Please join us for our 2025 lecture, “Tapping the Power of Chemistry: From Green Products to Brewing Innovation,” featuring Jim Hutchison, Knight Campus Senior Associate Vice President and Lorry Lokey Chair in Chemistry.

About Jim Hutchison — Jim Hutchison is a multi-million dollar recipient of research grants and awards who has harnessed the power of chemistry to produce new materials and useful products. In addition to co-founding his own company (Dune Sciences) based on his cutting-edge green chemistry research, he has pioneered numerous innovative education programs, including the first environmentally friendly organic chemistry laboratory curriculum. He is a champion of experiential and immersive graduate education programs, and helped develop what has become the UO’s Knight Campus Graduate Internship Program, an accelerated master's degree program that combines lab and lecture content with a 9-month paid internship, the development of the Knight Campus’ innovative Bioengineering PhD programand the Campus’ Bioengineering minor. Most recently, he launched the Knight Campus Brewing Innovation Lab which leverages science and engineering, history, innovation, and storytelling to teach the craft and science of brewing. 

*Starting at 5:30 pm, early arrivals are welcome to join us in the Cole Gallery (main venue entrance) prior to the lecture for an informal community networking opportunity. Beverages and cookies will be available for purchase. Doors to the lecture hall will open at 6:10 pm.