Schneller Chemistry Legacy Lecture Series
Overview
In May, 2014, Stew and Aina Schneller established the Schneller Chemistry Legacy Lectureship
endowment in the College of Arts and Sciences on the Tampa campus of the University.
The Schneller Chemistry Legacy Lectureship will host one lecture per year within the
Chemistry Department. The Schneller Legacy Lecturer is to be chosen by the chemistry
department chair in consultation with appropriate faculty members forming a committee.
Each Schneller Chemistry Legacy Lecturer will receive a plaque recognizing his/her
lecture.
Stew Schneller served as a member of the USF chemistry faculty from 1971-1994 that
included being chair of the department from 1986-1994.
This Schneller Chemistry Legacy Lectureship honors the chemistry faculty who, from
1960 to 1968, traveled from sand spurs and gravel roads to arrive at a Ph.D. granting
department with an undergraduate degree program consistently recognized by the American
Chemical Society.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
~Isaac Newton
2015
| Name |
Position |
Lecture Title |
| Eric N. Jacobsen, Ph.D. |
Sheldon Emory Professor and Chair Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard
University |
"Anion-Binding Catalysis" |
2016
| Name |
Position |
Lecture Title |
| Andrew Hamilton, Ph.D. |
Professor of Chemistry and 16th President New York University |
"Synthetic Mimics of Protein Structure and Function" |
2017
| Name |
Position |
Lecture Title |
| Jeffrey Johnston, Ph.D. |
|
“New Catalysts, Methods, and Strategies for Therapeutic Development and On-Demand Natural
Product Total Synthesis” |
2018
| Name |
Position |
Lecture Title |
| Sarah Reisman, Ph.D. |
|
“Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Natural Products and the Chemistry They Inspire” |
2019
| Name |
Position |
Lecture Title |
| Wendy Young, Ph.D. |
Senior Vice President of Small Molecule Drug Discovery Genentech, Inc. |
“Delivering Innovative Medicines: Small Changes Can Have a Large Effect” |
