News, Events & CEMS Seminars

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DEPARTMENT EVENTS

SPRING 2023 CEMS SEMINAR SCHEDULE

JANUARY & FEBRUARY

Tuesday, Jan. 17: No seminar, first day of classes in Spring semester

Thursday, Jan. 19: No seminar, training session for faculty, graduate students, postdocs

Tuesday, Jan. 24: CEMS faculty candidate (advertised internally)

Tuesday, Jan. 31: CEMS faculty candidate (advertised internally)

Tuesday, Feb. 7: CEMS faculty candidate (advertised internally)

Tuesday, Feb 14: CEMS faculty candidate (advertised internally)

Tuesday, Feb. 21: No seminar, information session invited by CEMS DEI Working Group - Inclusive Teaching faculty/staff for CEMS instructors and teaching assistants (current and future) and student-facing staff

Tuesday, Feb. 28: CEMS faculty candidate (advertised internally)

MARCH

March 6-10: No seminars: UMN Spring Break and APS meeting

Tuesday, March 21: Dr. Gianluigi A. Botton, McMaster University

Tuesday, March 28: Dr. Martha A. Grover, Georgia Institute of Technology

APRIL & MAY

Tuesday, April 4: Dr. Suljo Linic, University of Michigan

Tuesday, April 11: No seminar

Thursday, April 13, Amundson Lecture: Dr. Gilda A. Barabino, President of Olin College of Engineering

Tuesday, April 18, PPG Lecture: Dr. Subramanian Ramakrishnan, Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering

Thursday, April 20: Dr. Peter Bruggeman, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Tuesday, April 25, Fredrickson Lecture: Dr. Melody A. Swartz, The University of Chicago

Tuesday, May 2: Dr. Irene J. Beyerlein, UC Santa Barbara

CEMS NEWSLETTER

DEPARTMENT NEWS

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Paulina Eberts competing to win University-wide 3-Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition

Posted October 26, 2022

Oct 26. 22 - Congratulations to Paulina Eberts, a sixth-year PhD candidate co-advised by CEMS Professor Samira Azarin and Biomedical Engineering Professor Casim Sarkar, for winning the College of Science and Engineering (CSE) 3-Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition on October 20 for her topic "Decoding Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease."

Harish

Phenomenon behind cats' fur patterns may hold key to cancer recurrence

Posted October 20, 2022

Oct 20 2022 -CSE Ph.D. student Harish Venkatachalapathy’s research could lead to better treatments for breast cancer.

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CEMS postdoc Raisa Carmen Andeme Ela selected for a 2022-23 Mistletoe Research Fellowship

Posted October 19, 2022

Oct 19 2022 - Dr. Raisa Carmen Andeme Ela, a postdoctoral scholar in Professor Paul Dauenhauer’s research group, has been selected for a 2022-23 Mistletoe Research Fellowship (MRF) from the Momental Foundation.

Chris Leighton

Professor Leighton to lead NSF-sponsored Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC)

Posted October 18, 2022

Oct 18 2022 - University of Minnesota Twin Cities Professor Chris Leighton has been appointed by College of Science and Engineering Dean Andrew Alleyne as the new director of the National Science Foundation-sponsored Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC).

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View the "Industrial perspectives on data science in chemicals and advanced materials" webinar recording

Posted October 4, 2022

Oct 4 2022 -View the "Industrial perspectives on data science in chemicals and advanced materials" webinar recording

Ph.D. student Matt Hausladen with a soft robot in the lab

Engineers discover process for synthetic material growth, enabling soft robots to grow like plants

Posted September 28, 2022

An interdisciplinary team of University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has developed a new, plant-inspired extrusion process that enables synthetic material growth, and the creation of a soft robot that builds its own solid body from liquid to navigate hard-to-reach places and complicated terrain.

Chris Ellison

Ellison selected to receive Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering from Iowa State University

Posted September 27, 2022

Sept 27 2022 -Professor Christopher Ellison, the Zsolt Rumy Innovation Chair, has been selected to receive a Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering (PACE) Award from the College of Engineering at Iowa State University.

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CEMS researchers lead $10.6M federal grant to develop a more sustainable process for programmable catalysis

Posted September 18, 2022

Sept. 7 2022 - A team led by University of Minnesota Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science researchers has received $10.6 million over four years from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a new Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC)—the Center for Programmable Energy Catalysis (CPEC).

2022 TA Awards

CEMS graduate students honored with Outstanding Teaching Assistant (TA) Awards

Posted September 16, 2022

Sept. 16 2022 - CEMS is proud to honor these graduate students (listed below) for their accomplishments as outstanding teaching assistants (TA) during the previous academic year (AY 2021-2022). Nominated by their course instructor and selected by the CEMS Directors of Graduate Studies, these honorees received a monetary award and were recognized at a recent department ceremony.

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Supriya Ghosh receives Amelar and Lodge Fellowship

Posted September 6, 2022

Sept. 9 2022 -Supriya Ghosh has received the Richard D. Amelar and Arthur S. Lodge Fellowship for outstanding Collaborative Research in Materials for 2022-23.