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5:30pm</title></head><body>
<div><font color="#0000FF">This public lecture is being held on
Thursday at Sidney Pacific Graduate Residence at 70 Pacific Street in
Cambridge. Postdocs are welcome to attend!</font></div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Using Nature's Tools to Design Novel
Hybrid Nanostructured Materials<br>
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Angela M. Belcher<br>
<br>
John Chipman Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
and<br>
BioEngineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
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Date and Time: October 30, 5:30pm<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Venue: Sidney-Pacific Multipurpose
Room</blockquote>
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Webpage: http://s-p.mit.edu/cosi<br>
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Biography:<br>
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Angela Belcher is a materials chemist with expertise in the fields
of<br>
biomaterials, biomolecular materials, organic-inorganic interfaces
and<br>
solid state chemistry. She received her B.S. in Creative Studies
with an<br>
emphasis in biochemistry and molecular biology from The University
of<br>
California Santa Barbara. She continued her education at UCSB and
earned a<br>
Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry (1997) from The University of California
Santa<br>
Barbara under the direction of Professors Galen Stucky and Daniel<br>
Morse. Following a year of postdoctoral research in electrical
engineering<br>
at UCSB with Professor Evelyn Hu, Belcher joined the faculty at
The<br>
University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Chemistry and<br>
Biochemistry in 1999. Belcher joined the faculty at MIT as the
John<br>
Chipman Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and
Biological<br>
Engineering. Belcher's interest focuses at interfaces, which includes
the<br>
interfaces of scientific disciplines as well as the interfaces of<br>
materials. In her group at MIT, they are using Nature as a guide to
make<br>
novel electronic and magnetic materials and to pattern materials on
nano<br>
length scales.<br>
<br>
Some of Dr. Belcher's recent awards include 2003 Top 10 Innovators
Under 40<br>
(Fortune Magazine), 2002 World Technology Award (Materials), 2002
Popular<br>
Science Brilliant 10, 2001 Packard Fellow, 2001 Alfred P. Sloan
Research<br>
Fellow, 2000 Presidential Early Career Award for Science and
Engineering<br>
(PECASE), 2000 Beckman Young Investigator Award, 1999 DuPont Young<br>
Investigator Award, 1999 Army Research Office Young Investigators
Award.<br>
She currently heads the $50 million Institute for Collaborative<br>
Biotechnologies (ICB) partnership among MIT, the University of
California</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>at Santa Barbara (UCSB) and the
California Institute of Technology.<br>
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