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Welcome to the William B. Russel CBE GSS 2024!
This year's annual Graduate Student Symposium will be held on Friday, October 4th, 2024. Please register for the event and return to this website for updates about keynote speakers, scheduling, and location.
The annual Graduate Student Symposium (GSS) is organized by the graduate students in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University. GSS showcases current graduate student research in the department, ranging from mathematical modeling and simulations to materials science, bioengineering, and beyond. Fourth year graduate students will give oral presentations of their research and third year students will present posters.
GSS is a proud department tradition! We believe that creating a space for student presentations brings specialists from different fields together. Moreover, this event fosters an avenue for discussion between current Princeton students and faculty, and cultivates relationships within academia and industry. Ultimately, the environment created annually by GSS provides an excellent opportunity for collaboration and networking.
This year, we are happy to invite industry representatives to attend our exciting research presentations and poster session. We hope this will lead to fruitful discussion and relationships between our students and industries!
Join us in welcoming Dr. Elizabeth Zeitler, Associate Director of the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, and Dr. Rigoberto Hernandez, Gompf Family Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University, to campus as our two keynote speakers for GSS 2024!
GSS 2024 Keynote Speakers
Dr. Elizabeth Zeitler
Beth is Associate Director of the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Across the Academies, she leads consensus studies to inform government, private, and public sector decisionmakers on key areas of domestic and global energy policy, such as carbon utilization markets, infrastructure and RD&D; technologies for vehicle energy efficiency; the future of the electric system; and technical and policy needs for deep decarbonization. She has previously led and supported projects in the future of electrochemistry, data, modeling and simulation for urban sustainability, electric vehicle deployment and energy resource potential on DOE lands. Beth received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Princeton in 2014, and has previously served as a Christine Mirzayan Fellow at the Academies and as an AAAS STPF Fellow at the U.S. foreign assistance agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation.
Dr. Rigoberto Hernandez
Dr. Rigoberto Hernandez is the Gompf Family Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University since 2016, and the Director of the Open Chemistry Collaborative in Diversity Equity (OXIDE). He is also a Professor in the Departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He was born in Havana, Cuba and is a U.S. Citizen by birthright. He holds a B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering and Mathematics from Princeton University (1989), and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley (1993). He has published over 180 articles in theoretical and computational chemistry and discipline-based diversity research in chemistry.
Dr. Hernandez is the recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award (1997), Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar Award (1999), the Alfred P. Sloan Fellow Award (2000), a Humboldt Research Fellowship (2006-07), the ACS Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into Careers in the Chemical Sciences (2014), the CCR Diversity Award (2015), the RCSA Transformative Research and Exceptional Education (TREE) Award (2016), the Herty Medal (2017), the Stanley C. Israel Regional Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences (2018), and the RCSA IMPACT Award (2020). He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, 2004), the American Chemical Society (ACS, 2010), the American Physical Society (APS, 2011), and the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, 2020). He was a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar in 2015-2016. He previously served as the District IV Director on the ACS Board of Directors (2014-2019).
Contact Information:
If you have questions about GSS 2024, please feel free to reach out to this year's organizers:
Hailey Tanner ([email protected])
Louis Hoffenberg ([email protected])