Fundamental Lessons Learned Through More than 30 Years of Research and Teaching
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In this Lecture, Dr. Hoveyda will tell the story of the webs that his students have, often unwittingly, spun through the years and how they have let us see some of the wonders of the natural world.
A strand of a spider’s web gives little away about its overall outline. Not unless the gossamer is viewed from the distance that only time can create. Data are the strands we spin in our laboratories, but it is the web – the “big picture” – that matters most.
In this Lecture, Dr. Hoveyda will tell the story of the webs that his students have, often unwittingly, spun through the years and how they have let us see some of the wonders of the natural world.
About the Speaker
Amir Hoveyda, PhD
Hoveyda is the Vanderslice Millennium Professor of Chemistry at Boston College and Director of the Laboratories for Catalytic Chemical Synthesis at the Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaire at the University of Strasbourg. He received his B. A. at Columbia, his PhD at Yale, and was an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. Hoveyda’s honors include the 2010 Yamada-Koga Prize, the 2014 ACS Award for Creative Work in Organic Synthesis, a 2014 Eni Prize, and the 2020 ACS H.C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods. His research is in the general area of mechanism-based development of concepts, catalysts and strategies in chemical synthesis. Hoveyda has published more than 270 research and 40 review articles, and is a principal co-founder of XiMo, AG. Beyond research and teaching, he is an avid reader (mostly fiction, some non-fiction) and a dedicated gardener (Japanese/Zen style). He has a longtime passion for fast Italian cars, several of which he has had the pleasure of owning and driving.
Sponsored by the Department of Chemistry.