At the Water's Edge: Understanding Environmentally Important Processes at Liquid Surfaces

Geraldine Richmond is the Richard M. and Patricia H. Noyes Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oregon. She is also the founder and chair of the Committee on the Advancement of Women Chemists, an organization assisting in the advancement of women faculty in the sciences. Richmond's research applications of nonlinear optical spectroscopy and computational methods to the chemistry that occurs at complex surfaces and interfaces have relevance in numerous areas, including energy production, environmental remediation, and atmospheric chemistry. Recent awards for her scientific accomplishments include the Spiers Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2004), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2007) and the Bomem-Michaelson Award (2008). Richmond received her bachelor's degree in chemistry from Kansas State University and her Ph.D. in chemical physics at the University of California, Berkeley. The 2010 President's Lecture in Chemistry and Part of the Women in STEM Series.