Pings Lecture
The Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science has announced a second keynote lecture series, and named it for the late
Cornelius J. Pings, a prominent chemical engineer and a renowned academic administrator.
Neal Pings served with distinction as provost at both Caltech, his alma mater, and at USC, where he held the chief academic officer position from 1981 to 1993, a period when the university achieved great gains in stature. He left USC to become president of the Association of American Universities (AAU), the Washington, D.C.-based representative of the nation’s top 60 research universities, and served there until 1998.
Pings was awarded the Presidential Medallion, USC’s highest honor, and Caltech’s Distinguished Alumnus Award. He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
2012 Speaker
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Alexis T. Bell
The Dow Professor of Sustainable Chemistry
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
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Past Speakers
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2011
Chryssostomos Chryssotomidis
Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"The Role of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) in Future Deepwater Oil Exploration and Production"
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2009
Frances H. Arnold
Professor, California Institute of Technology
"How Enzymes Adapt: Lessons from Artificial Selection of a Cytochrome P450 Oxygenase"
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2008
Daniel Schrag, PhD.
Harvard University
"Confronting the Climate-Energy Challenge"
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2008
Professor Matthew Tirrell (inaugural lecture)
"Peptide Materials Engineering"
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