{"id":5137,"date":"2017-09-18T17:41:15","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T00:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/?p=5137"},"modified":"2017-09-18T17:41:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T00:41:15","slug":"marilyn-olmstead-65-to-deliver-2017-tom-dunne-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2017\/09\/marilyn-olmstead-65-to-deliver-2017-tom-dunne-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Marilyn Olmstead &#8217;65 to Deliver 2017 Tom Dunne Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/chemistry.ucdavis.edu\/faculty\/images\/marilyn-olmstead.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>\u00a0U. California-Davis Prof. Emeritus <a href=\"http:\/\/chemistry.ucdavis.edu\/faculty\/department_faculty\/emeriti\/marilyn_olmstead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Marilyn Olmstead &#8217;65<\/strong><\/a> will return to the Reed campus on <strong>Thursday, September 21<\/strong> to deliver the 2017 Tom Dunne lecture (<strong>Bio 19, 4:15 pm, free, open to public<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Her talk, &#8220;<strong>Fullerenes and Art<\/strong>,&#8221; will examine the soccer ball-shaped\u00a0molecules\u00a0that chemists are\u00a0making\u00a0in the laboratory from several perspectives:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More than 500 years ago Leonardo da Vinci built a wooden 60-vertex closed object \u2014 a &#8220;truncated icosahedron&#8221; \u2014 and he made a drawing of it for a math textbook. A little over 30\u00a0years ago, chemists discovered a molecular, all-carbon cage with exactly this shape. The\u00a0excitement and appeal of this discovery has sparked interest not only in the fields of chemistry,\u00a0but also in astronomy, art, and electronic materials. Prof. Olmstead will discuss some of her\u00a0crystallographic results while portraying how the fullerenes have become an iconic part of our\u00a0lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Marilyn shared some biographical info with us ahead of her\u00a0lecture:\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I majored in chemistry and graduated with a B.A. from Reed, class of &#8217;65. Tom\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Dunne<\/span>\u00a0was my senior thesis advisor. I attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, from 1965 \u2013 1969 and received my Ph.D. in chemistry with Professor Richard Fenske as my thesis advisor. My focus at the time was molecular orbital theory, but I was not thrilled with the slow computers and use of IBM cards for carrying out the computations. My interest in crystallography was sparked by Tom\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Dunne<\/span>\u00a0at Reed, and a grad school thesis committee member, Professor Larry Dahl. I decided to follow that interest a few years after moving to UC Davis with my husband, Alan, in 1969. At first I worked as\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Lecturer<\/span>\u00a0and as a post-doc while I learned crystallography from Professor H\u00e5kon Hope. The chemistry department then appointed me as a Specialist, and I directed the departmental crystallography facility until 2003, when I was appointed Full Professor. I became Emeritus in late 2015.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0U. California-Davis Prof. Emeritus Marilyn Olmstead &#8217;65 will return to the Reed campus on Thursday, September 21 to deliver the 2017 Tom Dunne lecture (Bio 19, 4:15 pm, free, open to public). 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