Arnold C. Ott Lectureship in Chemistry
The Arnold C. Ott Lectureship in Chemistry was created and endowed by a generous gift from Dr. Arnold C. Ott and Marion Ott. Dr. Ott received his Ph.D. in 1943 from Michigan State University in Chemistry/Physics/Bacteriology and is a leading chemist and entrepreneur in West Michigan. He is one of the co-founders of Grand Valley State University and served on the GVSU Board of Trustees for 28 years.


Community Lecture: Microplastics are Here, There and Everywhere
- Thursday, April 14, 6:00 - 7:00 pm Grand River Room,
- Russel H. Kirkhof Center, Allendale Campus
- Reception begins at 5:00 pm
Chemistry Seminar: Synthetic Approaches to Sustainable Materials
- Friday, April 15, 1:00 - 2:00 pm Pere Marquette Room
- Russel H. Kirkhof, Center Allendale Campus
Kirkoff Center, GVSU
Anne McNeil is the Carol A. Fierke Collegiate Professor of Chemistry and Macromolecular Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. She is also an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and HHMI Professor. Her current research interests include chemical recycling of waste plastic, methods for capturing microplastics, developing adsorbents for poly- and per-fluoroalkylsubstances, and identifying new materials for redox flow batteries. She has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, AAAS Fellow, Sloan Fellow, Dreyfus Fellow, Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award, Claudia Joan Alexander Trailblazer Award, and the Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize, among others. Prior to Michigan, Anne was a L’Oreal Post-doc Fellow with Prof. Tim Swager at MIT and earned her PhD from Cornell with Prof. Dave Collum, and graduated summa cum laude with a BS in Chemistry from the College of William and Mary (1999).
Previous Ott Lecturers
Vernon Ehlers, Ph.D.
U.S. Congress
Michael D. Parker, M.B.A.
Dow Chemical Company
Carl Djerassi, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Robin D. Rogers, Ph.D.
University of Alabama
Virginia W. Cornish, Ph.D.
Columbia University
Richard N. Zare, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Thomas H. Lane, Ph.D.
Dow Corning Corporation
Chad A. Mirkin, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
Gregory A. Petsko, Ph.D.
Brandeis University
Harry B. Gray, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
Gary M. Hieftje, Ph.D.
Indiana University
Roderick MacKinnon, M.D.
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
The Rockefeller University
Kevan Shokat, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
Ada Yonath, Ph.D.
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Weizmann Institute of Science
W. Carl Lineberger, Ph.D.
University of Colorado, Boulder
Richmond Sarpong, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
Jeffrey Moore, Ph.D.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Wilson Ho, Ph.D.
University of California, Irvine
Geraldine Richmond, Ph.D.
University of Oregon
Sara E. Skrabalak, Ph.D.
Indiana University
Thomas J. Meyer, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Brian K. Shoichet, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
Daniel M. Neumark, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
Stephen L. Buchwald, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Melanie Sanford, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Karen Trentelman, Ph.D.
Getty Conservation Institute