Fry Lecture Series to feature Chair of the American Chemical Society Inorganic Division

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The Arthur Fry Lecture Series presents T. Don Tilley, professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, will present "New Approaches for the Selective Functionalization of Hydrocarbons with Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysts," Monday, September 22, 2003, at 3:30 p.m., in CHEM 113 as part of the Arthur Fry Lecture Series. . The public is invited to attend.

Tilley is chair of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Inorganic Chemistry Division and is known for his research that involves exploratory synthetic, structural and reactivity studies on novel inorganic systems.

Since 2000 he has been awarded the Wacker Silicon Prize, been named an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, and received the ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry. He has been honored with two Union Carbide Innovation Recognition Awards, been named an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist, a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

He is a 1982 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a doctorate in chemistry. His experience includes being an NSF Exchange Postdoctoral Associate, at both the California

Institute of Technology and ETH, Zürich, Switzerland, a professor at the University of California, San Diego and Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The Arthur Fry Lecture Series began in 1997 through a generous donation from UA alumni Ves and Holly Childs to honor University Professor Emeritus Arthur Fry’s accomplishments in research, teaching, and mentoring, and for his many years of unselfish devotion to the department of chemistry and biochemistry.

He also holds a doctorate in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked with Nobel Laureate Melvin Calvin. Fry was named one of the first University Professors at the U of A and played a major role in the establishment of the doctoral program in chemistry. For 40 years, he provided leadership, serving two terms as department chair. His pioneering research earned him worldwide recognition as the father of the use of heavy atom isotope effects in elucidating the mechanisms of organic reactions. Although he officially retired in 1991, he continues to be active in the department. Schumann and his lab conduct experiments to monitor chemicals and chemical reactions in and near individual biological cells, essential to understanding how cells grow and communicate. He has also been instrumental in developing chemistry and materials for new sensor technology.

Schuhmann received a doctorate from the Technical University of Munich in 1986. Following advanced studies at the University of Texas, Austin, the University of Neuchatel (Switzerland), and the University of Lund (Sweden), he began his academic career at the Ruhr-University Bochum, one of Germany’s largest universities with about 39,000 students. Since 1996, he has been a professor of analytical chemistry at the Ruhr-University Bochum, one of Germany’s largest universities with about 39,000 studentsthere.. In 2000 he received the Biosensors & Bioelectronics Award and is currently an associate editor for a member of the editorial advisory board ofAmerican Chemical Society Journal, Analytical Chemistry. He has about 140 publications in internationally refereed journals.

The public is invited to attend.