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-20- Graduate Program Seminar Series Winter 2011 2/24 Pedro Cabrales, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, 1/6 Randall Meyer, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Density Functional Th eory Studies NOx Storage Reduction Catalysis” 1/13 Ian Wheeldon, Post-doctoral Fellow, Th e Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, and Th e Center for Biomedical Engineering, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, “Proteins as Materials: Engineering Multi-Functional and Biologically Active Hydrogels” 1/27 Sunho Choi, Dreyfus Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, “Engineering Nanostructured Materials for Clean Energy” 2/3 Susan Napier Th omas, Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratory for Lymphatic & Cancer Bioengineering, Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine & Pharmacobiology, Institute of Bioengineering, Swill Federal Institute of Technology, “Biochemical Engineering of Cancer Immunotherapeutics” 2/10 Rui Huang, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, “Advanced Control and Dynamic Real-time Optimization for Large-scale Processes” 2/17 Zeynep Gumus, Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, “Construction, Analysis and Visualization of Networks in Systems Engineering” University of California, San Diego, “Gasotransmitters From Earth’s Primordial Atmosphere to Key Regulators of the Cardiovascular System” 3/3 Lisa Hall, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Computational Materials Science and Engineering, Sandia National Laboratories, “Ionic Aggregate Morphology and Counterion Diff usion in Model Ionomers” Spring 2011 4/7 Jonathan Dordick, Howard P. Isermann Professor and Director of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, “Enzyme-Based Nanocomposites: From Topological Stabilization to Self-Decontaminating Surfaces” 4/14 Suljo Linic, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, “Design of Targeted Nanostructures for Effi cient and Environmentally Friendly Catalysis and Photo- Catalysis” 4/21 Mark McCready, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, “Limits of Analysis (in multiphase fl ows)” 4/28 Jennifer Maynard, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, “Discovery and development of biologicals to protect against Bordetella pertussis” 5/12 Jacob Masliyah, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemical and Materials En gineering, University of Alberta, “Bitumen Production from Alberta Athabasca Oil Sands: Challenges and Opportunities” 5/19 Frank Bates, Lowrie Lecture I, Regents Professor and Department Head, Chemical and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, “Macromolecular Surfactants” 5/20 Frank Bates, Lowrie Lecture II, Regents Professor and Department Head, Chemical and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, “Refl ections on Our Discipline: A Tribute to Neal Amundson” 5/26 Robert Weiss, Hezzleton E. Simmons Professor of Polymer Engineering, College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, “Shape Memory Polymers Based on Compounds of an Ionomeric Elastomer and Fatty Acid Salts” 6/2 Jacqueline Shanks, Mamley Hoppe Professor, Metabolic Engineering Leader, NSF Engineering Research for Biorenewable Chemicals, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University, “Metabolic Flux Cartography – On the Road to Sustainable Food, Feed, Fuels and Chemicals” Autumn 2011 9/29 Xiaoan Sean Fu, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Louisville, “A Microreactor Device Approach for Analysis of Trace VOCs in Exhaled Breath”
10/6 Frank Shu, Professor Emeritus, University of California at San Diego and Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, “New Approaches to Alternative Energies” 10/13 Graduate Research Initiative Program (GRIP) Seminar: Michael J. Coolbaugh, “Selection of Intein Variants with Enhanced Cleaving Control using Yeast Surface Display,” Kalpesh Mahajan, “Magnetic Quantum Dots Coupled With Magnetic Microarrays for Molecular Detection and Separation,” Ray Kim, “Status of the Iron Based Chemical Looping Processes Developed at Th e Ohio State University” 10/27 Nehal Abu-Lail, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Bioengineering, Washington State University, “Nanoscale Investigations of Bacterial Physiochemical Properties and Interactions” 11/3 John Kitchin, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, “Oxygen Evolution on Mixed Metal Oxide Electrocatalysts” 11/10 David Barton, Lead Research Scientist, Th e Dow Chemical Company, Catalysis R&D, “Synthesis and Characterization of Gold Nanoparticles” 11/17 Arup Chakraborty, Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering, Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “How to Hit HIV Where it Hurts” 12/1 Kaushal Rege, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, Arizona State University, “Synergistic Approaches in Molecular and Nanoscale Th erapeutics and Delivery Systems for Cancer Diseases” Graduate Student Awards Hyunkyu Choi: Outstanding Graduate Award for Academic Achievement, Lowrie Banquet Jacob Elmer: Outstanding Graduate Award for Academic Achievement, Lowrie Banquet Daniel Knight: Outstanding Graduate Award for Academic Achievement, Lowrie Banquet Congcong Lu: Outstanding Graduate Award for Academic Achievement, Lowrie Banquet Laura Merugula: Accepted to attend the 2nd Women’s International Research Engineering Summit – March 30 – April 1, 2011. Elif Miskioglu: Special Recognition at the Lowrie Banquet, Selected to receive an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship; Accepted into the HHMI MED into GRAD Scholars Program at Th e Ohio State University Kelley Mullick: Outstanding Graduate Award for Academic Achievement, Lowrie Banquet Kartik Ramasubramanian: Outstanding Graduate Award for Academic Achievement, Lowrie Banquet; 2011 AIChE Separations Division Graduate Student Award Shreyas Rao: Won the Ray Travel Award from the Council of Graduate Students, Special Recognition, Lowrie Banquet, American Institute of Chemists (AIC) Outstanding Graduate Student Award Haifeng Shi: Outstanding Graduate Award for Academic Achievement, Lowrie Banquet, Won Travel Grant from the Society of Rheology to attend the 83rd Annual Meeting, Received Presidential Fellowship from the Graduate School Shweta Singh: Outstanding Graduate Award for Academic Achievement, Lowrie Banquet Deepak Sridhar: Outstanding Graduate Award for Academic Achievement, Lowrie Banquet Ru Zang: Outstanding Graduate Award for Academic Achievement, Lowrie Banquet Yanan Zhao: Won the 2011 Eliaz Klein Founders’ Travel Award to attend the 2011 Annual Meeting of NAMS in Las Vegas, NV Bottom left : New graduate student orientation Bottom Right: Graduate student welcome event
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