News, Events & CEMS Seminars

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
Past Issues
DEPARTMENT NEWS

Chris Macosko, CEMS Professor Emeritus, named 2023 Charles Goodyear Medalist
Posted November 16, 2022
Nov 16 2022 - Chris Macosko, CEMS Professor Emeritus, was named the 2023 Charles Goodyear Medalist. The most prestigious award given by Rubber Division, American Chemical Society (ACS) was established in 1941 to perpetuate the memory of Charles Goodyear as the discoverer of the vulcanization of rubber.

Bhan wins Emmett Award in Fundamental Catalysis
Posted November 15, 2022
Nov 15 2022 - This award recognizes and encourages individual contributions in the field of catalysis with emphasis on discovery and understanding of catalytic phenomena, proposal of catalytic reaction mechanisms and identification of and description of catalytic sites and species.

Emily McGuinness awarded an ASEE eFellows postdoctoral fellowship
Posted November 9, 2022
Nov 9 2022 - Dr. Emily McGuinness, a postdoctoral scholar co-advised by Professors Vivian Ferry and Chris Ellison, was recently awarded an American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) eFellows postdoctoral fellowship, with funding provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Kumar Delivers William Pierson Field Lectures at Princeton University
Posted November 8, 2022
Nov 8 2022 - Satish Kumar recently gave two talks at Princeton University as part of the William Pierson Field Lecture initiative. This initiative brings prominent engineers and scientists to Princeton as visiting lecturers, with the unique feature that the visitors also give a lecture in a course.

CEMS undergraduate Michelle Quan selected for "Future Leaders in Chemical Engineering Symposium"
Posted November 1, 2022
Nov 1 2022 - Michelle Quan (ChE, MSE '23) was among 24 participants selected to attend the recent "Future Leaders in Chemical Engineering Symposium" at North Carolina State University.

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."

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.

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.

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).

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