Sir Run Run Shaw Lecture
2025 Series
Jimena Canales
Vice-Chairperson
American Council of Learned Societies
Associate Faculty, Harvard University
"As our Scientific Understanding of Time Changes, Does Time Change Too?"
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 | 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Harriman Hall Room 137
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The progress of science throughout the last centuries has increased our ability to
measure time with increased precision. In 2023, the Nobel Prize committee marked an
important milestone in this trajectory by awarding the prize in physics to researchers
who had created a new technology to study nature in attoseconds.
It is also a milestone in the widening breach between reality determined via scientific measurements and that perceived via our senses. What is the role of the humanities in studying these accomplishments? This talk will explore the possibility of introducing a new concept of time to bridge the divide between scientific and intuitive understandings of nature.
Jimena Canales is an award-winning Mexican-American historian of science. Her scholarly work on the history of science has been published in Isis, Science in Context, History of Science, and the British Journal for the History of Science, among others. Canales’ work on visual, film and media studies has appeared in Architectural History, Journal of Visual Culture, and Thresholds. She writes for general readers, publishing in Aperture, Artforum, WIRED, Nautilus, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker.
Shelley Minteer
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Missouri University of Science and Technology
"Bioelectrocatalysis for Electrosynthesis"
Monday, April 7, 2025 | 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Wang Center Lecture Hall 2
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In the last five years, there have been extensive studies and new materials designed
for interfacing biocatalysts with electrode surfaces for applications in energy storage
and electrification of the chemical industry. This talk will discuss electroanalytical
techniques for studying biocatalysis, including both mediated enzymatic bioelectrocatalysis
and direct enzymatic bioelectrocatalysis.
Dr. Shelley Minteer is a professor of chemistry and the director of the Kummer Institute Center for Resource Sustainability at Missouri University of Science and Technology. She is also the director of the NSF Center for Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry.
She received her PhD in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Iowa, and her research interests are focused on electrocatalysis and bioanalytical electrochemistry.
Dr. Minteer has published more than 450 publications and has given more than 550 presentations at national and international conferences and universities. She has won several awards including the Luigi Galvani Prize of the Bioelectrochemical Society, International Society of Electrochemistry Tajima Prize and Bioelectrochemistry Prize, Grahame Award of the Electrochemical Society, Fellow of the Electrochemical Society and the International Society of Electrochemistry, American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Electrochemistry, and the Society of Electroanalytical Chemists’ Young Investigator Award and Reilley Award.