Yi Lu


Karcher Lecture to Kick Off Spring
Karcher Barton Lecture Series

Professor of chemistry Yi Lu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will visit the Norman campus of the University of Oklahoma as the inaugural spring lecturer in the Karcher Barton Lecture Series held through the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Lu received his B.S. from Beijing University, P. R. China in 1986 and his Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles in 1992. After two years of postdoctoral research at California Institute of Technology, he joined the faculty at Illinois in 1994. Professor Yi Lu's research interests are in bioinorganic chemistry.

The lecture, titled "Biosynthetic Inorganic Chemistry," will be presented 3:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 25 in 108 Physical Science Building.

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