In Brief
List Wins Carl Duisberg Memorial Award
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) Assistant Professor
Benjamin List has won this year's Carl Duisberg Memorial Award
from the German Chemical Society. The prestigious award, founded
in 1935, is given annually to young investigators in recognition
of highly original contributions to all areas of chemistry.
List, who will give an award lecture at the next annual meeting
of the German Chemical Society in March, is being honored
for his work in the area of asymmetric organocatalysis.
Reed to Speak in Faculty Lecture Series
Professor Steven Reed will speak on "Cell Cycle Control: Mechanisms
and Pathologies," as part of the Faculty Lecture Series on
Wednesday, February 12. The lecture will be held at 5 PM in
the Timken Amphitheater, Scripps Clinic, 10666 North Torrey
Pines Road.
Wüthrich to Give "NMR View of Macromolecules"
TSRI Visiting Investigator Kurt Wüthrich, winner
of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, will speak on "The
NMR View of Biological Macromolecules" on Tuesday, January
28, at 4 PM, in the Fishman Auditorium of The Burnham Institute,
10901 North Torrey Pines Road.
Symposium to Explore Frontiers in Chemistry
The TSRI Department of Chemistry presents the 14th annual
Frontiers in Chemistry Symposium on Friday, February 14. Talks
will include:
• TSRI Professor and Chair K.C. Nicolaou, introduction
and welcome, 9 AM;
• Professor W.A. Herrman of Technical University of Munich,
the Merck lecturer, will speak on "N-Heterocyclic Carbenes
and a New Generation of Organometallic Catalysts," from 9:10
to 10 AM;
• Professor Roger Kornberg of Stanford University, the
Pfizer lecturer, will speak on "Eukaryotic Gene Transcription,"
from 10 to 10:50 AM;
• Professor Herbert Waldmann of the Max-Planck-Institute
of Molecular Physiology, the Amgen lecturer, will speak on
"From Protein Domains to Drug Candidates: Natural Product
Guided Combinatorial Chemistry," from 11:30 AM to 12:20 PM;
• Professor Satoshi Omura of The Kitasato Institute,
the Array lecturer, will speak on "Discovery of Natural Products
with Specific Biological Targets," from 12:20 to 1:10 PM.
Lectures are open to all and will be held in the Neurosciences
Institute Auditorium, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive. A lunch
reception will be held in the Beckman Atrium after the talks.
Benefits Cards to Be Reissued Due to Error
Benefits Administration would like to advise medical plan
participants that an error has been found on the new benefit
card. Unfortunately, the policy number was printed incorrectly
on the front of the card. The medical plan administrator is
aware of the problem and Benefits Administration does not
anticipate any interruptions in claim payments. Please remember,
when utilizing services, to use the policy number ASOP90844,
which is printed correctly on the back of the card. Medical
plan participants will receive new cards within two weeks.
If you have any questions please contact Benefits Administration,
x4-8487 or email benefits@scripps.edu.
Last Chance for 2002 Tuition Reimbursement
Human Resources would like to remind you that tuition reimbursement
requests for courses completed during the 2002 calendar year
must be submitted by January 31 at 5:00 PM. Please contact
Jan-Michael Silbaugh, x4-9212, with questions regarding tuition
reimbursement policy.
New English-as-a-Second Language Class to Begin
A new English-as-a-second-language class will begin Tuesday,
January 28. Instructor Cassandra Wadkins' class meets from
6:30 to 8:30 PM every Tuesday evening in the Immunology Building
West Conference Room. The price for three months (12 classes)
is $60. Each intermediate-level English class is divided into
speaking and listening, idioms and vocabulary, and reading
and writing. If you would like to improve your English communication
skills and your understanding of friends, colleagues, movies,
television shows, and the news, this class is for you. The
instructor uses movies, games, television shows, grammar books,
songs, drawing and novels to teach standard American English.
Have fun and learn English at the same time! For more information,
please leave a message at x4-2176.
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