Current Events
2025
2025
Description: Preliminary exam workshop for second year graduate students and holiday cookie decorating.
Description: Social networking event for graduate students and post-docs to connect.
Description: Are you looking for advice on how to join a research group? Do you have questions about what polymer research is like? What about co-advisement, how does that work? To help answer these questions, the POLY PMSE group will be hosting a Q&A student panel focused on the polymer research groups. We will have panelists who are representatives from a wide variety of polymer groups who you can ask your questions to, with representation from both the Chemistry and CEMS departments.
Held in conjunction with Chemistry GSWC
Title of Presentation: Polymer Chain-End Chemistry: Unlocking Next-Generation Functional Materials
Event sponsor: PPG
Description: Industry speaker from Solventum talking about her career path followed by a happy hour at Stub and Herbs
Description: Held in collaboration with the MRSEC/Lando/CSP REU programs to allow summer undergraduate researchers as well as current graduate students to take a tour of local company and meet UMN alumni working at 3M.
Title of Presentation: "Chemical Vapor Deposition of Polymers for Functional Textiles"
Event sponsor: PPG
Speakers: Alison Block, Ali Sattari, Emily Ness, Mara Kuenen, and Junghyun Ahn
Event sponsor: PPG
Description: Social event for graduate students and post-docs to connect and relax while decorating cookies.
Description: Social networking event for graduate students and post-docs to connect.