Schedule

The 46th Annual ChEGSA Symposium will be held on September 19th-20th, 2024.

	April 2024
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
	1	2	3 Reps Meeting Reps Meeting Starts: 5:00 pm Ends: April 3, 2024 - 7:00 pm More details... •	4	5 ChEMSA Happy Hour ChEMSA Happy Hour Starts: 4:00 pm Ends: April 5, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Grad Lounge More details... Cereal Bowl Happy Hour Cereal Bowl Happy Hour Starts: 5:00 pm Ends: April 5, 2024 - 7:00 pm Location: Tung Au Lab, Porter Hall More details... • •	6
7	8 Dasia Aldarondo Defense Dasia Aldarondo Defense Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 8, 2024 - 12:00 pm Description: Defense Announcement for Dasia Aldarondo Dissertation Title: Shear Stress-Induced Phenotypic Alterations in Monocytes: Exploring Rheometer Shear, Milli-fluidic Modeling, and ACE2 Dysregulation Effects Date: Monday, April 8, 2024 Time: 10am - 12pm EST Location: DH 1102 Zoom Details: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/98040356893?pwd=NlBzTlNXR080UlJTVEpiZHhQdjd2Zz09 Committee Members: Elizabeth Wayne, PhD, Department of Bioengineering, UW Daphne Chan, PhD, Chemical Engineering CMU Kathryn Whitehead, PhD Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, CMU Siyang Zheng, PhD, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering, CMU More details... •	9 Seminar Seminar Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 9, 2024 - 12:30 pm More details... •	10	11	12 ChemE Alumni, Faculty & Student Mixer ChemE Alumni, Faculty & Student Mixer Starts: 3:00 pm Ends: April 12, 2024 - 5:00 pm Location: Rothfus Lab, Doherty Hall A100 More details... Happy hour Happy hour Starts: 5:00 pm Ends: April 12, 2024 - 6:30 pm More details... • •	13
14	15	16 Tom Krumpolc PhD Defense Tom Krumpolc PhD Defense Starts: 8:30 am Ends: April 16, 2024 - 10:30 am Description: Defense Announcement for Tom Krumpolc Dissertation Title: An Optimization Framework for Kinetic Model Building from Concentration and Spectroscopic Data Date: April 16th, 2024 Time: 8:30am-10:30am Location: DH 4201 Committee Members: Larry Biegler, Department of Chemical Engineering, CMU Carl Laird, Department of Chemical Engineering, CMU Andrew Gellman, Department of Chemical Engineering, CMU Hyung Kim, Department of Chemistry, CMU More details... Mariah Arral PhD Defense Mariah Arral PhD Defense Starts: 9:00 am Ends: April 16, 2024 - 11:00 am Description: Defense Announcement for Mariah Arral Dissertation Title: The Effect of Physiology and Chemistry on Lipid Nanoparticle mRNA Delivery Date: April 16, 2024 Time: 9:00am Location: DH 1102 Zoom Details: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/98468663346?pwd=Qndkb2ZFVnpzSnFRdGZCZ0hYSzhZQT09 Meeting ID: 984 6866 3346 Passcode: 718975 Committee Members: Kathryn Whitehead, Ph.D. (Advisor) Professor, Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering James Schneider, Ph.D. Professor, Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Anne Skaja Robinson, Ph.D. Trustee Professor of Chemical Engineering Stefanie Sydlik, Ph.D. (Outside, ChemE but at CMU) Associate Professor of Chemistry Drew Weissman, MD, PhD (Outside of ChemE and CMU) Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research at the University of Pennsylvania More details... • •	17	18	19 Cat relaxation fun Cat relaxation fun Starts: 3:30 pm Ends: April 19, 2024 - 5:30 pm Description: Dear students, . Please join us for a visit with our furry friends in the Grad Lounge DH A209 on Friday, April 19th from 3:30-5:30pm for cat cuddles with Frankie's Friends. Please note the usual Friday grad happy hour is in A100 from 4:30pm-6:30pm. . Also, if you have any clean towels or blankets for donation, please drop them off in advance to me/Heather Costello in DH 1101 or at the event in A209 (Grad Lounge). Hope to see you! . https://www.frankies-friends.org/Links to an external site. . We appreciate you! More details... Happy Hour Happy Hour Starts: 5:00 pm Ends: April 19, 2024 - 7:00 pm Location: DH A100 More details... • •	20
21	22	23	24	25 Alexandra Newby PhD Defense Alexandra Newby PhD Defense Starts: 10:00 am Ends: April 25, 2024 - 12:00 pm Description: Defense Announcement for Alexandra Newby Dissertation Title: Sugar Mama: Leveraging Human Milk for RNA and Protein Drug Delivery Date: April 25, 2024 Time: 10am – 12pm Location: DH 2101 Zoom Details: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/96887102928?pwd=ejU3QW9SWkxDR1RjNzNpd21UcE5HZz09 Meeting ID: 968 8710 2928 Passcode: cmu Committee Members: Kathryn Whitehead, Ph.D. Professor, Advisor, Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, CMU Robert Tilton, Ph.D. Professor, Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, CMU James Schneider, Ph.D. Professor, Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, CMU Phil Campbell, Ph.D. Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Engineering Research Accelerator, Biological Sciences, and Materials Science & Engineering, CMU More details... •	26 Happy Hour Happy Hour Starts: 4:30 pm Ends: April 26, 2024 - 6:30 pm Location: Grad Lounge More details... •	27
28	29 Hannah Yankello PhD Defense Hannah Yankello PhD Defense Starts: 11:00 am Ends: April 29, 2024 - 1:00 pm Description: Defense Announcement for Hannah Yankello Dissertation Title: Bi-directional Communication Between Monocytes and Trophoblasts: in vitro Modeling and Literature Synthesis Date: Monday, April 29th Time: 11:00 am to 1:00 pm Location: DH 1102 Zoom Details: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/98540545659?pwd=UEdzamFSWndYbFpvOWVRbStrZnVOUT09Meeting ID: 985 4054 5659 Passcode: 049796 Committee Members: Elizabeth Wayne, PhD, Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington Christina Megli, MD, PhD, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Anne Robinson, PhD, Department of Chemical Engineering, CMU Kathryn Whitehead, PhD, Department of Chemical Engineering, CMU Siyang Zheng, PhD, Department of Biomedical Engineering, CMU More details... •	30 Kyle Tynan PhD Defense Kyle Tynan PhD Defense Starts: 9:00 am Ends: April 30, 2024 - 11:00 am Location: Doherty Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA Description: Defense Announcement for Kyle Tynan Dissertation Title: Rapid quality analysis of mRNA Lipid nanoparticles using micelle formulations Date: Tuesday, April 30th Time: 9am - 11am EST Location: DH 2103 Zoom Details: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/98333913452?pwd=UkpENitWUkNpU0NJaU1GaS9IZ1pkZz09 Meeting ID: 983 3391 3452 Passcode: 039720 Committee Members: Jim Schneider, PhD, Chemical Engineering, CMU Anne Robinson, PhD, Chemical Engineering, CMU Kathryn Whitehead, PhD, Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, CMU Rebecca Taylor, PhD, Mechanical Engineering, CMU More details... •