As part of The University of Findlay’s 125th anniversary celebration, the College of Sciences welcomes UF alumna Jeanne Stuckey, Ph.D., to campus.

She will present “From Physics to Pharmaceuticals” at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, in Martin Lecture Hall, located in the Brewer/Frost College of Sciences building.

This event is free and open to the community.

On the University of Michigan campus, Stuckey, an assistant research scientist in the Life Sciences Institute, supervises the X-ray crystallography lab that assists researchers with structural biology questions.

She also is working on the structure of proteins involved with programmed cell death. Stuckey has contributed structures to the understanding of arthritis and diabetes, and the molecular tool kit of Yersina pestis, the virulent bacterium that caused the Black Plague.

Stuckey was graduated from UF in 1986 with a degree in natural science and was named Outstanding Senior Science Student that year. She completed a doctorate in biochemistry from Wayne State University in 1992. From 1993-96, she worked at the University of Michigan under a grant-funded American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship and was hired as a full-time staff member at UM in 1996.

She served on the UF Alumni Board of Governors from 1992-99, including a term as vice president from 1998-99. In 2000, she was named a Distinguished Alumna in recognition of her career achievements and her service to The University of Findlay.