ChE graduate students will have the opportunity to meet with Dr. Scott Fogler before he gives his seminar on Thursday, March 3. The meeting will be held in 101 Fenske Laboratory from 10:30 am to 11:15 am. Dr. Fogler’s seminar will follow from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm in 102 Chemistry Building. The meeting is an opportunity for graduate students to converse with Dr. Fogler about his research and experiences.
Information about Dr. Fogler can be found on his group’s website.
The ChE GSA will sponsor an IM Soccer team. There are men’s and women’s leagues, so the ChE GSA will sign up a team in both the men’s and women’s leagues if there is enough interest.
Please fill out this Google form by Monday, February 29 at 8 am if you are interested in playing. The season starts around March 28.
You can find more details about IM Soccer on the IM Sports website.
Update (1:40 PM, 2/17/16) – IM Standings as of 2/17 have been posted. You can find them here.
The ChE GSA IM co-rec volleyball team, Pinguinos Voladores, continued its winning ways Tuesday night, winning 3 – 0. Overall, Pinguinos has a game record of 11 – 1, putting them in position to make the playoffs. The team consisted of Brosi Bradley, Tyler Culp, Megan Farell, Jon Harcourt, Dan Marple, Michael Regula, and Julie Weitzman.
The last game of regular season is next Tuesday, February 23 at 8 pm in Gym 4 of the IM Building. The full schedule can be found on the IM website.
The ChE department announced a third faculty candidate seminar. Shengchang Tang, a graduate student at MIT, will present a seminar titled “Dynamics and Mechanics of Associating Polymer Networks.” The seminar will be held on Tuesday, February 23, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm in 102 Chemistry Building.
Please click here to see Shengchang Tang’s abstract and biography.
GPSA is a hosting a spring mixer at Cafe 210 7 pm – 9 pm on Wednesday, February 17. All graduate and professional students are invited. The GPSA will have free snacks.
Check out the Facebook event for more details.
The ChE GSA welcomes 33 prospective students to Penn State this weekend for graduate recruiting weekend. The open house schedule highlights the exceptional research being done by the ChE department’s faculty members and graduate students, the state-of-the-art facilities available for research, and the professional and social organizations (like the ChE GSA) available both in the ChE department and in State College.
The ChE department announced its second faculty candidate seminar of 2016. Nicholas Sandoval, a post-doc in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware, will present a seminar entitled “Expanding the Genone Engineering Toolkit: From Genes to Metagenomes.” The seminar will be held on February 18 in 102 Chemistry Building, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm.
Please click here to see Dr. Sandoval’s seminar abstract and biography.
The ChE GSA IM co-rec volleyball team, Pinguinos Voladores, won its third match Tuesday night 2 – 1 in the IM Building, winning the first two games, but falling in the third. Overall, the team had won 8 of its first 9 games. Tuesday night’s team consisted of Brosi Bradley, Dan Cetnar, Tyler Culp, Megan Farell, Dan Marple, Michael Regula, and Julie Weitzman.
The next game for the Pinguinos is Tuesday, February 16 at 8 pm, Gym 4, Court 3 against “Club Kickball”. The complete co-rec IM volleyball schedule can be found here.
Event: 1st Annual Chemical Engineering Department 5K Race
Date: Saturday, April 9
Time: Registration – 8:00 am – 9:30 am; Race Start – 10:00 am
Where: Medlar Field
The ChE department is participating in the April Fools 5K. The interdepartmental race will be a part of a larger 5K race. The ChE department will grant prizes both for overall team win as well as for team participation and individual awards. Faculty, graduate students, and undergrads all have their own teams that will compete for “overall team win”. Scoring will be “cross-country style“.
To register for the race:
1) Fill out this form and give it to Josh Litofsky (jhl182@psu.edu or 201 Fenske)
2) Register here.
Please contact Josh with any other questions.
The ChE GSA IM co-rec volleyball team, Pinguinos Voladores, won its second match Tuesday night 3 – 0 in the IM Building. The team consisted of Dan Cetnar, Tyler Culp, Megan Farell, Dan Marple, Michael Regula, and Julie Weitzman.
The next game for the Pinguinos is Tuesday, February 9 at 8 pm, Gym 4, Court 2. The complete co-rec IM volleyball schedule can be found here.