Ruha Benjamin Viral Justice Book Talk and Fireside Chat with Dean Rodney Priestley

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Lecture #GradFUTURESForum2023 Careers & Professional Development Diversity & Inclusion Humanities Innovation/Entrepreneurship Leadership & Collaboration Research & Data Analysis Socially Engaged Research Teaching & Mentoring Thought Leadership

Fri, Mar 31, 2023

12 PM – 1:15 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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Frick Chemistry Laboratory - Taylor Auditorium

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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Ruha Benjamin, internationally recognized writer, speaker, professor of African American Studies and founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, will talk about her new book, "Viral Justice" and discuss with Graduate School dean Rodney D. Priestley the relationship between innovation and inequity and ways to prepare the next generation of Ph.D. s to be inclusive and socially responsible leaders.

Lunch will be served immediately after the talk and all in-person graduate student attendees will receive a complimentary copy of the book Viral Justice.
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Rodney Priestley

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Rodney Priestley is the dean of the graduate school at Princeton University and the Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering. He is a leading researcher in the area of complex materials and processing, and served as Princeton University's inaugural vice dean for innovation from 2020-22. The vice dean for innovation provides academic leadership for innovation and entrepreneurship activities across campus.



Priestley has published nearly 100 articles, edited a book, and is co-inventor on four patent-pending technologies in the area of drug-delivery and polymer colloids, substances that make up gels and emulsions. His research group is focused on understanding how materials that undergo changes in their properties and join together when confined in tiny spaces open new possibilities for a vast range of novel applications, including drug delivery, designer colloids and sustainable manufacturing. Priestley is engaged in three industry-university research collaborations in the areas of pharmaceuticals and cosmetics as well as polymer nanocomposite design, and is the co-founder of two companies that are working to translate University intellectual property into technologies or products.