UMaine Phi Beta Kappa Ceremony Thursday April 13
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — William A. Klemperer, Erving Research Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, will be the guest speaker at the 2006 University of Maine Phi Beta Kappa initiation. The event is scheduled for Thursday, April 13. at 3 p.m. in the Buchanan Alumni House.
Klemperer, a National Academy of Sciences members who has received numerous awards from the American Chemical Society and the American Physical Society, as well as the Faraday Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry, will talk about “The Chemistry of the Universe” during his Thursday lecture.
On Friday April 14, at a Dept. of Physics and Astronomy/Dept. of Chemistry Colloquium, Klemperer will give a talk, “Making and Breaking of Weak Bonds: Intermolecular Forces.” The Friday lecture is set for 3:10 p.m. in Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium, in the Engineering and Science Research Building.
UMaine is home to one of only four Phi Beta Kappa chapters in Maine. The others are at Bowdoin, Bates, and Colby. Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest and best known academic honor society in the country.
Klemperer’s talks, which are part of UMaine’s Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program, are free and is open to the public.