PLU Activities at Duke

Hill Lecture: The Hill Lecture is an annual event in the Duke Chemistry department which is organized and enacted by our PLU chapter. Many distinguished speakers have journeyed to Durham to speak to the department about their fascinating science in memory of Dr. Douglas Hill (click for biography).

Academic Speaker: In addition to the Hill Lecture, PLU also brings in a separate academic speaker of marked accomplishment. In 2006, both Dr. Hector Abruña from Cornell University and Dr. Richmond Sarpong from University of California, Berkeley visited our department to give talks (they were wonderful) and meet with students (we were wonderful).

Non-Academic Speaker: Once a year, PLU sponsors a speaker who discusses subjects related to science, but not in an academic realm. This is a really great opportunity to see how people can be very directly involved with chemistry, but not actually doing chemistry. Some former non-academic speakers include Madeline Jacobs, then editor-in-chief of C&E News during the fall of 2001, and in the spring of 2003 Felice Frankel, science photographer and artist-in-residence at MIT.