FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Leading Scientist to Present How Nanocrystals May Change the Future of
Concordia College Lecture series will also focus on careers in chemistry
Dr. Javier Vela will be Concordia’s 2023 Werth Lectures guest speaker. Vela will present “The Colloidal Chemistry of Binary Nanocrystals: A Segway into More Complex Materials for Energy Conversion, Chemical Catalysis, and Biological Imaging” for the research lecture, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21, in Barry Auditorium, Grant Center.
Vela will also present “What I Learned from Twenty-five Years as a Chemist: Lessons from Inside and Out of the Classroom and Laboratory” for the careers in chemistry lecture, at 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 22, also in Barry Auditorium.
Vela, university professor of chemistry at Iowa State University, has been a scientist with the U.S. DOE Ames National Laboratory since 2010. He holds a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Rochester. He joined Iowa State University in 2009 and became a full professor in 2019. He was named university professor as well as the John D. Corbett Professor of Chemistry in 2020.
The Richard G. Werth Lecture in Chemistry is funded by an endowment established by Richard’s wife, Wilma, and their son, Gerald, to exemplify excellence in the teaching of chemistry, and to promote an understanding of the many careers in chemistry. Dr. Werth taught at Concordia from 1950 to 1990.
The lectures are free and open to the public.
-30-
(kk)
23-120