One of the college’s earliest Asian students, Dr. Benjamin Chu ’55 is a graduate and past trustee of SNC. He has built a distinguished career as a chemist, researcher and entrepreneur at SUNY-Stony Brook.
While attending Cornell University for graduate and postdoctoral work, Ben had the good fortune to study under the acclaimed physicist and physical chemist Dr. Peter J.W. Debye, winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Debye would prove to be a major and lasting influence on countless students, including Ben.
The purpose of the Chu Distinguished Lecture is to invite a featured lecturer, a scholar – oftentimes someone who serves as a physical scientist – who not only has reached a level of genuine distinction in their field but who also has demonstrated that faith plays a significant role in their work and/or personal life.
