Spring 2024 - Seminar List
Department Seminars are held Tuesday or Thursday at 11:30 in LGRT 201 (unless otherwise noted). Refreshments are available ~11:15 in LGRT 201. The public is cordially invited to attend.
Department Links: Linktree, Quicklinks Page, Google Calendar Page and Google Sites Calendar Page. There is also the COE Events page.
January 2024
Tuesday, January 9 G.R.A.S.S. - Biprodev Sarker (L. Andrews Group) and
Arvind Sathyavageeswaran (Perry Group)
Tuesday, January 16 G.R.A.S.S. - Paige Liu (Beltramo Group) and Jiacheng Wang (Bai/Wu Group)
Tuesday, January 23 G.R.A.S.S. - Dipti Bhave (Jentoft Group) and Yingjie Hang (Wu Group)
Spring 2024
Tuesday, February 6 DEI Forum (moved from 1/30) "Cultural Diversity in the ChE Department "
Tuesday, March 26 Yushan Yan, University of Delaware, "Electrochemical Engineering for Energy Transition:
Green Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and Carbon Capture”"
Host: Zhu Chen
Tuesday, April 2 Bill Schneider, University of Notre Dame, "The Catalytic Science of Making Up
and Breaking Up Dinitrogen"
Host: Peng Bai
Tuesday, April 9 Exxon Mobil Lecture
Rodney D. Priestley, Princeton University, "Hydrogels for Solar-Driven Water Purification"
Host: Peter Beltramo
Tuesday, April 16 UMass-3M Diversity in STEM
Katrina Knauer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, "“Addressing the plastic waste crisis today
while engineering intrinsically recyclable materials for tomorrow"
Hosts: Sarah Perry and Bryan Coughlin (PSE)
Tuesday, April 23 G.R.A.S.S. – Isaac Andre Ramirez (Perry Group) and Yachan Liu (Bai/Fan Group)
Tuesday, April 30 Tagbo Herman Niepa, Carnegie Mellon, "Designing a high-throughput platform for assessing
microbial dynamics in defined microenvironments"
Host: Jessica Schiffman
Tuesday, May 7 DEI Forum
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Updated: March 13, 2024
Maria Wallace (wallace@ecs.umass.edu) manages the schedule, Amity Lee (lee@umass.edu) updates this web page.