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Molecular Podcasting with Darren LipomiAuthor: Darren Lipomi
This podcast lifts the veil on all topics related to STEM in academia: research, teaching, writing, speaking, and other professional topics. Darren Lipomi is a professor of nanoengineering, chemical engineering, and materials science at UC San Diego. He obtained his PhD in chemistry from Harvard in 2010 (w/ George Whitesides) and was a postdoc at Stanford in chemical engineering from '10-'12 (w/ Zhenan Bao). He is a recipient of the PECASE and became full professor in 2019. Thanks to NSF CBET-1929748 for support. Views don't necessarily reflect those of NSF or UCSD. Cover art bkg: Sam Root Language: en Genres: Science Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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#98 – How to get into grad school: Lessons from a dean, chair, & grad admissions director
Sunday, 19 April, 2026
In the last 10 years, I've posted many of my thoughts about getting into grad school. Here is the current state of my "wisdom," such as it is, now as department chair of chemical and sustainability engineering at the University of Rochester. Lessons learned from getting into Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, Berkeley, Scripps, and Columbia, and now having reviewed thousands of applications at large public and small private R1 institutions, and having had more than 20 undergraduate lab members get into "top-5" graduate programs.





