
2nd Annual Howard Tieckelmann Memorial Lecture
April 9, 2010
Guest speaker: Professor Ada Yonath, Weizmann Institute; 2009 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Title: “Antibiotics Targeting the Ribosome”
1st Annual Howard Tieckelmann Memorial Lecture
April 9, 2010
Guest speaker: Professor Albert Padwa, Emory University
Title: “Cascade Reactions for Alkaloid Synthesis”
