ACES: Association of Chemical Engineering Graduate Students

April 1, 2019

2017 Distinguished Young Scholars Seminar

The award for 2017 best DYSS seminar (as selected by our students) went to Ellen Wagner from the University of Texas at Austin.

Congratulations Ellen Wagner!


2017 Schedule of Speakers:

Date Speaker and Lecture Title
June 19 Marian Hettiaratchi Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
Bioinspired Drug Delivery Strategies for Treating Bone Fractures and Spinal Cord Injuries
June 26 Adam Printz, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University
Understanding and improving the mechanical stability of solution-processable semiconductors for flexible and stretchable electronics
July 10 Christopher Bahl, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Washington
De novo design of antivirulence therapeutics based on genetically encodable, hyper stable constrained peptides
July 17 Yekaterina Rokhlenko
Graduate Student, Yale University
Magnetic Field Alignment of Coil-Coiil Block Copolymers and Blends via Intrinsic Chain Anisotropy
July 24 Ellen Wagner
Graduate Student, University of Texas
Engineering and applying next-generation antibody and TCR therapeutics for infections diseases
July 31 Nav Nidhi Rajput, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Designing Optimal Electrolytes for Energy Storage Devices Using Coupled High Throughput Ab Initio Calculations and Molecular Dynamics Simulation
August 7 Yuexiao Shen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate, Pennsylvania State University
Energy efficient water purification – from biological channels to bioinspired artificial channels
August 14 Alex Rettie
Postdoctoral Appointee, Argonne National Laboratory
Towards Solar Fuels: Unravelling Charge Transport in Metal Oxide Photoelectrodes