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Peter Kilpatrick, Ph.D.<br />

Matthew H. McCloskey Dean, College of Engineering<br />

Biography<br />

Peter Kilpatrick received an B.A. degree in chemistry, summa cum laude, from Occidental<br />

College and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota. From 1983 to<br />

2007, he served on the faculty of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at<br />

North Carolina State University, and from 1999 to 2007, he served as professor and department<br />

chairman. The focus of his current research is interfacial and colloidal science, with particular<br />

emphasis on fluid microstructure and its role in biology, petroleum production, and consumer<br />

products. He has received a number of teaching and research awards, including the Alcoa<br />

Distinguished Research Achievement Award, the AT & T Excellence in Education Award from<br />

the ASEE, election to the Academy of Outstanding Teachers, and the Young Researcher Award<br />

of Sigma Xi. He has published over 100 papers, given more than 100 invited lectures nationally<br />

and internationally and currently holds 14 patents with 1 pending.<br />

In January 2008, he accepted the position of Matthew H. McCloskey Dean of Engineering and<br />

professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Since<br />

that time, the college has nearly tripled its annual research awards, doubled its annual research<br />

expenditures, and increased its enrollment by more than 30%.<br />

Lectures<br />

Categories<br />

Engineering, Spirituality<br />

Beauty: The Nature of Discovery in Science and Technology and the Role of the Beautiful in<br />

Our Ascendance to God<br />

Beauty and radiant form play a key role in enabling scientific researchers to discover new knowledge. This same quality of creation<br />

is what leads us to God, and what enables us to achieve the prayer and contemplation that will be our eternal destiny.<br />

The Hesburgh Lecture Series, <strong>2013</strong> <strong>Program</strong> 51

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