News and Events
Fall 2009 Seminars
All seminars are held in 102 Chemistry Building from 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. on Thursdays.
- Download the Fall 2009 seminar schedule.pdf - Schedule posted on 09/23/09
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Chao-Yang Wang
- Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
- Director, Electrochemical Engine Center (ECEC)
- The Pennsylvania State University
- "Water Management in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells"
- www.mne.psu.edu/Directories/Faculty/Wang-C.html
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Raymond Adomaitis
- Professor
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- University of Maryland
- "Thin Film Processing Challenges in Solar Energy and Nanomanufacturing Applications"
- www.umerc.umd.edu/facstaff/profiles/adomaitis.html
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Tony Jun Huang
- James Henderson Endowed Assistant Professor
- Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics
- The Pennsylvania State University
- "Fluidics: Interfacing Biology, Materials, and Photonics in the Micro/Nano Scale"
- www.esm.psu.edu/huang/
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Michael Strano
- Charles and Hilda Roddey Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- "The wonders of one dimensional chemistry: carbon nanotubes for single molecule biodetection and energy applications"
- http://web.mit.edu/cheme/people/profile.html?id=31
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Anthony Mchugh
- P. C. Rossin Senior Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering
- Lehigh Unversity
- "The Role of Phase Inversion in the Formation and Release Characteristics of Polymer-Based Drug Delivery Systems"
- www.che.lehigh.edu/blog/2007/01/anthony_j_mchugh.html
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Graeme Henkelman
- Assistant Professor
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- University of Texas at Austin
- "Adaptive kinetic Monte Carlo for simulating dynamics in atomic systems"
- www.cm.utexas.edu/graeme_henkelman
Thursday, October 22, 2009
John Vohs
- Carl V. S. Patterson Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- University of Pennsylvania
- "Development of High Performance Anodes and Cathodes for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells"
- www.seas.upenn.edu/cbe/vohs.html
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Corey O'Hern
- Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Physics
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Yale University
- "A Cornucopia of Particle Packings:
From Hard Spheres to Ellipses and from Polymer Packings to Folded Proteins" - www.seas.yale.edu/faculty-detail.php?id=80
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Mark Prausnitz
- Professor
- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- "Vaccination Using Microneedles"
- www.chbe.gatech.edu/fac_staff/faculty/prausnitz.php
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Ali Demirci
- Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- The Pennsylvania State University
- "Microbiological Engineering"
- http://www.abe.psu.edu/facstaff/demirci.htm
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Yi Tang
- Associate Professor
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- University of California, Los Angeles
- "Production of A Blockbuster Drug Using Biocatalysis"
- Group web site: www.seas.ucla.edu/~yitang/index.htm
- Department web site: www.chemeng.ucla.edu/Faculty/Faculty2.html