Division News
2023 CCE Golf Tournament
The annual CCE Golf Tournament was held on November 3, 2023. CCE faculty, staff, graduate students and postdocs spent the day at the Arcadia Golf Club golf course for a 4-person scramble. Participants also received a commemorative CCE golf ball.
2023 CCE Holiday Party
On December 12, 2023, the Division gathered under the olive trees and festive string lights of Dabney Garden to celebrate our annual Holiday Party.
Named Lectures
Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
The Robert W. Vaughan Lecture was held on October 26, 2023. Elizabeth Nance, the Jagjeet and Janice Bindra Endowed Career Development Associate Professor & Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Chemical Engineering, of University of Washington presented her lecture titled "Engineering Therapeutics for the Pediatric Brain." The objective of the Vaughan Lectureship is to honor distinguished young scientists in any of the fields of Chemical Engineering, Chemical Physics or Applied Physics.
John D. Roberts Lecture
The John D. Roberts Lecture was held on November 29, 2023. Squire J. Booker, the Evan Pugh Professor of Chemistry and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of The Pennsylvania State University gave his talk titled "A Radical Solution for C(sp3)–C(sp3) Bond Formation during the Biosynthesis of Macrocyclic Membrane Lipids."
Peter B. Dervan Lecture
The Peter B. Dervan Lecture was held on December 13, 2023. David W.C. MacMillan, the the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry of Princeton University and one of the 2021 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry gave his lecture titled "The Development of Asymmetric Organocatalysis and Metallaphotoredox." The objective of the lectureship is to bring to campus distinguished scientists active at the interface of chemistry and biology.