Honoring the Legacy of Wilma Werth

• Gathering and conversation• Remarks about Wilma • History and Impact of the Werth

Lectures in Chemistry • Words from Don Myrvik • Remarks from Gerald Werth • Spontaneous remarks from guests• Closing remarks • Further Conversation

Memorial ServiceWilma Werth

Tomorrow, 10:30 amPeace Lutheran Church1011 12th Ave N Fargo ND

Wilma Werth

The Richard G. Werth Endowed Lectureship in Chemistry

1999 – 2015+

Wilma and Gerald established an endowment to…

Wilma and Gerald established an endowment to… “support the Richard G. Werth Lectureship in Chemistry, a public event to exemplify excellence in the teaching of chemistry, and to promote an understanding of the many careers in chemistry.”

Wilma and Gerald established an endowment to… “support the Richard G. Werth Lectureship in Chemistry, a public event to exemplify excellence in the teaching of chemistry, and to promote an understanding of the many careers in chemistry.”

With the integral help of Don Myrvik the funds for the endowment were provided largely from the sale of Richard’s enormous stamp collection.

The Werth Lectureships…• Take students to the forefront of science• Invigorate faculty • Inspire students• Establish a network for students and faculty• Elevate the status of the Department

Honoring our own

Jody C. Redepenning '80 University of Nebraska - Lincoln

An Electrochemical Smorgasbord

Jan H. Jensen '90 University of Iowa Understanding the Hydrogen Bond Using Quantum ChemistryGlen Kuehn '64 New Mexico State

UniversityThe Human Genome Project: Opportunities for Everyone (And Especially Chemists) in the Genomic Sciences

John Herrman '65 World Health Organization

The role of Scientific Assessments in the Development of International Food Standards

Ann T.S. Taylor '93 Wabash College Involvement of a Dual Specificity Phosphates in Plant Defense Response

Honoring our mentorsDennis C. Johnson Iowa State University Oxidative degradation of organic wastes using electricity Louis Pignolet University of Minnesota Adventures in Transition Metal-Gold Chemistry: The progression of

research via good students and a little luckPatricia Theil Iowa State University A Mystery of Nature: QuasicrystalsGregory Reinhart Texas A&M University 2-Photon Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy: A New Tool to

Study Macromolecular BehaviorElias K. Michaelis University of Kansas Life Among Neurons: Excitation, Alcoholism, Aging and

NeurodegenerationW. Robert Scheidt University of Notre Dame Nitric Oxide and Hemes: From Toxic Gas toe NRVS

Current and future stars

Aquaporin Water Channelsthe Nobel Lecture

• Peter Agre, M.D.• University Professor and Director• Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute• Bloomberg School of Public Health• Baltimore, Maryland

Richard Werth Memorial Lecture

Department of Chemistry

Concordia College, Moorhead MN

06 February 2009

Cake!

Excellence continues

Werth 2015Professor Keith NelsonDepartment of ChemistryMIT

(April 24 & 25)

Light Interactions With Matter: The Gift that Keeps on Giving, and How Two Concordia College Students Helped Shepherd Our Gift

Memorial ServiceWilma Werth

Tomorrow, 10:30 amPeace Lutheran Church1011 12th Ave N Fargo ND

Concordian Jan 14, 1977

Memorial ServiceWilma Werth

Tomorrow, 10:30 amPeace Lutheran Church1011 12th Ave N Fargo ND