HESBURGH LECTURE SERIES 2013 Program - Alumni Association ...
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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 />
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