2008 Pauling Medal
Award Chair
Dr. James R. Vyvyan
Department. of Chemistry
Western Washington University
Tel: 360-650-2883
Fax: 360-650-2826
Symposium Chair
Dr. Gregory Dake
Chemistry Department
University of British Columbia
Room 2036 Main Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia
CANADA V6T 1Z1
Tel: 604-822-9121
The 2008 Linus Pauling Medal will be awarded to Thomas C. Bruice, of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara.
The Linus Pauling Medal is given annually by the Oregon, Portland and Puget Sound Sections of the American Chemical Society. The award recognizes outstanding accomplishments in chemistry in the spirit of and in honor of Linus Pauling, a native of the Pacific Northwest.
About the 2008 Pauling Medalist
Dr. Thomas C. Bruice has been one of the 50 most widely cited chemists in the world, a testament to the significance and influence of his work.
He was educated at the University of Southern California (B.S.; Ph.D) with a post-doctoral appointment at U.C.L.A. He served on the faculty at Yale (1955-1958), Johns Hopkins (1958-1960), Cornell (1960-1964), and the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is currently a Research Professor of Chemistry.
Professor Bruice’s work has been recognized as an essential force bridging the sciences of chemistry and biology. His work has established the chemical foundations for a myriad of biological processes. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has been the recipient of a number of major awards, including the Repligen Medal, Alfred Bader Award, an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, and a James Flack Norris Award.
The University of British Columbia will host the 2008 Pauling Award Symposium beginning at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25 in Chemistry B250 in the Chemistry Building. The symposium, entitled Novel Approaches in Bioorganic Chemistry is free and open to the public. The Pauling Award Banquet will follow at 7 p.m.
Symposium speakers:
Professor Sun Hur, Harvard
Medical School
“An Extra Base in the RNA World:
Selectivity beyond Shape and Sequence”
Dr. William A. Lee, Gilead
Pharmaceuticals
“Suppression of HIV Protease Resistance by
Phosphonate-Mediated Solvent Anchoring”
Professor Jack E. Dixon, University
of California, San Diego; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
“Post-Translational Modifications:
Expanding Natures Inventory”
Professor Thomas C. Bruice,
University of California, Santa Barbara
"Enzymatic Mechanisms and a Search for
Antigene/Antisense Agents"
Banquet
The Pauling Award Banquet will follow at 7 p.m. in Thea’s Lounge at the Irving and Thea Koerner Graduate Student Center and costs $50 to attend. The Pauling Medal presentation and Professor Bruice’s Award Address --"A Retrospective"-- will follow dinner.
Online
registration for the Pauling Award Banquet
Payment can be made by check ($50 per person), payable to University
of B.C. – Pauling Symposium and sent to Gregory Dake, Department of
Chemistry, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, B. C., V6T 1Z1, Canada. Deadline for
receipt of payment is Oct. 20.
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