The Provost’s Awards Lecture Series continues this fall. Qiao-Hong Chen, Department of Chemistry, and Andrew Fiala, Department of Philosophy, will be presenting. They are both recipients of the 2017-2018 Distinguished Achievement in Research, Scholarship or Creative Accomplishment award.

Thursday, October 11, 2018
Henry Madden Library, Room 2206 (2nd Floor)
All lectures are from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Qiao-Hong Chen, Department of Chemistry

"The Quest for Natural Product-Inspired Anti-Prostate Cancer Agents"

Our research aims to engineer more effective derivatives and analogues of natural products for the potential treatment of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Four dietary natural products, together with one marine natural product, were selected as our lead compounds to develop potential anti-prostate cancer agents through appropriate chemical modifications. Dr. Qiao-Hong Chen will present the major findings from the medicinal chemistry and drug discovery efforts driven by the quest for effective anti-prostate cancer agents.

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Andrew Fiala, Department of Philosophy

"Peace: What is it Good For?"

Dr. Andrew Fiala will present ideas he discusses in his new book, Transformative Pacifism (Bloomsbury Press, 2018). Dr. Fiala's thesis is that peace is an important primary good that provides a focal point for ethical theory, while pacifism is best understood as a critical social theory. He will explain how pacifist critical theory can be applied in various contexts as a situated and self-conscious theory that aims at the incremental transformation of self, society, and world.