Posted on Nov 3, 2006

Dr. John Vincent, professor of chemistry and coordinator of the Coalition for Biomolecular Products at the University of Alabama, will speak at the sixth annual Howell Clark Distinguished Chemistry Alumni Seminar at Murray State University. The seminar is named for former MSU chemistry professor Dr. Howell Clark. The lecture is scheduled for Monday, Nov. 6, at 3:30 p.m. in 306B Blackburn Hall on campus. The topic is “Recent Advances in the Nutritional Biochemistry of Chromium (III).” Everyone is invited to attend. Vincent is a 1984 summa cum laude graduate of Murray State with a B.S. in chemistry and mathematics. He followed his undergraduate work in Murray with a Ph.D. at Indiana University in Bloomington in the fields of inorganic chemistry and physical chemistry. Prior to beginning his work at the University of Alabama in 1991, Vincent was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville through the National Institutes of Health, and was a Postdoctoral Research Associate there earlier. Vincent has received a number of awards recognizing his research, leadership and teaching. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, the Alabama Academy of Science and the International Society for Trace Element Research in Humans, as well as a number of other organizations. A prolific writer and researcher, Vincent has 116 refereed publications and book chapters in print or in press, one book in print, one edited book in progress and holds seven patents. Vincent's research has focused on adult-onset diabetes, which is 90 percent of all diabetes cases in the United States, and a chromium compound that has been found to delay the onset of colorectal cancer in rats. For more information about the lecture, contact Dr. Ricky Cox at MSU at (270) 809-6543.