About Richard Larock
The conference is sponsored by Distinguished Professor Richard Larock.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Richard C. Larock received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1972, after completing his undergraduate training at the University of California, Davis, in 1967. Since his arrival at Iowa State, he has been a fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a recipient of a DuPont Young Faculty Award, and a winner of two Merck Academic Development Awards, an Iowa Regent's Award for Faculty Excellence, the 2003 ACS Edward Leete Award, the 2004 Paul Rylander Award of the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society, and a 2004 ACS Arthur C. Cope Senior Scholar Award, and the 2009 ACS Award Midwest Region. He is the author of four books on organomercurials and synthetic organic methodology. Dr. Larock's research interests include organopalladium chemistry and organic polymers.
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Previous Larock Speakers
- 2026: Matthew Law, UC Irvine
- 2025: Osvaldo Gutierrez, UCLA
- 2024: Benjamin Garcia, University of Washington
- 2023: Stephanie Brock, Wayne State University
- 2022: Kim Prather, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
- 2021: Michael Rose, University of Texas
- 2020: Nicole Schirle, Gilead Science
- 2019: Bill Gerwick, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
- 2018: Craig Merlic, UCLA
- 2017: Kevin Gardner, CUNY Advance Science Research Center
- 2016: Jonathan Sweedler, University of Illinois
- 2015: Vy Dong, UC Irvine
- 2014: Michael Gelb, University of Washington
- 2013: David Wemmer, UC Berkeley
- 2012: James Mayer, University of Washington
- 2011: Richard Kaner, UCLA
- 2010: Richard Larock, Iowa State University
- 2009: Cynthia Burrows, University of Utah
- 2008: Kenneth N. Raymond, UC Berkeley
- 2007: Richard Larock, Iowa State University