Past Sotak Lecture Information

2024:

• Lawrence Latour, PhD ’94
  
  • Senior Scientist, NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke Acute Cerebrovascular Diagnostics Unit
  • Rapid MRI in the Study of Acute Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injury
    

2023:

• Derrick Dean, PhD
  • Professor and Director of Biomedical Engineering, Alabama State University
  • Fabrication and Cell Interactions of Bioactive Polymeric Scaffold

2022:

• Aaron Kyle, PhD
  • Senior Lecturer and Director, Hk Maker Lab, Columbia University
  • HK Maker Lab, Engendering Engineering Identity in Underrepresented Minority High School Students
  • Sotak Poster 2022

2021:

• Ronke Olabisi, PhD
  • Samueli Development Chair and Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine
  • Using Secrets of the Maya to Control Bone Formation
  • Sotak Poster 2021

2019:

• Gilda Barabino, PhD
  • Dean, Grove School of Engineering at City College of New York
  • Cell Biomechanics: Unlocking Determinants of Human Health and Disease
  • Sotak Poster 2019

2018:

• Curtis R. Carlson, PhD
  • Founder and CEO, Practice of Innovation
  • President and CEO, SRI International 1998-2014
  • The Convergence of Education and Innovation: How the Discipline of value creation can transform education, R&D, and commercialization
  • Sotak Poster 2018

2017:

• Michael B. Smith, PhD
  • Consultant/Imaging, Drug Discovery, Technology, and Design
  • Enhanced Drug Discovery through a Bioengineering Approach
  • Sotak Poster 2017