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SUMMARY:Chemical Engineering Programs Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Please join faculty and graduate admissions staff at a webinar discussing the Chemical Engineering departmental program offerings and experiential learning opportunities in the Graduate School of Engineering.
URL:https://che.northeastern.edu/event/chemical-engineering-programs-webinar/
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SUMMARY:ChE Seminar Series: Detection\, Prediction\, and Visualization of Monolayer Phase Separation on Metallic Nanoparticles
DESCRIPTION:ChE Seminar Series Presents: \nDr. David L. Green \nMaterials Science\, Chemical Engineering\, and Mechanical Engineering Departments \nUniversity of Virginia \nAbstract: The goal is to gain fundamental insights into the factors that dictate the synthesis of monolayer-protected nanoparticles and translate them into rational design strategies for novel functional soft materials. He is interested in monolayer self-assembly\, polymer grafting\, and nanoparticle dispersion. He studies how to exert control over the interface of nanoparticles\, which dictates their degree of compatibility with and assembly in soft materials\, provides reactive sites for attachment of molecules\, such as drug payloads\, and tunes detectable properties\, such as the surface plasmon to a wavelength of interest. David Green is particularly interested in the development of nanoparticles coated with monolayers from mixtures of organic molecules that may also self-assemble into advantageous patterns. As pattern formation in self-assembled monolayers is inextricably linked to their intermolecular interactions\, a key research challenge is the integration of experimental and theoretical techniques to enable de novo design of patterned nanoparticles. \nBio: David Green is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia. He and his team collaborate with chemists\, physicists\, pharmacists\, and oncologists to develop design principles for monolayer-protected nanoparticles.
URL:https://che.northeastern.edu/event/che-seminar-series-detection-prediction-and-visualization-of-monolayer-phase-separation-on-metallic-nanoparticles/
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SUMMARY:ChE Seminar Series: Designing Optically Active Semiconductor Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications
DESCRIPTION:ChE Seminar Series Presents: \nDr. Allison Dennis \nAssistant Professor\, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering \nBoston University \nAbstract: \nAlthough the unique optoelectronic properties of semiconductor nanoparticle quantum dots (QDs) enable a variety of commercial products including display technology\, solid state lighting\, and photovoltaics\, different design criteria need to be considered to use these nanoparticles in biomedical devices. Here\, I will discuss how we tailor the composition and optical properties of QDs for a variety of biosensing and bioimaging applications. For example\, I’ll describe how we use bright red and green emitting QDs in a rapid\, instrument-free assay to detect small molecules such as antibiotics in complex water samples and use near infrared and shortwave infrared emitters to improve the clarity and resolution of in vivo imaging in mice. Finally\, I’ll describe how biodegradable and biocompatible plasmonic semiconductor nanoparticles could be used to overcome barriers to clinical translation for photoaccoustic imaging and photothermal therapy applications. Notably\, the efforts to remove heavy metals from the nanoparticles compositions also reduces the environmental impact of QDs developed for energy applications. By carefully considering material properties and engineering design choices\, we develop semiconductor nanoparticles for a wide variety of applications. \nBio: \nAllison Dennis is an assistant professor in Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at Boston University. After graduating with a B.S. in Bioengineering and B.A. in German from Rice University\, Prof. Dennis pursued nanobiotechnology research with Prof. Achim Göpferich in the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Regensburg in Germany as a Fulbright Scholar. This research direction was continued during her Ph.D. work with Prof. Gang Bao at the Georgia Institute of Technology and post-doctoral research with Dr. Jennifer Hollingsworth at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies at Los Alamos National Laboratory. At Boston University\, the Dennis Lab engages the fundamental material properties of heterostructured semiconductor nanoparticles to optimize them for sensing\, imaging\, fundamental photophysical investigations\, and energy applications. The Dennis Lab appreciates past and current support from intramural and extramural sources including the NIH\, NSF\, and the BU Clinical and Translational Science Institute.
URL:https://che.northeastern.edu/event/che-seminar-series-designing-optically-active-semiconductor-nanoparticles-for-biomedical-applications/
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SUMMARY:Chemical Engineering Research Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Rebecca Willits on November 16th at 10:00am EST as she conducts a deep dive of her research. This event is open to all prospective students and applicants to the Chemical Engineering department.
URL:https://che.northeastern.edu/event/chemical-engineering-research-webinar/
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SUMMARY:ChE Seminar Series: Game-Inspired Approaches to Engineering Education Across the Curriculum
DESCRIPTION:ChE Seminar Series Presents: \nDr. Daniel Burkey \nAssociate Dean of Undergraduate Education and Diversity\, Professor-in-Residence in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\, and a University Teaching Fellow at University of Connecticut \nAbstract: \nGame-based educational techniques can be an interesting and novel approach to active learning in engineering courses. Because games often exist within their own rule sets\, they can allow students to explore scenarios and make choices that they wouldn’t otherwise make because they are appropriate within the context and the rules of the game. In this talk\, we discuss two different projects involving game-based learning. In the first\, we explore multiple game-based approaches to teaching engineering ethics to freshmen engineering students in a multidisciplinary setting. At the beginning of the semester\, students are given a baseline survey to quantify the sophistication of their ethical reasoning. Over the course of the semester\, different game-based interventions are given to the students\, and the survey instrument again is used to determine any changes in their ethical reasoning. The game-based interventions by their nature allow students to explore ethical reasoning in the context of behavioral ethics. In the second project\, we discuss the development and use of a digital video game to teach process safety to senior chemical engineering students. Our research team developed a survey instrument to gauge the sophistication of student thinking about process safety. Students completing the survey instrument and then completing similar scenarios in the game show statistically significant differences in the types of responses they make\, indicating that different reasoning modes may be activated by the game due to its more authentic and realistic portrayal of the material. \nBio: \nDaniel D. Burkey is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education and Diversity\, Professor-in-Residence in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\, and a University Teaching Fellow at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Burkey holds his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University in Bethlehem\, PA\, and his M.S.C.E.P. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to UConn\, he held positions at Northeastern University and at GVD Corporation in Cambridge\, MA. Since joining UConn in 2010\, Dr. Burkey’s area of research has focused broadly on engineering education\, and specifically on moral and ethical development of engineering students\, process safety education\, and game-inspired educational techniques. Dr. Burkey currently serves as a Director of the Education Division of AIChE\, where he runs the Future Faculty Mentoring Program. He is a past program chair of the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division and serves on the publications board of Chemical Engineering Education. In 2020\, he was inducted into the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) for his contributions to engineering education in the state. In addition to his many teaching awards\, Dr. Burkey is also the recipient of the 2020 AICHE Education Division Innovation Award for his contributions to new pedagogies in chemical engineering education\, as was recently awarded the 2021 ASEE Corcoran Award for the best paper in Chemical Engineering Education in the previous year.
URL:https://che.northeastern.edu/event/che-seminar-series-game-inspired-approaches-to-engineering-education-across-the-curriculum/
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SUMMARY:ChE Seminar Series: Unwinding Anxiety: An App Based Mindfulness Program
DESCRIPTION:ChE Seminar Series Presents: \nDr. Nancy Lasson\, DO\, FACP\, DipACLM \nPrimary care provider and medical director of the primary care group at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative of LifeSpan Physician Group in Providence\, Rhode Island \nAbstract:  \nAnxiety can be managed by understanding reward-based learning and using mindfulness to interrupt unwanted behavior. Habits form to promote survival. The underlying mechanism is based on reward-based learning. There are areas of the brain where habits run on autopilot. The neo-cortex\, or new brain\, is where mindfulness can help break the cycle of unwanted habits of anxiety. Anxiety as an emotion has associated behaviors\, including worry\, rumination\, stress eating\, and smoking. The goal of unwinding anxiety is to offer an alternative to autopilot habits by employing mindfulness techniques. Multiple studies have demonstrated significant efficacy in this tool. Mindfulness is the awareness that occurs when paying attention in the present moment intentionally\, without judgment. The felt experience of mindfulness replaces autopilot habits like worry and stress. \nBio: \nDr Nancy Lasson is a primary care provider and medical director of the primary care group at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative of LifeSpan Physician Group in Providence\, Rhode Island. She is also a clinical assistant professor of medicine\, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University. Dr. Lasson received her B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania in religious studies and cultural anthropology. She studied medicine at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She is board certified in both internal medicine and lifestyle medicine. She was a primary care physician in Limestone Medicine and Pediatrics of Christiana Care in Wilmington\, Delaware where she achieved a “Top Doctor in Delaware” award in internal medicine. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and Diplomat of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. Recently she became certified as a behavior change facilitator.  Dr. Lasson’s clinical interests include women’s medical issues and care; preventive medicine\, especially cholesterol management; coronary artery disease and cancer screening; end-of-life care for patients and their families; and mindfulness practices. She is passionate about struggles of the human soul.
URL:https://che.northeastern.edu/event/che-seminar-series-unwinding-anxiety-an-app-based-mindfulness-program/
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