Buddy Ratner, UW professor of bioengineering and chemical engineering and the Michael L. & Myrna Darland Endowed Chair in Technology Commercialization, has been selected as a 2015 Langmuir Lecturer.
Langmuir Lecturers are selected by representatives from the ACS Colloid and Surface Chemistry Division and representatives from the journal Langmuir. Each Langmuir Lecturer will deliver a plenary lecture in a special session of the Colloid and Surface Chemistry Division program at the 2015 ACS Fall National Meeting in Boston, Mass. Lecturers also receive a $3,000 honorarium, a plaque, free registration and travel reimbursement. Lecturers are expected to submit a lecture manuscript for publication in Langmuir.