Kenyon - IITM Technical & Science Writing Workshop
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
(July 11 - 15, 2022)
Kenyon - IITM Technical & Science Writing Workshop
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
(July 11 - 15, 2022)
A collaborative endeavour between
Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, USA & IIT Madras, Chennai, India
Chris Gillen studies the molecular physiology of ion transport proteins in insect models systems including fruit flies and mosquitoes. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Gillen is director of Kenyon’s creative Science Writing program. He has co-directed and taught writing workshops including the Kenyon Review Young Science Writers and the Kenyon College – Indian Institute of Technology Madras Scientific Writing Workshop.
Astronomy and astrophysics are complementary approaches to understanding the night sky. Astronomers have worked for centuries observing the stars and planets, recording their motions, estimating their brightnesses and developing explanations for the cycles they follow.
Drew Kerkhoff joined Kenyon’s faculty in 2005 after earning a Ph.D. at the University of New Mexico and completing a postdoc at the University of Arizona. He is a quantitative ecologist whose research is motivated by two key environmental challenges: global change (including climate and land use) and biodiversity conservation. He leads the Kenyon Macroecology Lab, where students use computational and field-based approaches to analyze the distribution and evolution of plant biodiversity and the functional role of Earth’s vegetation in the global carbon cycle.
Yutan D. Y. L. Getzler has always liked working with his hands and taking things apart so he can put them back together. Since arriving at Kenyon in 2004, his scholarship has focused on sustainability in materials science. In collaboration with Kenyon undergraduates, he developed one of the first catalysts to make a new topology of poly(lactic acid), a biodegradable plastic derived from annually renewable feedstocks. Another project seeks to understand the design of bespoke degradable polymers for specialty applications. Recent work has built a theoretical framework for an ideal circular polymer economy. His work has been extramurally funded and publications at Kenyon include manuscripts in Macromolecules and Nature Reviews Materials.
