09/26/2025
By Susan D'Amore

The University of Massachusetts Lowell will hold its 25th Sukant Tripathy Memorial Symposium on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025 to honor the memory of the late Professor Sukant Tripathy, renowned researcher and former Director of the Center for Advanced Materials, University Provost and Vice Chancellor.

Friday, Dec. 5, 2025
8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
University Crossing, Moloney Hall Suite 203
Cost: FREE

Registration is required.

If you or your group are interested in presenting a POSTER at the Symposium this year, please submit by email your:

Title
Author(s)
Brief Abstract

Please submit no later than Nov. 18, 2025 (to be in the program book) email to: Susan_Damore@uml.edu and be sure to register for the Symposium.

Symposium Speakers

  • Ammu Mathew, U.S. Army DEVCOM Soldier Center, Natick, Mass.
    Cephalopod-inspired adaptive photonic structures
  • Professor Alfred Crosby, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
    University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts
    Autonomously Moving Polymers for Advanced Robotics and Manufacturing
  • Professor Jeong OK Lim, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM), Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
    Design and Preclinical Evaluation of Clinically Favorable 3D Printed BMP-2 Conjugated Bone Substitute
  • Professor Suri Iyer, Chemistry Department, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts
    Pushing Diagnostic Sensitivity to the Femtogram Range: A Versatile Nanoparticle Platform for Point-of-Care Detection of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Dengue
  • Professor Gary Wnek, Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
    Property Improvements of Selected Polymers and Incompatible Blends Using Not-So-Common Processing Methods
  • Aneil Tripathy, Ceres, Research Affiliate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan Sustainability Initiative, MIT Sloan School of Management
    Lessons from my Father: Innovation, People, and Massachusetts' ClimateTech Future
  • Saswata Karmakar, Director of Chemistry, Sanofi mRNA Center for Excellence
    Discovery of Novel Ionizable Lipids for the Intramuscular Delivery of mRNA Vaccines

For more information, email Susan_Damore@uml.edu.