Rodolfo J. Romañach, from the Department of Chemistry-UPRM will be offering a lecture titled “Clear Thinking Becomes Clear Writing” Date: April 24, 2014 Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Place: INQU 004 – Amphitheater Abstract: “Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can’t exist without the other. It’s impossible for a muddy thinker to write good English.”1 These…
Congratulations to Prof. Ubaldo M Córdova-Figueroa and his colleagues from Pennsylvania State University and the Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics in Russia for their contributions in the area of self-powered micropumps in the prestigious Nature Chemistry. Samudra Sengupta, Debabrata Patra, Isamar Ortiz-Rivera, Arjun Agrawal, Sergey Shklyaev, Krishna K. Dey, Ubaldo Córdova-Figueroa, Thomas E. Mallouk & Ayusman…
Dr. Oscar Perales, from the Department of Engineering Science & Materials-UPRM will be offering a lecture titled “Nanomaterials Processing: Taking Advantage of the Improved Quality of the Building Blocks for Novel Nanotechnologies” Date: March 27, 2014 Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Place: INQU 004 – Amphitheater Abstract: Two issues of great importance for future nanotechnologies will be…
Dr. Tiffany D. Rau, technical/scientific lead for fermentation and isolation for Research and Development and Manufacturing activities at Eli Lilly in Puerto Rico will be offering a lecture titled “Fermentation: From Discovery to Commercialization” Date: March 20, 2014 Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Place: Department of Physics – Eugene Francis Room Abstract: The path from discovery to…
Dr. Douglas B. Weibel, from the Departments of Biochemistry, Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering of the University of Wisconsin -Madison will be offering a lecture titled “Mechanical Genomics: Genome-Wide Identification of Bacterial Cell Wall Stiffness”. Date: March 6, 2014 Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Place: Abbott Room Chemistry Building Abstract: The peptidoglycan (PG) consists of a single, cross-linked layer of…
Dr. Jon McCarthy, from the College of Engineering of the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be offering a lecture titled “Shared Instrument Facilities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison”. Date: February 27, 2014 Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Place: Department of Nursing – Amphitheater Abstract: The College of Engineering at UW-Madison currently supports three major shared instrument facilities: the Materials Science…
Dr. Jorge Almodóvar, from the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Puerto Rico- Mayagüez will be offering a lecture titled “Engineering of Biopolymeric Nano Materials: from Fundamental Studies to Healthcare Applications”. Date: February 20, 2014 Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Place: INQU 004 – Amphitheater Abstract: The field of biomaterials emerged from the need of physicians for…