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• May

  20

  John E. Hilliard Symposium: Materials Science & Engineering Department

  Department of Materials Science and Engineering

  All Day Chambers Hall

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  Please join the Department of Materials Science & Engineering for the John E. Hilliard Symposium on Wednesday, May 20th at Chambers Hall.

  This all-day event highlights the research of senior graduate students and those completing an Honors Senior Thesis.

  Location: Chambers Hall, 600 Foster St. Evanston, IL

  Keynote speaker
  Grace Wang
  Deputy Assistant Director for Engineering, National Science Foundation (NSF)
  
  Abstract
  From transistors to the internet, many breakthrough technologies and concepts in the past have changed the way we work, communicate, and live. While these advances frequently seem to have originated serendipitously, they result from brilliant connections across disciplinary, organizational, and industry-sector boundaries. With the global percentage of U.S. R&D investment continuously decreasing in the last decade, we are facing ever increasing global competition. At the same time, the projected population growth and the aging population in coming years drives the demand for food, water, energy, healthcare, education, and security. To address these problems in this funding climate, one might ask: (1) How to stimulate more innovative thinking to enable engineering solutions to help address these challenges; (2) How to prepare students for the future engineering jobs, some of which do not even exist yet? I discuss these challenges and describe how past successes to enable and capitalize breakthrough technologies and concepts may provide new answers.

  Biography Grace Wang was named Deputy Assistant Director for Engineering at the National Science Foundation in July 2014. Prior to that, Grace was the Division Director of the Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) at NSF since February of 2012. Grace joined NSF in June 2009 as a Program Director for the SBIR/STTR Program. She also served as the Cluster Leader for the Nanotechnology, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing (NM) Cluster in SBIR/STTR Program. Before joining NSF, Grace was a Senior Development Scientist at Hitachi, where she led a team to successfully develop and launch a few generations of products into the market. While in Hitachi, Grace also led task forces both in the US and overseas that identified and executed effective and viable solutions to major technical crises, and helped mitigate impact on revenue generation. Grace started her career as an Advisory Development Scientist at IBM. Grace is the recipient of many leadership and technical achievement awards. Grace holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University.

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  TIME Wednesday, May 20, 2015

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• Apr

  29

  MSE Resource Center Open Lab Sessions

  Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MatSci)

  10:00 AM 2036, Cook Hall

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  TIME Monday, April 29, 2024 at 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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  CONTACT Wade Tischhauser    wade@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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• May

  2

  MSE Resource Center Open Lab Sessions

  Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MatSci)

  10:00 AM 2036, Cook Hall

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  TIME Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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  CONTACT Wade Tischhauser    wade@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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• May

  6

  MSE Resource Center Open Lab Sessions

  Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MatSci)

  10:00 AM 2036, Cook Hall

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  TIME Monday, May 6, 2024 at 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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  CONTACT Wade Tischhauser    wade@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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• May

  8

  Extending Care: A Conversation about Conservation and Futurity

  Block Museum of Art

  6:00 PM Block Museum of Art, Mary and Leigh

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  The Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts is a collaboration between the Art Institute of Chicago and materials science-related departments at Northwestern University to pursue objects-based and objects-inspired scientific research. Materials research benefits ongoing work in conservation, archaeology, art history, and curatorial scholarship.

  Learn how the Center uses materials research to care for art objects in sustainable, innovative ways with Maria Kokkori, Senior Scientist in the Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts. She will be in conversation with Corey Byrnes, Northwestern Associate Professor of Chinese Culture and co-founder/co-director of the Environmental Humanities Workshop in Kaplan Humanities Center.

  This event is presented by the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science in conjunction with exhibition Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology.

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  TIME Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

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• May

  9

  MSE Resource Center Open Lab Sessions

  Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MatSci)

  10:00 AM 2036, Cook Hall

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  TIME Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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• May

  13

  MSE Resource Center Open Lab Sessions

  Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MatSci)

  10:00 AM 2036, Cook Hall

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  TIME Monday, May 13, 2024 at 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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  CONTACT Wade Tischhauser    wade@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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• May

  16

  MSE Resource Center Open Lab Sessions

  Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MatSci)

  10:00 AM 2036, Cook Hall

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  TIME Thursday, May 16, 2024 at 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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  CONTACT Wade Tischhauser    wade@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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• May

  20

  MSE Resource Center Open Lab Sessions

  Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MatSci)

  10:00 AM 2036, Cook Hall

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  Brought to you by the MSE Resource Center & MSE Finance Team

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  TIME Monday, May 20, 2024 at 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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  CONTACT Wade Tischhauser    wade@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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• May

  23

  MSE Resource Center Open Lab Sessions

  Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MatSci)

  10:00 AM 2036, Cook Hall

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  TIME Thursday, May 23, 2024 at 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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  CONTACT Wade Tischhauser    wade@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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• May

  27

  MSE Resource Center Open Lab Sessions

  Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MatSci)

  10:00 AM 2036, Cook Hall

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  TIME Monday, May 27, 2024 at 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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  CONTACT Wade Tischhauser    wade@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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• May

  30

  MSE Resource Center Open Lab Sessions

  Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MatSci)

  10:00 AM 2036, Cook Hall

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  TIME Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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  CONTACT Wade Tischhauser    wade@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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• Jun

  10

  Northwestern Engineering PhD Hooding and Master's Degree Recognition Ceremony

  McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

  9:00 AM Welsh-Ryan Arena

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  McCormick School of Engineering PhD Hooding and Master’s Degree Recognition Ceremony

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  TIME Monday, June 10, 2024 at 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

  LOCATION Welsh-Ryan Arena   

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  CONTACT Amy Pokrass    amy.pokrass@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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• Jun

  10

  Northwestern Engineering Undergraduate Convocation

  McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

  2:00 PM Welsh-Ryan Arena

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  McCormick School of Engineering Undergraduate Convocation

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  TIME Monday, June 10, 2024 at 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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  CONTACT Amy Pokrass    amy.pokrass@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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