Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 22, 2005|Volume 33, Number 27|Two-Week Issue

Symposium honors chemist's
'30 years in the trenches'

Colleagues and former students of Yale chemist William L. Jorgensen are gathering on campus Friday and Saturday, April 29 and 30, to celebrate his three decades in academia.

"The Jorgensen Symposium: 30 Years in the Trenches" will bring the professor's former students from such far-flung locals as France, Japan, England, Spain and the United States to Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, where they will present talks about their current research.

Jorgensen, who holds the Conkey P. Whitehead Professorship in Chemistry, uses modern theoretical methods and computers to solve problems concerning structure and reactivity for organic and biomolecular systems. His research group is a leader in the development of force fields for water, organic and biomolecular systems and in the development of software for molecular modeling and drug design.

A member of the Yale faculty since 1990, Jorgensen recently received the Sato International Award (see related story, below). His other honors include the American Chemical Society Award (ACS) for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research, the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award and the Annual Medal of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences. He was an A.P. Sloan Foundation Fellow in 1979 and a Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar in 1978.

In 2003, Jorgensen was named editor of the Journal of Chemical Information & Computer Science, which is published by the ACS, the world's largest scientific society. He also has been editor of the Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry since 2001 and editor of the Journal of Computational Chemistry since 2002. He has authored or co-authored about 275 scientific papers.

"The Jorgensen Symposium: 30 Years in the Trenches" is open to the Yale community free of charge. A detailed schedule can be found at http://zarbi.chem.yale.edu/symposium.html.

Jorgensen wins Japan's Sato International Award

William L. Jorgensen, the Conkey P. Whitehead Professor of Chemistry, received the 2005 Sato International Award on March 28 in Tokyo, Japan. The award was presented to Jorgensen by Professor Yukio Sugiura, president of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan.

Jorgensen received the award in recognition of his contributions in the fields of structure-based drug design and prediction of drug properties.

The Sato Memorial Fund encourages development of pharmacology, therapeutics and pharmaceutical science through an exchange of scientists between Japan and the United States.

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