Professor Benjamin Munson of the Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences is an internationally renowned scholar who makes enduring and significant contributions to undergraduate education, and who builds life-long relationships with students. These contributions are broad: mentoring students in research, providing students with support and guidance, and outstanding classroom teaching. Dr.

Will Pomerantz’s research addresses a longstanding question in chemical biology, which is whether protein-protein interactions (PPIs), which play an essential part in biological processes and human disease, can be affected by drugs. His research program seeks to understand the details of PPIs, with a focus on improving our knowledge of macromolecular recognition events. Professor Pomerantz uses a multi-pronged approach to inhibit PPIs and develop new synthetic molecules to both image and disrupt harmful PPIs, with applications to the treatment of cancer.