Join us for our Winter Seminar Series with Dr. Rebecca Ruck! The seminar will be from 12-1pm in the Knight Campus Beetham Family Seminar Room followed by a pizza social on the Knight Campus terrace from 1-2pm. Dr. Rebecca Ruck is an Associate Vice President of Process Research & Development at Merck Pharmaceuticals. Rebecca runs Merck’s enabling technology group, an innovation incubator leveraging the diversity of the group to innovate how medicine is made. Becky is also actively involved in the external research community through academic collaborations, creation of Merck’s university lectureship series and recruiting efforts that have led to an unrivaled increase in the number of women in Merck’s Process R&D team. She has expanded her women in chemistry efforts externally through the WCC-Merck Research Award and Empowering Women in Organic Chemistry (EWOC) conference. For these efforts, Becky has been recognized with the 2018 ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences and as a 2020 HBA Rising Star and ACS Fellow. Please RSVP HERE.