The Jack Crandall Lectureship in Organic Chemistry

The Jack Crandall Lectureship in Organic Chemistry

The Jack Crandall Lectureship in Organic Chemistry was established in 2019. The Department of Chemistry expresses our gratitude to Jack Crandall, Professor Emeritus, IU Department of Chemistry for establishing the Jack Crandall Distinguished Lecture in Organic Chemistry. 

JACK CRANDALL  
Professor Jack Crandall received his B.S. (Honors) from the University of California (Berkeley) in 1960 and his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1963 where he was a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Predoctoral Fellow under the direction of Professor Jerrold Meinwald. He subsequently spent a year at Stanford University as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratories of Professor W. S. Johnson. He joined the faculty at Indiana University in 1964 and was promoted to full professor in 1973. Jack’s research focused on epoxides, highly unsaturated compounds, small ring systems, and organometallic cyclization reactions. He was co-author on more than 100 publications and was awarded both Sloan and Guggenheim Fellowships and a Fulbright Research Scholarship while at IU. 
 
Jack was a dedicated and meticulous educator.  He taught a highly respected and rigorous Organic Spectroscopy course to generations of graduate students, and his manuals defined the undergraduate organic laboratory curriculum for nearly two decades.  He received the Teaching Excellence Recognition Award from IU in 1997 and 1998 and the Leo F. Solt Distinguished Service Award from the Graduate School in 2001. He served as Associate Chair of the Department and Chair of the Graduate Standards Committee from 1997 until his retirement in 2010. 
 
Jack Crandall Lecturers 
2023 Richard Sarpong 
2022 Melanie Sanford