Herbert Morawetz Distinguished Lectures
A listing of previous distinguished lectures in this series since its inception in 2003
Kathryn A. Whitehead, Carnegie Mellon University
Lipid nanoparticles for RNA delivery: COVID-19 vaccines, chemistry, and beyond
April 21, 2023
Frances Arnold, California Institute of Technology
Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life
November 12, 2021
Andrea Ghez, University of California Los Angeles
The Monster at the Center of our Galaxy
May 10, 2019
R. Graham Cooks, Purdue University
Intra-operative Brain Tumor Margins and Assessment by Mass Spectrometry
March 9, 2018
Richard W. Baker, Membrane Technology and Research Inc.
The Development of the Membrane Separation Industry
November 3, 2017
Gary S. Calabrese, Corning Inc.
Inventing the Future with New Materials
April 1, 2016
B. Rosemary Grant and Peter R. Grant, Princeton University
Evolution of Darwin's Finches
November 6, 2015
A. Douglas Stone, Yale University
Einstein and the Quantum
October 16, 2014
Hopi Hoekstra, Harvard University
From Darwin to DNA: The Genetics of Color Adaptation
October 10, 2013
Susan S. Golden, University of California, San Diego
How Bacteria Tell Time
November 9, 2012
Mark Schubin, Metropolitan Opera
The Fandom of the Opera: How the Audience for a Four-Century-Old Art Form Helped
April 27, 2012
Ira Tabas, Columbia University
How atherosclerotic plaques become dangerous
September 23, 2011
Joanna Aizenberg, Harvard University
Actuated “spiny” surfaces à la echinoderms: En route for adaptive materials
February 25, 2011
Robert B. Smith, University of Utah
The Yellowstone Supervolcano: Past, Present and Future
November 5, 2010
Michael D. Coe, Yale University
Maya Genesis: Origins of a New World Civilization
March 26, 2010
Hynek Wichterle, Columbia University
Pluripotent stem cells: A tool to model and study neural development
October 30, 2009
Sandra Faber, University of California, Santa Cruz
A Room with a View: Perspectives from Earth on the Cosmos
October 1, 2009
Cori Bargmann, Rockefeller University
Half a wiring diagram is better than none: How the nervous system generates flexible behaviors from a fixed anatomy
December 4, 2008
Carol K. Hall, North Carolina State University
Thermodynamics and Kinetic Origins of Alzheimer’s and Related Diseases: A Chemical Engineer’s Perspective
October 12, 2007
Harry Gray, California Institute of Technology
The Currents of Life: Electron Flow Through Proteins
September 27, 2007
Bonnie Bassler, Princeton University
Small-Talk: Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria
April 19, 2007
Naomi Oreskes, University of California, San Diego
The Rejection of Continental Drift
March 2, 2007
Jules Shafer, Controlled Chemicals Inc.
Therapeutic Targets for Delaying the Onset and Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease
December 1, 2006
Jindrich Kopecek, University of Utah
Swell Gels: From Hydrogel Implants to Nanomaterials Self-Assembled from Block and Graft Copolymers
October 27, 2006
Jerome Lando, Case Western Reserve University
Nanotechnology Begins in One Dimension
October 6, 2006
Rudolph A. Marcus, California Institute of Technology
Isotopic Puzzles in Stratospheric Ozone and in the Earliest Minerals in the Solar System – An Application of Chemical Physics to Geochemistry
April 26, 2006
Paul L. McEuen, Cornell University
Carbon Nanotube Transistors, Sensors, and Tiny Guitars
March 31, 2006
F. Sherwood Rowland, University of California, Irvine
Global Warming and Climate Change
October 28, 2005
Fernando Nottebohm, Rockefeller University
Neuronal Replacement in Adult Brain
September 30, 2005
Graham Williams, University of Wales
Molecular Dynamics of Amorphous and Liquid Crystalline Polymers as Studied by Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy
May 12, 2005
Renu Malhotra, University of Arizona
The Architecture of Planetary Systems
May 6, 2005
Charles S. Peskin, New York University
Fluid Mechanics and Fiber Architecture of the Beating Human Heart
December 3, 2004
Helmut Ringsdorf, University of Mainz
Polymer Science and Cell Biology: Tissue and Cell Specific Polymer Antitumor Agents from Lab to Clinic
October 14, 2004
Daniel Koshland, University of California, Berkeley
How Bacteria Find Their Way
April 15, 2004
David Tirrell, California Institute of Technology
Novel Macromolecules via Alternative Translations of the Genetic Code
March 12, 2004
Frank Bates, University of Minnesota
Block Copolymers: Designer Soft Materials
October 31, 2003