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Seminar: Laura Bardley, PSE/UMass, “HIP Materials: Harnessing Interfacial Phenomena to Design New Soft Materials”

Tuesday, December 11, 2018 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Charles Musgrave, University of Colorado Boulder, “Computationally Designed Organic Photocatalysis for CO2 Reduction and Photopolymerization”

Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Alumni Lecture 2: E. Terry Papoutsakis, University of Delaware, Title: “Metabolic Engineering AND/OR Synthetic Biology for improved biotechnological production: promises and realities”

Friday, November 16, 2018 - 1:00pm

Marriott Center, Campus Center (11th Floor)

Alumni Lecture 1: E. Terry Papoutsakis, University of Delaware, Title: “Native and engineered megakaryocytic microparticles for cell- and gene-therapies”

Thursday, November 15, 2018 - 11:30am

Amherst Room, 10th Floor, Campus Center

G.R.A.S.S. – Xiangan Li (Henson Group) and Eric Hernandez (Jentoft Group)

Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - 11:30am

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Seminar: Lonnie Shea, University of Michigan, “Immuno-Engineering in Cancer and Regenerative Medicine”

Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - 11:30am

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G.R.A.S.S. – Boyang Li (Henson Group) and Xiangxi (Zoey) Meng (Perry/Schiffman Group)

Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 11:30am

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Seminar: Bingjun Xu, University of Delaware, Title “Tailoring Efficient Renewable Catalytic Processes for a Sustainable Future”

Tuesday, October 16, 2018 - 11:30am

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G.R.A.S.S. – Whitney Blocher McTigue (Perry Group) and Sanket Sabnis (Fan Group)

Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - 11:30am

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Seminar: Notker Rösch, "To localize or not to localize, that is the question. Reduced centers of the MoVOx catalyst for hydrocarbon oxidation"

Monday, August 13, 2018 - 11:30am
Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany

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Graduate Seminar (G.R.A.S.S.) – Kiran Iyer (Muthukumar) and Koushik Ponnuru (Jentoft)

Tuesday, May 1, 2018 - 11:30am

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Graduate Seminar (G.R.A.S.S.) – Yooyeon Jo (Dimitrakopoulos) and Li-Wei Chang (Perry)

Tuesday, April 24, 2018 - 11:30am

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Exxon-Mobil Seminar: Bruce Gates, University of California, Davis , Title TBD

Tuesday, April 10, 2018 - 11:30am

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Seminar, Suzie H. Pun, U. of Washington, Title: “Bioactive, peptide-containing polymers for biomedical applications”

Tuesday, April 3, 2018 - 11:30am
Hosted by CBI

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Graduate Seminar (G.R.A.S.S.) – Abhinav Sharma (Forbes/Lee) and Bryan Sharkey (Jentoft)

Tuesday, March 27, 2018 - 11:30am

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Seminar, Brendan Harley, Univ. Illinois, Title: “Engineering complexity via biomaterial design”

Tuesday, March 20, 2018 - 11:30am

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Graduate Seminar (G.R.A.S.S). – Shuo Sui (Perry) and Mengxi Chen (Maroudas)

Tuesday, December 12, 2017 - 11:30am

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Graduate Seminar (G.R.A.S.S.) – Brandon Dunham (Dimitrakopoulos) and Yalin Liu (Perry)

Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - 11:30am

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Graduate Seminar (G.R.A.S.S.) – Sualyneth Galarza (Peyton) and Poonam Phalak (Henson)

Tuesday, November 28, 2017 - 11:30am

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Seminar: Lee Lynd, Dartmouth, “Low Cost Cellulosic Biofuels: New Questions in Pursuit of New Answers”

Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - 11:30am

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Seminar: Bernhard von Vacano, BASF, “Creating chemistry for a sustainable future in a world of change”

Tuesday, November 7, 2017 - 11:30am

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Seminar: Jan Genzer, North Carolina State University, Title “Preventing adhesion of marine organisms by engineering substrate topographies”

Tuesday, October 24, 2017 - 11:30am

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Graduate Seminar (G.R.A.S.S.) – Ryan Carpenter (Lee) and Yen Tran (Peyton/Klier)

Tuesday, October 17, 2017 - 11:30am

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Graduate Seminar (G.R.A.S.S.) – Yuxi Wang (Dimitrakopoulos) and Vishnu Raman (Forbes)

Tuesday, October 3, 2017 - 11:30am

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2nd Alumni Lecture: Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo, Princeton University, “What governs polymorphic accessibility?”

Friday, September 22, 2017 - 1:00pm

163C Campus Center

1st Alumni Lecture: Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo, Princeton University, “Organic Solar Cells Provide Onboard Power to Make Smart Windows Smarter”

Thursday, September 21, 2017 - 11:30am

163C Campus Center

Seminar: April Kloxin, The University of Delaware, Title “Designing and utilizing responsive biomaterials to control cellular microenvironments in the study of tissue regeneration and disease”

Tuesday, September 12, 2017 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Abhaya Datye, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Title “Designing Catalysts for Meeting the DOE 150 °C Challenge for Exhaust Emissions”

Tuesday, September 5, 2017 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Kaoru Aou, Dow Chemical, “How Can We Innovate Like a Tech Startup in a Large Corporation - The Perspectives of a PSE Alum in Industrial Research”

Thursday, August 31, 2017 - 10:00am

N610 LSL

Graduate Student Seminar (G.R.A.S.S.)

Tuesday, May 9, 2017 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Eric I. Altman, Yale University, “Two Dimensional Tetrahedral Oxides: From Model Catalysts to Atomically Thin Membranes”

Tuesday, May 2, 2017 - 11:30am

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Seminar: Hicham Fenniri, Northeastern University “Engineering Biomedical Function in Supramolecular Nanomaterials”

Tuesday, April 25, 2017 - 11:30am

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Seminar: Manu Platt, Georgia Tech, "Quantitative Dissection of Proteolytic Networks Governing Tissue Remodeling in Health and Disease"

Thursday, April 20, 2017 - 10:00am

S330 LSL

Seminar: Jason Papin, Virgina, title: "Predicting biology with reconciled human and rat metabolic networks"

Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

ExxonMobil Lecture: Liang-Shih Fan, The Ohio State University, “Chemical Looping Gasification and Reforming – Materials, Reactors and Systems”

Tuesday, April 4, 2017 - 11:30am

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Seminar: April Kloxin, Delaware, “Designing and utilizing responsive biomaterials to control cellular microenvironments in the study of tissue regeneration and disease”"

Tuesday, March 28, 2017 - 11:30am

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Seminar: Mindy Keefe, Dow Coating Materials, Title: "TBD"

Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - 11:30am

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Alumni Lecture: Tony Mikos, Rice University, Title “Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering”

Friday, March 10, 2017 - 11:15am

163C Campus Center,

Alumni Lecture: Tony Mikos, Rice University, Title “Injectable Hydrogels for Growth Factor and Stem Cell Delivery in Tissue Engineering”

Thursday, March 9, 2017 - 11:30am

Amherst Room, 10th Floor, Campus Center

Seminar: Jörg Kärger, Title: “Monitoring adsorption, diffusion and reaction through the microscope: the novel options of microimaging” - moved from 12/6 to 12/15

Thursday, December 15, 2016 - 11:30am
University of Leipzig

LGRT 201

Seminar: Martin Yarmush, Title: "New Approaches to Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy"

Tuesday, November 29, 2016 - 11:30am
Harvard University/Mass General Hospital

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Graduate Seminar: (G.R.A.S.S.) – Ashish Kumar (Maroudas/Dimitrakopoulos) and Vivek Vattipalli (Fan)

Tuesday, November 8, 2016 - 11:30am

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Seminar: Lynn Walker, Title: “Processing and Engineering Fluid-Fluid Interfaces through Multicomponent Adsorption”

Tuesday, November 1, 2016 - 11:30am
Carnegie Mellon University “Processing and Engineering Fluid-Fluid Interfaces

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Seminar: Pete Trefonas, Title: TBA“Directed self assembly - Self assembling surface neutral layers via block copolymers; and bi-directional emissive nanoparticle displays”

Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - 11:30am
Dow Electronic Materials

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Graduate Seminar (G.R.A.S.S.) – Ashutosh Rathi (Ford) and Elizabeth Cummings (Roberts)

Tuesday, October 18, 2016 - 11:30am

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Graduate Seminar (G.R.A.S.S.) – Elizabeth Brooks (Peyton) and Raymond Gasper (Ramasubramaniam)

Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - 11:30am

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Seminar: Mark P. Styczynski, Title: “Using Synthetic Biology and Metabolic Engineering to Detect Nutritional Deficiencies in the Developing World”

Tuesday, September 27, 2016 - 11:30am
Georgia Tech

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Seminar: Mehmet Toner, Title: “Bioengineering & Clinical Applications of Circulating Tumor Cells”

Tuesday, September 20, 2016 - 11:30am
Harvard University/Mass General Hospital

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Seminar: Padma Rajagopalan, Title: “The Design of Biomaterials to Investigate Healthy and Impaired Liver Function”

Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - 11:15am
Virginia Tech

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Seminar: Sanjay Kumar, University of California, Berkeley, “Cells as smart materials: Dissecting and reverse-engineering mechaniobiological units”

Tuesday, April 26, 2016 - 11:30am

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Seminar: Hicham Fenniri, Northeastern, Title: "TBD"

Monday, April 25, 2016 - 11:30am

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Seminar: Manu Platt, Georgia Tech, Title: "TBD"

Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 11:30am
CBI Invited Speaker

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Seminar: Bahareh Behkam, Virginia Tech Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Sciences, "TBD"

Tuesday, April 5, 2016 - 11:30am

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ExxonMobil Lecture: Liang-Shih Fan, Ohio State, Title: "TBD"

Monday, April 4, 2016 - 11:30am

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ExxonMobil Lecture: Michael Tsapatsis, University of Minnesota, “2-dimensional zeolites for catalysis and separations”

Tuesday, March 8, 2016 - 11:30am

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CANCELLED: Martin L. Yarmush, "New Approaches to Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy"

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 11:30am
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

LGRT 201

Seminar: Tom McCarthy, Polymer Science, UMass Amherst

Tuesday, February 9, 2016 - 11:30am
“Do you know what PDMS is?”

LGRT 201

Seminar: Wei Fan, UMass Amherst

Tuesday, January 26, 2016 - 11:30am
"Development of Hierarchical Zeolite Catalysts for the Production of Renewable Chemicals"

LGRT 201

Darrell Irvine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Engineering immunity with hitchhiking therapeutics”

Tuesday, December 15, 2015 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Michael Strano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Manipulating mass and energy using carbon nanotechnology"

Tuesday, December 8, 2015 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Phillip B. Messersmith, University of California, Berkeley “Properties and Applications of Synthetic Polymers and Coatings Inspired by Mussels, Wine, Tea, and Chocolate”

Tuesday, December 1, 2015 - 4:00pm

Goessmann 64 (Auditorium)

Seminar: Lorna Gibson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Hierarchical structure and mechanics of plants”

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

CANCELLED: Mehmet Toner, Harvard University/MGH “Bioengineering & Clinical Applications of Circulating Tumor Cells”

Tuesday, November 3, 2015 - 11:30am
Will be rescheduled for September 20, 2016

n/a

GRASS: Lin Du (Maroudas Group) & Kris Kolewe (Schiffman Group)

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: CANCELLED!!! Pam Silver, Harvard University

Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - 11:30am

n/a

Seminar: Krishna Mahadevan, University of Toronto, “Model-based Strategies for Engineering Metabolism”

Tuesday, October 6, 2015 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Jodie Lutkenhaus, Texas A&M University, “It’s All About Water: Temperature Effects in Polyelectrolyte Complexes and Multilayers”

Tuesday, September 29, 2015 - 11:30am

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Alumni Lecture: Juan de Pablo, University of Chicago, "Directed Self-Assembly of Block Polymers; From Academic Curiosity, to Production of Next-Generation Nanocircuits"

Friday, September 25, 2015 - 3:00pm

Campus Center 163C, Reception to follow on the 10th floor

Alumni Lecture: Juan de Pablo, University of Chicago, "Nanoparticles in liquid crystals, and liquid crystals in nanoparticles"

Thursday, September 24, 2015 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

GRASS: Jin Chen (Henson Group) & Lauren Jansen (Peyton Group)

Tuesday, September 15, 2015 - 11:30am

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Seminar: Cliff Brangwynne, Princeton University, "Measuring the Intracellular Dew Point: Phase Transitions in Cells"

Tuesday, September 8, 2015 - 11:30am

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Exxon-Mobil Lecture: Robert H. Davis, University of Colorado - Boulder

Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 11:30am
"Selected Problems in Low-Reynolds- Number Fluid Mechanics"

LGRT 201

Alexender Katz, University of California, Berkeley

Tuesday, April 21, 2015 - 11:30am
“The Homogenization of Heterogeneous Catalysis: Reactivity of Single Sites on Surfaces That Have No Parallel in Solution”

LGRT 201

George Malliaras, Center of Microelectronics in Provence, France

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 2:30pm
Title: “Interfacing with the Brain using Organic Electronics”
Note special time and location

Room 331 of the Integrated Learning Center at 2:45pm. Refreshments at 2:30pm.

Cynthia H. Collins, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tuesday, April 7, 2015 - 11:30am
Title: TBD

LGRT 201

GRASS: Hong Je Cho (Wei Fan Group) and Shengkai Li (James Watkins Group)

Tuesday, March 31, 2015 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

GRASS: Nathan Birch (Jessica Schiffman Group) and Hongbo Shi (Scott Auerbach Group)

Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - 11:30am

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Seminar: Jeff Davis, Chemical Engineering, UMass Amherst

Tuesday, February 10, 2015 - 11:30am
“Self-sustained oscillations in blood flow through capillary networks”

LGRT 201

"Using Contact Line – Dependent Wetting"

Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - 11:30am
Thomas J. McCarthy, University of Massachusetts – Amherst – PSE Department

LGRT 201

GRASS: Gradute Student Talks

Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - 11:30am
Lauren Barney (Peyton Group) & Katrina Rieger (Schiffman Group)

LGRT 201

Seminar: Katharina Ribbeck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 11:30am
Title: “Bioinspired hydrogels: tuning selective transport and microbial interactions”
Katharina Ribbeck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

LGRT 201

Carbon Nanospace-Aided Molecular Engineering

Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - 11:30am
Katsumi Kaneko, Shinshu University

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Seminar: Jeffrey R. Errington, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Tuesday, November 4, 2014 - 11:30am
Title: "Using Molecular Simulation to Understand the Bulk and Interfacial Behavior of Ionic Liquids"
Jeffrey R. Errington, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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“Cell-Matrix Interactions in 3D microtissues: Multiscale mechanical models”

Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - 11:30am
Vivek Shenoy, University of Pennsylvania

LGRT 201

“Fundamental differences between traditional III-V compounds and Nitride Semiconductors: The formation and role of extended defects”

Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - 11:30am
Theodore Moustakas, Boston University

LGRT 201

"Understanding and Manipulating the Foreign Body Reaction to Synthetic Hydrogels: Implications in Tissue Engineering"

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - 11:30am
Stephanie J. Bryant, University of Colorado

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Alumni Lecture - “Body Building: Designer Gels to Promote Tissue Regeneration”

Friday, September 26, 2014 - 3:00pm
Reception to follow (4:00) in Campus Center 1009 (Amherst Room)
Kristi Anseth

Campus Center 163C

Electrical & Computer Engineering hosts Seminar presented by Outstanding Alumni Award Recipient

Friday, September 26, 2014 - 8:00am
"Academia/Entrepreneurship -Two Sides of the Same Coin?"
Vishal Misra - '96 MS, '00 PhD ECE

M5 - Marcus Hall, Room 5

Alumni Lecture - "Goodbye Flat Biology?"

Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 11:30am
Kristi Anseth

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GRASS: Graduate Student Talks

Tuesday, September 16, 2014 - 11:30am
M. Navaid Khan (Monson Group) & Raghuram Thyagarajan (Ford/Maroudas Group)

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