{"id":6073,"date":"2023-03-25T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=6073"},"modified":"2023-03-23T14:16:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T19:16:13","slug":"obama-to-appear-in-kent-107-for-guest-organic-chemistry-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/25\/obama-to-appear-in-kent-107-for-guest-organic-chemistry-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama to Appear in Kent 107 for Guest Organic Chemistry Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HYDE PARK \u2014 The University of Chicago\u2019s vaunted\u00a0 Organic Chemistry sequence will have a special surprise for students this quarter: a guest lecture from the one and only President Barack Obama. According to the chemistry department, the former president will be lecturing on \u201cDiels-Alder olefination\u201d and \u201cHalonium-induced polyene cyclisation\u201d. We asked the former president his goals for the lecture, and he stated that he\u2019d like \u201cto show the youth the importance of the pharmaceutical industry to the American people and inspire a new generation of scientists to follow in the footsteps of the greats, like Fritz Haber.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bryan Dickinson, the lecturer for Organic Chemistry this winter, was seen in his office excitedly preparing a gift basket for Obama. Sources say it included \u201ccopious amounts of hair gel\u201d and \u201cseveral of Professor Dickinson\u2019s signed headshots\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Obama\u2019s appearance has him join a long and distinguished list of UChicago Chemisty Professors who just don\u2019t give a fuck.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama\u2019s appearance has him join a long and distinguished list of UChicago Chemisty Professors who just don\u2019t give a fuck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":902,"featured_media":6112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6074,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073\/revisions\/6074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}