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  • Dec
    2

    Supercharging Nature To Make Products: Towards a Global, Secure, and Equitable Bio-Based Economy

    Corporate Engagement - Industry Events

    11:00 AM

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    Are you interested in leveraging the power of biological systems to enable technological breakthroughs in medicine, materials, and chemicals? Join us for the webinar.

    Wednesday, December 2 | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. CST

    Join Northwestern University's Corporate Engagement team for a webinar on Synthetic Biology, led by Dr. Michael Jewett, PhD, the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Director of the Center for Synthetic Biology at Northwestern University.

    Registration is required to attend this free webinar. Upon registration, you will receive a link that is unique to your email address, so please do not share it. The webinar will be recorded and shared with all those who have registered.

    Speaker Bio:

    Michael Jewett is the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Director of the Center for Synthetic Biology at Northwestern University. Dr. Jewett received his PhD in 2005 at Stanford University, completed postdoctoral studies at the Center for Microbial Biotechnology in Denmark and the Harvard Medical School, and was a guest professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich).

    He is the recipient of the NIH Pathway to Independence Award in 2009, David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering in 2011, the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2011, Camille-Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award in 2015, the ACS Biochemical Technologies Division Young Investigator Award in 2017, and a Finalist for the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists, Life Sciences Category in 2019. Additionally, Jewett has co-founded 5 start-up companies (e.g., SwiftScale Biologics, Stemloop, Inc., Design Pharmaceuticals).

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    TIME Wednesday, December 2, 2020 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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    CONTACT Corporate Engagement    corporate@northwestern.edu EMAIL

    CALENDAR Corporate Engagement - Industry Events

  • Sep
    23

    Welcome & Luncheon for New Full-time Graduate Students

    McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

    11:00 AM Ryan Auditorium, Technological Institute

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    TIME Monday, September 23, 2024 at 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

    LOCATION Ryan Auditorium, Technological Institute    map it

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    CONTACT Andi Joppie    andi.joppie@northwestern.edu EMAIL

    CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

  • Sep
    24

    Fall 2024 Classes Begin (No Northwestern Monday in Fall)

    University Academic Calendar

    All Day

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    TIME Tuesday, September 24, 2024

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    CONTACT Office of the Registrar    nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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  • Sep
    30

    Last day to add a class or change a section for Fall (Last day for tuition adjustment related to enrollment changes (to or from full-time). No reductions are made to bills for dropped or swapped classes after this date)

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    TIME Monday, September 30, 2024

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    CONTACT Office of the Registrar    nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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  • Oct
    1

    MSE Colloquium - Dorn Lecturer Nancy Sottos

    Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MatSci)

    4:00 PM L211, Technological Institute

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    TIME Tuesday, October 1, 2024 at 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

    LOCATION L211, Technological Institute    map it

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    CONTACT Allison Macknick    allison.macknick@northwestern.edu EMAIL

    CALENDAR Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MatSci)

  • Dec
    7

    Fall classes end

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    TIME Saturday, December 7, 2024

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    CONTACT Office of the Registrar    nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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