The Women's Initiative Committee (WIC) is celebrating their 20th anniversary as a committee this year. To celebrate this important milestone, we are having a full day symposium to highlight the significant contributions of women to chemical engineering. The symposium is comprised of 20+ invited female speakers from diverse research backgrounds and affiliations.
The symposium will be followed by a special reception in the same room at 7:30pm.
Schedule
8:00 AM – 10:30 AM: WIC 20th Anniversary: Celebrating Women in Chemical Engineering I
Co-Chairs: Bihter Padak, University of South Carolina and LaShanda Korley, University of Delaware
| Talk | Speaker |
|---|---|
| "AIChE Women’s Initiative - Our Past, Our Future" | Caroline C. Reynolds, CR Solutions |
| "A Unique Chemical Engineering Career in the Energy Industry" | Cynthia Murphy-Ortega, Chevron |
| "From Supercritical Fluids to Ionic Liquids" | Joan F. Brennecke, University of Texas at Austin |
| "How to Grow Your Career While Balancing on One Foot" | Meagan Lewis, Honeywell UOP |
| "Stratification in Colloidal Films and Lessons from Soft Materials for Women in STEM" | Surita Bhatia, Stony Brook University |
| "Vapor Deposited Polymers: From Fundamentals to Commercialization" | Karen K. Gleason, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| "Assembly Engineering of Complex Colloidal Crystals" | Sharon C. Glotzer, University of Michigan |
12:30 PM – 3:00 PM: WIC 20th Anniversary: Celebrating Women in Chemical Engineering II
Co-Chairs: Ashlee Ford Versypt, Oklahoma State University and Megan Donaldson, The Dow Chemical Company
| Talk | Speaker |
|---|---|
| Symposium Introduction by WIC 20th Anniversary Symposium Chair | Julianne Holloway, Arizona State University |
| Welcome and Introductory Remarks by AIChE Executive Director | June Wispelwey, AIChE |
| "Some Historical Information and Statistics on Women in Chemical Engineering and in AIChE" | Maria K. Burka, National Science Foundation (retired) |
| "Modeling and Simulation of Complex Particle-Laden Flows" | Jennifer Sinclair Curtis, University of California, Davis |
| "Computational Design of Peptides to Detect Human Health Biomarkers" | Carol Hall, North Carolina State University |
| "Reflections from Four Decades of Collegiality, Collaboration and Competition in AIChE" | Alice P. Gast, Imperial College London |
| "Heterogeneous Catalyst Design at the Single Atom Limit for Efficient Chemicals Production" | Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, Tufts University |
| "Chemical Process Development – Even for Reaction Engineers, it Ain’t Just Kinetics" | Cheryl Teich, The Dow Chemical Company |
| "Potential of the Bioproducts and Biofuels Bioeconomy" | Kimberly L. Ogden, University of Arizona |
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Coffee and Refreshments Served
3:30 PM – 6:00 PM: WIC 20th Anniversary: Celebrating Women in Chemical Engineering III
Co-Chairs: Julianne Holloway, Arizona State University and Caryn Heldt, Michigan Technological University
| Talk | Speaker |
|---|---|
| "Celebrating Women in Chemical Engineering: Past and Present" | Rosemarie D. Wesson, The City College of New York |
| "Engineered Models of the Gut-Brain Axis" | Abigail Koppes, Northeastern University |
| "Designer Nanoplexes for Delivery to Targeted Tissues" | Paula T. Hammond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| "Biomedical Applications of Emulsion Templating" | Elizabeth M. Cosgriff-Hernandez, University of Texas at Austin |
| "AIChE’s First Female Member – An Unsung Trailblazer of Chemical Engineering" | Christine Seymour, Pfizer |
| "Silica Nanoparticles Act As Permeation Enhancers to Enable Oral Protein Delivery" | Kathryn A. Whitehead, Carnegie Mellon University |
| "The Role of Chemical Engineers in Pharmaceutical Development" | Sheena Reeves, Chemical Engineering, Prairie View A&M University |
AIChE® thanks the Founders’ Circle companies and individuals who have contributed for their early leadership and support of programming to foster inclusion in engineering.
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