Welcome!
On behalf of the Department of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College
of Engineering, I wish to extend to you our sincerest welcome to the Annual Departmental
Research Day. This showcase provides our graduate students, undergraduates and
postdoctoral fellows with the opportunity to display and discuss their research over the last
year in an informal setting with fellow students and faculty. We are proud of the work
performed by our students and postdoctoral researchers, and this event gives them the
opportunity to defend their research and inform the local community about their progress and
the advancements generated within the department. These kinds of exchanges are critical to
the education and maturation of our trainees (our greatest resource) but also educate the
faculty and local scientific community about the other resources and techniques available at
and under development in Chemical & Biomedical Engineering.
This year, we are proud to have a keynote address provided by Dr. David A. Tirrell, the Ross
McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the
California Institute of Technology as well as the director of the Beckman Institute. Dr. Tirrell’s
contributions to macromolecular chemistry have been recognized by his election to the
National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine,
and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been awarded the Arthur C. Cope
Scholar, Carl Marvel, Harrison Howe, S. C. Lind and Madison Marshall Awards of the American
Chemical Society, as well as the ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry. He holds the Chancellor’s
Medal of the University of Massachusetts, the G. N. Lewis Medal of the University of California
Berkeley, and the degree of Doctor honoris causa from the Technical University of Eindhoven.
We look forward to a fascinating discussion with Dr. Tirrell and fruitful day of conversations
and networking among students, fellows and faculty.
With Regards,
Samuel C. Grant, PhD
CBE Graduate Coordinator
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