from the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. She was recently appointed by President Biden as co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). The Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology, Arnold is one of today’s foremost chemical engineers and a leader in both the public and private sectors. Her pioneering methods of “directed evolution” have led to new means of manufacturing environmentally friendly fuels, pharmaceuticals, and other substances. Recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in chemistry, Frances Hamilton Arnold has harnessed the principles of evolutionary biology to generate novel and useful enzymes and other proteins that touch millions of lives every day.
Harvard will recognize seven with honorary degrees during today’s Honoring the Class of 2021 ceremony.
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