2026 Fred Pattison Lecturer - Dr. Melanie Sanford
This year, the Department of Chemistry was proud to host Dr. Melanie Sanford as the 2026 Fred Pattison Lecturer.
Melanie Sanford, the current Moses Gomberg Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees at Yale University in 1996 where she carried out undergraduate research in the laboratory of Professor Robert Crabtree. She pursued graduate studies at the California Institute of Technology working with Professor Robert Grubbs. Following postdoctoral work at Princeton University with Professor John Groves, she joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in the summer of 2003 as an Assistant Professor of chemistry. She was promoted to associate professor in 2007, to full professor in 2010, to Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in 2011, and to Moses Gomberg Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry in 2016.
On April 30th she presented:
Title: New Synthetic Methods for C–F Bond Formation: From Fundamental Science to Applications
On May 1st she presented:Title: Synthesis, Reactivity, and Catalytic Relevance of High Valent Transition Metal Organometallic Complexes
More details on Fred Pattison can be found here:
https://www.uwo.ca/chem//about_us/distinguished_lectureships/fred_pattison.html
