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Leaders in Their Field presents

An African-American Woman's Journey
from Manure to DNA

Alison P. Williams, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
Frick Labs, Princeton University

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
WWU, Science Lecture Hall 120
6:30 PM

Alison Williams began her scientific career in high school working at the Ohio State Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster, Ohio. She received her undergraduate degree in chemistry from Wesleyan University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in biophysical chemistry from the University of Rochester where she was a NSF graduate fellow. She taught at Swarthmore College and Wesleyan University before joining the faculty of the Chemistry Department at Princeton University in 2003. Her research focuses on thermodynamic and kinetic properties of nucleic acids. Most recently her work emphasizes the role of ions in shaping the physical properties of oligonucleotides. She currently is a NSF ADVANCE Fellow. Dr. Williams has also received numerous recognitions for her teaching, outreach and mentoring activities for scientists of all ages.

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Seminars/Workshops

AMSEC Seminars

Biology Seminars

May 14th, 2008 4:00 PM BB 234	“Evolution of Flower Development: From Phenotypes to Genes”, by Veronica Di Stilio, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
May 28th, 2008 4:00 PM BB 234	“The Evolutionary Enigma of Sex”, by Sarah P. Otto, Professor, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
June 4th, 2008 4:00 PM BB 234	TBD”, by Phil Levin (Graduate student speaker)

Chemistry Seminars

May 16th, 2008 3:15 PM CB 285	David Peyton Ph.D. Portland State University (Chemistry) "Transforming Chloroquine to Combat Multidrug-Resistant Malaria"
May 23rd, 2008 4:00 PM SL 150	Charles P. Casey Homer B. Adkins Emeritus Professor of Chemistry University of Wisconsin-Madison (Chemistry) Chemistry Scholars Day Keynote Speaker "New Hydrogenation Catalysts and New Mechanisms for Hydrogenation"
May 27th, 2008 3:00 PM SL 120	Rebecca Swanson Western Washington University (Chemistry), Graduate Student, Thesis Defense "Applications of Noble Metal Complexes in Catalysis"
May 30th, 2008 3:15 PM CB 285	Juliette LeComte Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University (Biophysics) "Novel Chemistry in an Ancient Hemoglobin" 3:15 p.m. CB 285

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