Faculty Luncheon Seminars are held monthly with interested faculty to facilitate cross-disciplinary research collaborations and to enable development of proposal ideas for upcoming funding opportunities.. All interested faculty are invited to attend.

The discussion topic for this luncheon will be "Polymer Sciences."

The faculty listed below will present a 10 minute (or less) overview of their research area and the fundamental research questions in the topical area that they believe could be addressed with other UND collaborations. This 40-minute session will be followed by discussion among all the presenters and attendees focused on (1) Cross disciplinary Basic Research Needs, (2) Potential avenues for external and internal collaborations, (3) Funding sources to target, and if everyone is agreeable, (4) 'Follow-up actions' that we can track.

The presentations for this meeting will feature talks by  Haifeng Gao, Ruilan Guo, Jennifer Schaefer, and William (Bill) Phillip.