The Reilly Lectureships
In 1945, Peter C. Reilly endowed the Peter C. Reilly Science Fund at the University of Notre Dame. This funds the Reilly Lectureships in both Chemistry and Biochemistry and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering as well as fellowships for students in both departments. Over 300 distinguished scientists from the United States and abroad have occupied the Peter C. Reilly lectureship in chemistry since 1948.
Peter C. Reilly was born in Providence, RI in 1869, the son of Irish immigrants. He attended LaSalle Academy in Providence and entered the coal-tar business in 1886. In 1900, he organized his own coal-tar distilling company in Indianapolis, IN, where he had moved in 1895. This company became known as the Reilly Tar and Chemical Corporation. Mr. Reilly was a director or trustee of numerous commercial, educational, and charitable organizations. He was a member of the State Advisory Council of the Indiana University Medical Center and a Lay Trustee of the University of Notre Dame, which conferred the honorary LL.D. degree on him in 1939. Mr. Reilly died in Indianapolis in 1952.
| Year | Lecturer | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Thomas Silhavy | Princeton University |
| 2023 | Angela Koehler | Massachusetts Institue of Technology |
| 2022 | Janet Smith | University of Michigan |
| 2022 | Marcetta Darensbourg | Texas A&M University |
| 2022 | Andrew Borovik | University of California - Irvine |
| 2022 | Pavel Jungwirth | Czech Academy of Sciences |
| 2021 | Andrei Tokmakoff | University of Chicago |
| 2021 | Tomislav Rovis | Columbia University |
| 2019 | Timothy Harris | Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| 2019 | Lorena Beese | Duke University |
| 2019 | Neil Garg | University of California - Los Angeles |
| 2019 | Lawrence Que, Jr. | University of Minnesota |
| 2019 | Kyoko Nazaki | University of Tokyo |
| 2018 | Francois Gabbai | Texas A&M University |
| 2017 | Seth Herzon | Yale University |
| 2017 | Daniel Crawford | Virginia Tech |
| 2017 | R. Graham Cooks | Purdue University |
| 2016 | Helen Blackwell | University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| 2016 | David Agard | University of California - San Francisco |
| 2016 | Clifford Kubiak | Yale University |
| 2015 | Karen Wooley | Texas A&M University |
| 2015 | Mina Bissell | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab |
| 2015 | Peter Wolczanski | Cornell University |
| 2015 | Sharon Hammes-Schiffer | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| 2014 | Larry Overman | University of California - Irvine |
| 2014 | T. Don Dilley | University of California - Berkeley |
| 2013 | Naomi Halas | Rice University |
| 2013 | Gregory Fu | California Institute of Technology |
| 2013 | David Walt | Tufts University |
| 2012 | Jennifer Doudna | University of California - Berkeley |