Award-winning chemist to speak at Ott Lectureship

A research scholar and award-winning chemist will be the featured speaker at the Arnold C. Ott Lectureship in Chemistry at Grand Valley State University.

Jeffrey Moore, professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, leads the Moore Group, which researches ways to make materials safer and last longer.

He will give a public lecture October 16, and a chemistry seminar for students October 17. Moore has published more than 300 articles covering topics from technology in the classroom to self-healing polymers and shape-persistent macrocycles.

October 16 lecture: “Self-Healing Polymers”
6 p.m.
Kirkhof Center, Grand River Room
Allendale Campus

October 17 seminar: “Polymer Mechanochemistry and the Concept of the Mechanophore”
1 p.m.
Kirkhof Center, Pere Marquette Room
Allendale Campus

Moore is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Chemical Society. He received the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and has been recognized as a “Faculty Ranked Excellent by their Students.” Moore served as an associate editor for the Journal of American Chemical Society for 14 years.

The Arnold C. Ott Lectureship in Chemistry was created and endowed by a gift from Arnold C. and Marion Ott. Arnold Ott was a leading chemist and entrepreneur in West Michigan. He was also one of the co-founders of Grand Valley and served on the Board of Trustees for 28 years.

For more information contact Felix Ngassa, GVSU associate professor of chemistry, at (616) 331-3803.