Fall 2026 Seminar Schedule
August
- 8/18 (Professional Development Seminar): How We Learned Most of What We Know
- Rich Felder, NC State
- 8/21 (CBE Seminar): CBE Townhall
- CBE Department Head Sindee Simon
- 8/25 (Professional Development Seminar): Mentoring & Supervising in the Lab – Core Skills for PhD Students
- Rebecca Dunning, NC State
- 8/28 (CBE Ollis Lecture): Synthetic biology for people and planet health
- Michael Jewett, Stanford University
September
- 9/3 (CBE Gubbins Lecture 1): Statistical Teleodynamics: A novel theory of emergent phenomena
- Venkat Venkatasubramanian, Columbia University
- 9/4 (CBE Gubbins Lecture 2): AI for Science and the Science of AI
- Venkat Venkatasubramanian, Columbia University
- 9/11 (CBE Seminar): Tailoring Solid-Liquid Interfaces: Fundamentals & Applications
- Arun Kota, NC State
- 9/15 (CBE Grad Student Research Presentations)
- Arianna Minzoni (PI-Stefano Menegatti)
- John Cheadle (PI-Nathan Crook)
- 9/18 (CBE Seminar): Designing Materials and Systems with Neuromorphic Behaviors
- Brett Helms, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
- 9/22 (Professional Development Seminar): Three Minute Thesis Workshop
- Malaka Friedman, NC State
- 9/25 (CBE Seminar): Liquid Metal-Enabled Soft Electronics and Thermal Management: From Materials to Interfaces
- Sungjune Park, Sungkyunkwan University
October
- 10/2 (CBE Seminar): Title TBA
- Aaron Frye, NC State
- 10/6 (Professional Development Seminar): Poster Branding Workshop
- Lauren Marlier, NC State
- 10/9 (CBE Seminar): Harnessing Proteins for Sustainable Composites and Responsive Materials
- Daphne WY Chan, Carnegie Mellon University
- 10/13 (CBE Grad Student Research Presentations)
- Crystal Ndamira (PI-Harvinder Gill)
- Casey Killmer (PI-Fanxing Li)
- 10/27 (CBE Grad Student Research Presentations)
- Jeremy Thelven (PI-Greg Parsons)
- Wenwen Chen (PI-Harvinder Gill)
November
- 11/3 (CBE Grad Student Research Presentations)
- Negin Orouji (PI-Milad Abolhasani)
- Sahimy Ayus (PI-Harvinder Gill)
- 11/6 (CBE Seminar): Title TBA
- Alexander Mitsos, RWTH Aachen University
- 11/13 (CBE Seminar): Title TBA
- Speaker TBA
- 11/17 (CBE Grad Student Research Presentations)
- Hector Apodaca (PI-Jason Haugh)
- Selen Dalgan (PI-Qingshan Wei)
- 11/20 (CBE Seminar): Title TBA
- Christopher Ober, Cornell University
- 11/24 (CBE Grad Student Research Presentations)
- Christopher Obi (PI-Fanxing Li)
- Daniel Addington (PI-Milad Abolhasani)
December
- 12/1 (CBE Grad Student Research Presentations)
- Kaleb Decker (PI-Adriana San Miguel)
- Sarvesh Nadkarni (PI-Saad Khan)