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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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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