DeSimone Awarded Lemelson-MIT Prize: Joseph M. DeSimone, Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry, UNC-CH and William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, NCSU will receive the prestigious Lemelson-MIT award for 2008. ‘Dubbed the "Oscar for Inventors," the $500,000 prize is bestowed upon outstanding mid-career inventors’, who are also entrepreneurs and committed mentors. DeSimone’s award recognizes multiple breakthroughs, including a ‘green’ process for making Teflon® fluorocarbon polymers, a technology for a fully bioabsorbable, polymer-based coronary stent, and continuing development of PRINT® nanobiomaterials for the diagnosis and treatment of disease.

Michelle Buchanan (ORNL), IAM Distinguished Speaker Seminar: Grand Scientific Challenges in Energy: Wednesday, 2 April, 2:00 pm, Chapman 125. Dr. Buchanan is the Associate Laboratory Director for Physical Sciences at  Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is widely published in mass spectrometry and serves on multiple editorial and review boards. She will also be meeting with the UNC-CH faculty, administrators and students to learn about UNC-CH programs and facilities.

Wednesday, 2 April 2008
IAM Distinguished Speaker Seminar: Grand Scientific Challenges in Energy
Dr. Michelle Buchanan, ORNL
2:00 pm, 125 Chapman Hall

Robert Waymouth (Stanford) Seminar Organocatalysis for Controlled Polymerization, Monday, 17 March, 4:00 pm, 125 Chapman Hall

The UNC Chapter of the Materials Research Society and The Institute for Advanced Materials are hosting as a Distinguished Guest Lecturer Professor Robert Waymouth.  Dr Waymouth is the Robert Eckles Swain Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University, the winner of numerous awards and widely published in his research areas of catalysis, inorganic, organometallic, and polymer chemistry.

Monday, 3/17/08
Organocatalysis: Strategies for Controlled Polymerization Reactions
Prof. Robert Waymouth, Stanford University
4:00-5:00 pm, 125 Chapman Hall
A reception will preceed the talk at 3:15 pm