“Organic Materials and their Applications”
On Saturday, November 15, 2014,
the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
awarded the 2014 Glenn T. Seaborg Medal to
Prof. Fred Wudl, Ph.D.
University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and co-director of the UCSB Center for Polymers and Organic Solids
Dr. Linda Wudl, Ph.D.
Former Vice President of Quality at Amgen
2014 Seaborg Symposium Program
Miguel Garcia-Garibay, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Welcoming Remarks
Mark E. Thompson, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California
“Getting Around the Current-Voltage Trade-off in Organic Photovoltaics”
Zhenan Bao, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
“Skin Inspired Electronics with Organic Materials”
Craig J. Hawker, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara
“New Approaches to Polymer Synthesis & Organic Building Blocks”
Ken Houk, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry, Saul Winstein Chair in Organic Chemistry, UCLA
“Computations of the Properties and Reactions of Organic Materials:
Adventures with Fred”
Fred Wudl, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, and co-director of the UCSB Center for Polymers and Organic Solids
“Organic Electronics and Organic Magnetism: a Solid-State Driven Quintet at Ambient Conditions”
More About Professor Fred Wudl, Ph.D. & Dr. Linda Wudl, Ph.D.
Linda and Fred Wudl both attended UCLA (where they met) and have since contributed a great deal to the sciences.
Prof. Fred Wudl has received numerous professional honors for his work in materials science, including the ACS Award for Chemistry of Materials and the Tolman Medal of the ACS Southern California Section. He holds both a BA and PhD in chemistry from UCLA and completed his postgraduate studies at Harvard University. Wudl was a professor at UCLA from 1997 to 2006, where he was also the director for both the Exotic Materials Institute and the Materials Creation Training Program. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Prof. Wudl is currently a part of the faculty at the UCSB Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and co-director of the UCSB Center for Polymers and Organic Solids.
Dr. Linda Wudl, who received her BS in microbiology and molecular genetics in 1967, was most recently the vice president of quality and compliance at pharmaceutical giant Amgen, where she worked for more than twenty years before her retirement. She also holds an M.A. in bacteriology from Harvard University and PhD in molecular biology from SUNY Buffalo.
The Wudls have been great supporters of the department. Most notably, the Linda and Fred Wudl Term Chair was started with a pledge from the Wudls in 2005 to support outstanding faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. By enabling the department to appoint either a junior or senior faculty member to the chair, the Wudls provided UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry with the maximum flexibility in attracting outstanding scholars at any stage of their careers. The department is delighted to honor the Wudls.
2014 UCLA Seaborg Symposium
2014 UCLA Seaborg Symposium Award Dinner
Congratulations to the Poster Session Winners!
On Saturday, November 15, 2014, a poster session was held as part of the 2014 Seaborg Symposium. The two categories of posters, undergraduate chemistry & postdoc/graduate chemistry, were judged separately. The winners were announced by Dean Joseph Rudnick at the evening banquet and awards ceremony.
