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Dateline: 4/1/2008

GONZAGA UNIVERSITY NEWS RELEASE
Dale Goodwin, Director
Peter Tormey, Associate Director

Noller to Deliver O'Leary Lectures April 14-15

Harry F. Noller, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will discuss "Ribosomes: Ancient Molecular Machines that Translate the Genetic Code" in the 22nd annual Timothy J. O’Leary, S.J., Lecture at 7:30 p.m., Monday, April 14, in the Cataldo Hall Globe Room on campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Noller, who earned a doctorate from the University of Oregon, completed National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowships in Cambridge, England and Geneva, Switzerland before joining the faculty at the UC-Santa Cruz, where he is the Robert L. Sinsheimer Professor of Molecular Biology and director of the Center for Molecular Biology of RNA (ribonucleic acid).

Noller has been recognized with several prestigious awards and honors for his leadership and accomplishments in the study of ribosomes, including the 2007 Gairdner International Award, the 2007 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, and the 2004 Massry Prize, among others.

The O’Leary Lecture is named for Rev. Timothy O’Leary, S.J., priest, GU alumnus and professor of chemistry from 1933 until his death in 1975. The series, presented by the Gonzaga science departments, is made possible through the generosity of Rev. O’Leary’s friends and former students. Rev. O’Leary, a native of Butte, Mont., is remembered as an outstanding professor, priest and counselor, and the prefect of DeSmet Hall, where he was often the arbiter of students’ issues.

While at Gonzaga, Noller also will speak on "Ribosome Structure and Dynamics: RNA Makes Protein in Four Dimensions" at noon, Tuesday, April 15, also in the Cataldo Hall Globe Room. This afternoon lecture also is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Howard Glass, Ph.D., director of Gonzaga’s Inland Northwest Natural Resources Research Center, at (509) 323-3888 or via e-mail at glassh@gonzaga.edu.