BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ZContent.net//ZapCalLib 1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:COACS Industry Career Development Event LOCATION:Chemistry A101 TZID:America/Denver DTSTART:20211130T173000 UID:2026-04-28-21-15-20@natsci.colostate.edu DTSTAMP:20260428T211520 Description:Join Our Industry Panel Discussion\nHosted by COACS-The Colorad o Section of the American Chemical Society\nPanel Members:\nDr. Nicholas T hornburg\, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)\nDr. Nicholas (Nick ) Thornburg is a chemical reaction engineer at the National Renewable Ener gy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden\, CO. Nick has a B.S. in Chemical Engineeri ng from Washington University in St. Louis and a Ph.D. in Chemical Enginee ring from Northwestern University\, in addition to industrial R&\;D exp erience with The Dow Chemical Company and 3M. Nick’s current research in terests at NREL lie in multiphase reaction engineering for advanced mobili ty applications and for renewable small-molecule chemicals and fuels.\nDr. Brooke Benson\, Corden Pharma\nDr. Benson is an organic chemist specializ ing in total synthesis of natural products. Dr. Benson just graduated from CSU and will be starting as a Senior Chemist at Corden Pharma in January. \nLacey Beck\, Kuntze Instruments\nLacey earned her MS in chemistry out of the Sambur research group in June 2019. She worked as an electrochemist i n the Advanced Technology Group at Hach from June 2019 - January 2020. The n she worked as a QC Analyst at Boulder Scientific Company from January 20 20 - July 2020. She was hired as the Customer Success Manager at Kuntze In struments in July 2020 and has been in that role since.\nDr. Zach Nilsson\ , Edinburgh Instruments\nDr. Nilsson was in Dr. Justin Sambur\\'s group an d defended his PhD in July 2021. In Justin\\'s group\, Zach worked on a fl uorescence energy transfer project and got experience building optical sys tems. Zach started with Edinburgh Instruments immediately after defending. At Edinburgh Instruments he is the Optical Product Engineer covering Nort h America.\n \;\n\nPizza and refreshments will be served in A101. 5:30 pm END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR