The Department of Chemical Engineering has held the "Distinguished Young Scholars Summer Seminar Series" annually since 2011. Each year, a panel of ChemE grad students invites a distinguished group of postdoctoral researchers and graduate students selected from the large pool of national applicants to visit Seattle to present their research at the department's summer seminar. The top speaker chosen by the panel will also receive an iPad.
The winner of 2014 DYSS was Brent Nannenga.
The runner-up was Heather Mayes.
Congratulations to both!
| Date | Speaker and Lecture Title |
|---|---|
| July 7 |  Fuquan Tu
University of Pennsylvania Using stimuli-responsive Janus particles as dynamically tunable solid surfactants to study differences and similarities between Janus particles and amphiphilic molecules. |
| July 14 |  Simon Pang
University of Colorado-Boulder Rational design of heterogeneous catalysts for selective hydrogeneration of multifunctional molecules, aided by fundamental surface science investigations. |
| July 21 |  Julianne Holloway, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania Designing materials that mimic the native structure or biological signaling inherent in orthopedic tissues in order to improve treatment following injury. |
| July 28 |  Kevin Solomon, Ph.D.
University of California - Santa Barbara Developing sustainable biorefineries in traditional and non-model microbes through the use of systems and synthetic biology. |
| August 4 |  Albert Keung, Ph.D.
Boston University Synthetic approaches to control cell fate and function. |
| August 11 |  Brent Nannenga, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Overcoming barriers in structual biology through novel method development. |
| August 18 |  Amir Haji-Akbari, Ph.D.
Princeton University Computer-aided molecular engineering of crystallization in pursuit of more potent functional materials, cleaner sources of energy and better climate. |
| August 25 |  Heather Mayes
Northwestern University Harnessing computational chemistry to reveal reaction mechanisms that convert cellulose to renewable fuels and chemicals. |