Chemistry Lecture to Feature Michael Doyle


	Office of News and Information October 20, 2003

Chemistry Lecture to Feature Michael Doyle

Dr. Michael P. Doyle

Dr. Michael P. Doyle, professor and chair of chemistry/biochemistry at the University of Maryland, will be featured in a Welch Foundation Lecture in Chemistry at UT Tyler on Monday, Oct. 20.

“The Excitement of Research in the Undergraduate Environment” will be the topic of the lecture, which will begin at 1 p.m. at the UT Tyler Robert R. Muntz Library, Room 401. The lecture will be open to the public. A reception will follow, sponsored by the Student Affiliate Chapter of the American Chemical Society.

A native of Minneapolis, Doyle received a bachelor of science degree from the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., and, working under the direction of Walter S. Trahanovsky, obtained a doctorate degree from Iowa State University.

Following a postdoctoral engagement with Jan Rocek at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, he joined the faculty at Hope College, Holland, Mich., in 1968.

In 1984, Doyle joined Trinity University in San Antonio as the Dr. D. R. Semmes Distinguished Professor of Chemistry. In 1997 he relocated to Tucson, Ariz., to serve as vice president and then president of Research Corporation and professor of chemistry at the University of Arizona. He joined the faculty at the University of Maryland, College Park, this year.

Doyle is the recipient of a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (1973), a Chemical Manufacturers Association Catalyst Award (1982), the American Chemical Society Award for Research at Undergraduate Institutions (1988), Doctor Honoris Causa from the Russian Academy of Sciences (1994), Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award (1995), the James Flack Norris Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education (1995) and the George C. Pimentel Award for Chemical Education (2002).

He has written or co-authored 10 books, 16 book chapters and has co-authored more than 240 journal publications. His research interests include asymmetric catalysis and its applications, the design and development of dirhodium (II) compounds, metal carbene chemistry, the chemistry of diazo compounds and new methods for the synthesis of macrocyclic compounds.

For more information about the lecture, contact Dr. Don McClaugherty, UT Tyler chemistry department chair, at 903-566-7196.

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