Jonathan Sweedler gives third Adams Lecture at KU

November 2021 – KU's Chemistry Department welcomed its third Adams Lecturer on November 5, 2021, as Jonathan V. Sweedler, the James R. Eiszner Family Endowed Chair in Chemistry and Director of the School of Chemical Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, visited campus and gave a presentation on "High Throughput Single Cell Chemical Characterization of the Brain." Dr. Sweedler was presented with a framed, commissioned characture of Ralph "Buzz" Adams and a post-lecture reception was held after his lecture in the atrium of Gray-Little Hall open to all faculty and students.

The Ralph N. Adams Lectureship was established in 2017 to maintain cognizance of Dr. Adams's contributions as a scientist, mentor and humanitarian. The lectureship is jointly organized by KU's Department of Chemistry and the Adams Institute, and was made possible thanks to funding generously donated by two Adams research group alumni, Donald W. Leedy and Theodore Kuwana.