3:54 p.m., March 14, 2008--Michael S. Strano, a University of Delaware graduate and the Charles and Hilda Roddey Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver the Allan P. Colburn Memorial Lecture on “The Chemistry of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Applications to Biomolecule Detection, Nanotube Separation and Electronic Networks” at 10 a.m., Friday, April 11, in 102-103 Colburn Laboratory.

Strano received his bachelor of science degree from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, N.Y., and his doctorate from the University of Delaware, both in chemical engineering. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Rice University under the guidance of Nobel Laureate Richard E. Smalley, and was an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois before his tenure at MIT.

Strano's research focuses on biomolecule and nanoparticle interactions and the surface chemistry of low-dimensional systems, nano-electronics, nanoparticle separations and applications of vibrational spectroscopy to nanotechnology.

He is the recipient of several awards, including a 2005 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, a 2006 Beckman Young Investigator Award, the 2006 Coblentz Award for Molecular Spectroscopy, the Unilever Award from the American Chemical Society in 2007 for excellence in colloidal science and the 2008 Young Investigator Award from the Materials Research Society.

The lecture is sponsored by the Department of Chemical Engineering. Refreshments will be available at 9:45 a.m.

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