On March 18, Nobel Laureate Akira Suzuki, Professor Emeritus, Hokkaido University delivered a public lecture titled “Cross-Coupling Reactions of Organoboranes: An Easy Way for Carbon-Carbon Bonding.” The event was held in the Otto Maass Chemistry Building in front of a standing room only crowd of 150 people with an overflow crowd watching the lecture from a video feed in one of the undergraduate teaching laboratories. / Photo: Owen Egan