Lecture Series
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Robert A. Brown (B.S. ’73, M.S. ’75) |
| President, Boston University | |
| Sept. 1, 2015, POB 2.302, 3:30-4:30 p.m. | |
| “American Research Universities: The Alchemy of Quality” | |
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Joan Brennecke (B.S. ’84) |
| Keating-Crawford Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Deparment and Notre Dame Energy Center Director | |
| Sept. 15, 2015, CPE 2.218, 3:30-4:30 p.m. | |
| “Gas Separations with Ionic Liquids” | |
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Rachel Segalman (B.S. ’98) |
| Chair and Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara and Acting Director, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories Materials Science Division | |
| Sept. 22, 2015, CPE 2.218, 3:30-4:30 p.m. | |
| “Sequence: Polypeptoids as a Platform for Understanding the Role of Sequence on Controlling Polymer Properties” | |
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William J. Koros (B.S. ’69, M.S. ’75, Ph.D. ’77) |
| Roberto C. Goizueta Chair for Excellence in Chemical Engineering and GRA Eminent Scholar in Membranes, Georgia Tech | |
| Sept. 29, 2015, CPE 2.218, 3:30-4:30 p.m. | |
| “Advanced Membranes for Gas Separations: Entropy Engineering at the Sub-nanometer Scale” | |
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Amar Sawhney (M.S. ’89, Ph.D ’92) | |
| President and CEO of Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. and Chairman of Augmenix, Inc. | ||
| Oct. 6, 2015, CPE 2.218, 3:30-4:30 p.m. | ||
| “PEG Hydrogel Biomaterials: Medical applications and an entrepreneurial journey” | ||
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Christine Schmidt (B.S. ’88) |
| Pruitt Family Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida | |
| Oct. 13, 2015 CPE 2.218, 3:30-4:30 p.m. | |
| “Engineering Materials for Functional Nerve Regeneration” | |
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Jim Rawlings (B.S. ’79) |
| Paul A. Elfers Professor and W. Harmon Ray Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin Madison | |
| Oct. 20, 2015, CPE 2.218, 3:30-4:30 p.m. | |
| “The Modern Rites of Textbook Writing” | |
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Patrick Daugherty (Ph.D. ’99) |
| Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biomolecular Science and Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara | |
| Oct. 27, 2015, CPE 2.218, 3:30-4:30 p.m. | |
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Tobias Hanrath (M.S. ’02, Ph.D. ’04) |
| Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University | |
| Nov. 3, 2015 CPE 2.218, 3:30-4:30 p.m. | |
| “Connecting the dots – charge transport and localization in atomically coherent quantum dot solids” | |
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Guillermo Ameer (B.S. ’93) |
| Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Surgery, Northwestern University | |
| Nov. 17, 2015 CPE 2.218, 3:30-4:30 p.m. | |
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Jeffrey Gray (Ph.D. ’00) |
| Associate Professor and F. Stuart Hodgson Faculty Scholar Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University | |
| Dec. 1, 2015 CPE 2.218, 3:30-4:30 p.m. | |
| “Proteins Dancing the Texas Two-Step” | |
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