GOLDEN, Colo., Jan. 13, 2015 – The Colorado School of Mines Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry Lucas Lecture Series hosts Thomas Cech, University of Colorado-Boulder professor and Nobel laureate, who will present “Noncoding RNA: When the message is not the message,” Jan. 19 at 4 p.m. in Coolbaugh Hall, room 209.

Cech earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Grinnell College, his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and conducted post-doctoral research at MIT. He joined the faculty at CU-Boulder in 1978. He is a past president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and was awarded a lifetime professorship by the American Cancer Society.

He has received the Heineken Prize of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the National Medal of Science.

Mines Professors Kent Voorhees and Ron Klusman initiated the Lucas Lecture series in 1997 in honor of Professor George Lucas, a chemistry faculty member from 1956-88 who continued teaching until 2002. The lecture series aims to bring renowned chemists to share their research with the Mines community.

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Karen Gilbert, Director of Public Relations, Colorado School of Mines | 303-273-3541 | kgilbert@mines.edu
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