Saville Lectures

In memory of our colleague, Princeton University’s Department of Chemical Engineering has established the Dudley A. Saville Lectureship for exceptional early-career chemical engineers and scientists. Inspired by his family and colleagues, this series reflects Dudley Saville’s longtime association with Princeton, his uncompromising pursuit of excellence, and his commitment to helping young people begin their academic careers. In his nearly 40 years at Princeton University, he pioneered new directions in fluid mechanics, especially electrohydrodynamics. Although Dudley’s emphasis was always on fundamentals, the practical applications of his research spanned protein crystallization, electrohydrodynamic printing, enhanced oil recovery, patterning of colloidal crystals, and fluid behavior in microgravity, including an experiment flown on the Space Shuttle Columbia.

Dudley was also a pillar supporting the department’s educational mission. Whether teaching thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, engineering mathematics, or transport phenomena, his classes were distinguished by their mathematical rigor and clarity of exposition. A demanding instructor, he earned the respect of generations of chemical engineering students.

In 1997, he received the Alpha Chi Sigma Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers; in 2001, he was named the Stephen C. Macaleer ’63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science; and in 2003 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the highest professional recognition for an American engineer.

2023 Saville Lecturer: Katie Galloway

Katie Galloway is the W. M. Keck Career Development Professor in Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her research focuses on elucidating the fundamental principles of integrating synthetic circuitry to drive cellular behaviors. Her lab focuses on developing integrated gene circuits and elucidating the systems-level principles that govern complex cellular behaviors. Her team leverages synthetic biology to transform how we understand cellular transitions and engineer cellular therapies. Galloway earned a Ph.D. and an M.S. in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and a B.S. in chemical engineering from University of California at Berkeley. She completed her postdoctoral work at the University of Southern California. Her research has been featured in Science, Cell Stem Cell, Cell Systems, and Development. She has won multiple fellowships and awards including the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Rising Star, NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award, the NIH F32, and Caltech’s Everhart Award.

Engineering high-precision, dynamic genetic control systems for cellular reprogramming

Wed, Oct. 25, 2023, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Location: Maeder Hall

Previous Lecturers in the Series

2023	Ruth Misener	Imperial College London
2022	Bryan W. Boudouris	Purdue University
2019	Heather J. Kulik	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2019	Mikhail G. Shapiro	California Institute of Technology
2018	Bradley D. Olsen	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2017	Lea A. Goentoro	California Institute of Technology
2016	Arthi Jayaraman	University of Delaware
2015	M. Scott Shell	University of California, Santa Barbara
2014	Ryan C. Hayward	University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2013	Hang Lu	Georgia Institute of Technology
2012	Todd Squires	University of California, Santa Barbara
2011	Yi Tang	University of California, Los Angeles
2010	Bartosz Grzybowski	Northwestern University
2009	Thomas M. Truskett	University of Texas at Austin