The Joint Annual Retreat included program orientation for entering trainees and an overview of the two programs by Marc Porter, USTAR Professor, Departments of Chemistry; Chemical Engineering; Bioengineering and Pathology) and USTAR Professor Hamid Ghandehari, Departments of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry; and Bioengineering. A guest lecture, “The elephant in the Nano-room” was presented by David Grainger, Department of Pharmaceuticals and Pharmaceutical chemistry.
Members of the external advisory committee composed of Neal Armstrong, Committee Chair, Department of chemistry, University of Arizona; Ellen Fisher, Department of Chemistry (Chair), Colorado State University; and Mack Shelley, Departments of Statistics; and Political Science, Iowa State University, were present throughout the retreat. They reviewed second year student posters and discussed their research.