Dr. Kenneth Minneman of the recently opened King Abdullah University of Science and Technology will be on campus and speaking to chemistry, biochemistry, and biology students on Tuesday, December 2 at 11:00am (location to be announced). KAUST just opened two months ago on the shores of the Red Sea near Jeddah.
From Dr. Minneman:
"KAUST is a graduate only research university built on an $11 billion dollar new campus,
with stunning new facilities and a $20 billion endowment. We have world class facilities for doing state-of-the-art research targeted tosome of the major needs of the emerging world, including food, water,energy, environment, and computation. We have one of the fastestsupercomputers in the world, tremendous core facilitiies with nanofabrication, imaging, NMR, visualization, genomics, proteomics and many others.