• PhD Defense – JoonKoo Kang

    NCRC, B10 ACR1

    Title: A Facile One-Pot Photo-Mediated Polymerization Based on Photoarylation of Thiophene Derivatives and Its Application for Transparent Electrode Chair: Jinsang Kim

  • Bioethics Lunch – Publishing & Peer-Review

    NCRC, B10 G065

    BIONIC and Dr. Barry Belmont invite you to join them for lunch and a discussion on the ethics of publishing in science and the peer-review system with special guest Dr. Nick Kotov. Peer-review is colloquially deemed to be sub-optimal, if not broken, but we continue to rely upon it for publishing our results. Furthermore, we […]

  • Bioethics Lunch – Neural Interfaces

    NCRC, B10 G065

    Join BIONIC, Dr. Barry Belmont and Dr. Parag Patil for a lunch discussion on medical therapies and technologies designed around interacting with, reading information from, and sending signals to the nervous system. Such topics could include implantable neuroprostheses that treat disease (e.g. deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease), brain-machine interfaces that blur the lines between […]

  • PhD Defense – Philip Vu

    Title: Restoring Fine Motor Prosthetic Hand Control via Peripheral Neural Technology Chair: Cynthia Chestek

  • PhD Defense – James Antonaglia

    NCRC, B10 Research Auditorium

    Title: Mechanical Properties and Phase Transitions in Hard Polygons and the Origin of Colloidal Crystal Photonic Band Gaps Chair: Sharon Glotzer

  • Bioethics Lunch – Game of Thrones

    NCRC, B10 G065

    The Biointerfaces Interlaboratory Committees (BIONIC) and Dr. Barry Belmont invite you to join us for our April Bioethics lunch! Though Winter has officially departed, the final season of Game of Thrones is coming! If you're even tangentially aware of the premise of the series, you'll know that it's chock-full of 'ethically interesting' situations. Are you […]

  • PhD Defense – Yufei Wei

    NCRC, B10 ACR1

    Title: Investigating and Modeling the Rheology and Flow Instability of Thixotropic Yield Stress Fluids Chairs: Ronald Larson & Michael Solomon

  • PhD Defense – Yuchen Fan

    NCRC, B10 ACR2

    Title: Vaccine Lipid-Biopolymer Cross-Linked Nanoparticles Against Infectious Diseases and Cancer Chair: James Moon

  • PhD Defense – Soroush Moghadam

    GM Conference Room, Lurie Eng. Center

    Title: Multi-Scale Modeling and Simulation of Polymeric Liquids in Fast Extensional Flows Chair: Ronald Larson

  • Bioethics Lunch – Star Wars

    NCRC, B10 G065

    The Biointerfaces Interlaboratory Committees and Dr. Barry Belmont invite you to join us for our last Bioethics lunch of the semester! In celebration of both the end of another successful semester and Star Wars Day, our May ethics lunch will be the second iteration of last year's highly popular "Ethics of Star Wars." Last year […]