The Welch Foundation
The Welch Foundation, based in Houston, Texas, is one of the nation's largest private funding sources for basic chemical research. Since its founding in 1954, the organization has contributed to the advancement of chemistry through research grants, departmental programs, endowed chairs and other special projects at educational institutions in Texas. The Foundation hosts an annual chemical research conference in Houston that attracts hundreds of the leading chemists and sponsors the Welch Award in Chemistry. The Foundation also bestows the Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research, an award that recognizes the work of scientists who are early in their careers and working in Texas.
Karen L. Wooley - Sugar Plastics as Designer Next-Gen Sustainable Materials
Peidong Yang - Semiconductor Nanowires: From Nanolasers to Photochemical Diodes
Jeffrey S. Moore - The Mechanophore Hypothesis
Craig J. Hawker - Pushing the Limits of Polymer Synthesis through Controlled Polymerization...
Kristin M. Hutchins - Session III - "Plastics" of the Future
Sharon C. Glotzer - Assembly Engineering for Matter-On-Demand
Joanna Aizenberg - Multifunctional Materials with Self-Regulation
Zachariah A. Page - Session II - Hierarchical and Multifunctional Materials
David S. Ginger - Picturing Perovskite Photovoltaics
Michael Graetzel - Molecular Photovoltaics and the Rise of Perovskite Solar Cells
Chad A, Mirkin - Repurposing the Blueprint of Life Through Colloidal Crystal Engineering with DNA
Tomče Runčevski - Session 1 - Materials for Energy and Sustainability
Catherine Murphy, Conference Chair - 2023 Welch Conference Introduction
Makeda A. Tekle-Smith - Session III - Emerging Modalities and Applications
Karen L. Goldenberg - Organometallic Complexes and Molecular Oxygen
Matthew S. Sigman - Developing Data Science Tools for Organic Reaction Development
Abigail G. Doyle - Enabling Chemical Synthesis via Machine Learning
Stephen L Buchwald - Catalytic Processes for Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Formation
Kyoko Nozaki - Late Transition Metal Catalysts for Valorization of Unutilized Carbon Resources
Cathy M. Crudden - N-Heterocyclic Carbenes as Ligands for Planar Metal Surfaces and Nanoclusters
Sophie Rousseaux - Session IV - Transition Metal Catalysis
Shane W. Krska - Leveraging Advances in Catalysis and High Throughput Experimentation to Impact...
Alison Narayan - Biocatalysis and Complex Molecule Synthesis
Shannon S. Stahl - Aerobic Oxidation Reactions with Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysts...
Osvaldo Gutierrez - Session I - Asymmetric Catalysis and Modeling
Scott J. Miller - Asymmetric Catalysis in Complex Molecular Environments - Welch Conference 2024
Melanie S. Sanford, Conference Chair - 2024 Welch Conference Introduction
Frederick Brazelton - 2025 Welch Conference Introductory Remarks
Peter G. Schultz - 2025 Welch Awardee Lecture
Kevan M. Shokat, Conference Chair - 2025 Welch Conference Introduction