Sangtae Kim, vice president of Lilly Research Laboratories(LRL), a division of Eli Lilly & Co., will visit Cornell University Monday, April 15, through Wednesday, April 17, to deliver the 15th annual Julian C. Smith Lectures in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

His talks, both at 4 p.m., will be "Informatics in Pharmaceutical R&D" on April 15 in 165 Olin Hall and "Microfluidics of Sharp Corners and Edges" on April 17 in 255 Olin Hall. Both lectures are free and open to the public.

Kim's departments at LRL are responsible for informational technology in pharmaceutical research and development, including discovery research, preclinical development, clinical research, regulatory affairs and product teams.

Kim currently serves on the National Research Council's Board of Chemical Sciences and Technology and represents the Society of Rheology on the U.S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and in 2000 chaired the executive board of the institute's national programming committee. He is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and last year was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering.

Prior to working for LRL, Kim held a similar position at Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research, a division of Warner-Lambert Co. From 1983 to 1997, he was a faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, including a term as department chair.

The Julian C. Smith Lectureship in Chemical Engineering was established in 1988 by members of the Cornell chemical engineering class of 1962 and other friends, colleagues and former students to honor the professor emeritus of chemical engineering. Each year the fund brings a leader in the Þeld of chemical engineering to Cornell to lecture and interact with students and faculty members.