Sponsored by the Office of the President, the University Lecture Series provides a forum for speakers of national and international importance to enhance scholarly and scientific learning and to stimulate the intellectual climate of the university and surrounding communities.
2021 University Lecture: Storing and Computing with Information Stored as Molecules by Dr. George Whitesides
George M. Whitesides received his AB degree from Harvard University in 1960, and his PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 1964 (with J.D Roberts). He began his independent career at M.I.T., and is now the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor at Harvard Univestiy. His current research interests include physical and organic chemistry, materials science, biophysics, water, self-assembly, complexity and simplicity, origin of life, dissipative systems, affordable diagnostics, and soft robotics.
2019 University Lecture Photos
2019 Video Highlights
Highlights from the 2019 presentation from Space Exploration: Past, Present, and Future, A Celebration of 50 Years Since Apollo, featuring James Green, NASA Chief Scientist, and Steven M. Rothstein, Executive Director, John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.