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Joseph Priestley Award Celebration Lecture: Giving New Life to Materials for Energy, the Environment and Medicine

September 27, 2018

MIT Professor Angela Belcher will address the possiblities Engineering Biology provides for working with and tailoring properties in devices for energy, environmental remediation, and cancer research.

This talk will address the possibilities Engineering Biology provides for working with a larger toolkit of materials to tailor properties in devices for energy, environmental remediation, and cancer diagnostics and treatment. The Joseph Priestley Award recipient is chosen by a different science department each year. The Department of Chemistry has selected this year’s recipient. The event is supported by the College’s Priestley Fund and is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by the departments of biology, chemistry, earth sciences, environmental studies, mathematics & computer science, psychology, and physics & astronomy and the Churchill Fund. It is part of the Clarke Forum’s Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty Series. For more information, please visit the website or call 717-245-1875.

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  • Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Calendar Icon
  • Cost: Free