Thursday, 01 Dec 2011
Chemical and Biological Engineering Graduate Seminar Series
"Microfluidic Engineering of Cell Microenvironments" Shuichi Takayama, University of Michigan
Agronomy Seminar
Molly Jahn, University of Wisconsin.
Broadband is in Jeopardy! - Joseph Cassis
The U.S. is trailing behind other countries in broadband adoption and speed. It is crucial that broadband be considered a fundamental part of a community's infrastructure, says Joseph Cassis, deputy director of the Iowa Communications Network.
Self-assembling Polymers for Gene Delivery and Biomineralization
Surya K. Mallapragada is chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Stanley Chair in Interdisciplinary Engineering at Iowa. Her research on new polymeric materials for medical applications has implications from cancer therapy, to nerve regeneration, to single-dose vaccines. Sigma Xi Series and Women in STEM Series.
Policy Responses to the Great Recession: The Interaction of Leadership and Economic Ideas
As Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers from January 2009 until September 2010, Christina Romer was one of the four economics principals who met with President Obama daily to design and guide the Administration's response to the Great Recession. She is the class of 1957-Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Fall 2011 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics