Westwood Lectures to continue in February, March

Professor Chi Hwan Lee discusses his pioneering work in bioelectronics during the first event of the Westwood Lecture Series on Jan. 25. (Purdue University photo) Download image

As one of the actions to continue enhancing the intellectual vibrancy of the Purdue West Lafayette campus, President Mung Chiang has resumed the Westwood Lecture Series, an opportunity for Purdue faculty to interact with colleagues on scholarly work from a wide range of fields. The next lectures are scheduled for Feb. 23 and March 1, and registration will open for each lecture one week in advance.

The Westwood Lecture Series started in the past decade and is now resumed post-COVID-19. As before, each lecture will take place 4:30-5:30 p.m. at Westwood, the Purdue president’s residence. Space is limited to the first 75 faculty who register.

Chi Hwan Lee, the Leslie A. Geddes Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and by courtesy, Materials Engineering, and Speech Language and Hearing Sciences, launched the series with a Jan. 25 lecture on “Sticker-like Electronics for Wearable Healthcare.” Lee discussed his pioneering work in bioelectronics as reported in Nature and Science and deployed by his startups. 

February and March lectures will feature the following colleagues:

Feb. 23: Robert Stahelin, the Retter Professor of Pharmacy, on “Host Lipid-dependent Assembly and Budding of Emerging Viral Pathogens.”

March 1: Mara Faccio, the Tom and Patty Hefner Chair in Finance and Professor of Management, on “Politics and Finance: International Evidence.”

Additional lecturers for future months will be announced in March.