Editor’s note: Due to the federal government shutdown, Secretary Moniz’s lecture has been postponed.
Original news item:
Ernest Moniz, PhD, U.S. energy secretary, will speak about President Barack Obama’s climate action plan at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, at Washington University in St. Louis’ Laboratory Sciences Building, Room 300.
Moniz’s talk is the 52nd annual Joseph W. Kennedy Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences. A reception will follow.
Moniz
As energy secretary, Moniz is tasked with implementing critical Department of Energy missions in support of the president’s goals of growing the economy, enhancing security and protecting the environment.
Prior to his appointment, Moniz was the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a faculty member since 1973.
At MIT, he headed the Department of Physics and the Bates Linear Accelerator Center. Most recently, Moniz served as founding director of the MIT Energy Initiative and of the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment. He also was a leader of multidisciplinary technology and policy studies on the future of nuclear power, coal, nuclear fuel cycles, natural gas and solar energy in a low-carbon world.
Kennedy
Joseph W. Kennedy, PhD, served as chair of WUSTL’s Department of Chemistry from 1946-56 and is credited with sparking the growth of the department’s research and graduate programs while building on the undergraduate experience.
In 1941, Kennedy, along with colleagues Arthur C. Wahl and Glenn T. Seaborg, made history with the discovery of the element plutonium. Kennedy was active on the Manhattan project during World War II, leading the Chemistry and Metallurgy Division from 1943-45. For his service to the nation, Kennedy received the National Medal of Merit from President Harry Truman.
For more information, contact Rachel Linck, administrative officer for the Department of Chemistry, at (314) 935-6521 or
linck@wustl.edu.