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 honoring Professor Thomas Bruice of the University of California, Santa Barbara at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25 in Chemistry B250 in the Chemistry Building.
Symposium
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.
Other symposium speakers include Professor Sun Hur of the Harvard Medical School, Dr. William A. Lee of Gilead Pharmaceuticals, and Professor Jack E. Dixon of the University of California, San Diego and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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.
|
