Fall Convocation 2021

by Office of Events and Programs

Lecture/Speaker Admission: Free Experiences: First Years Topic: Literature and Poetry

Wed, Aug 25, 2021

4:45 PM – 5:45 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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Fall Convocation is the formal celebration that opens each new academic year at Case Western Reserve University. Held during the first week of the fall semester, Fall Convocation features keynote remarks from the Elaine G. Hadden Distinguished Visiting Author, along with recognition of faculty receiving the highest honor—the title of Distinguished University Professor. 

The 2021 Elaine G. Hadden Distinguished Visiting Author will be Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet, Tracy K. Smith. Her fourth book of poems, Wade in the Water, was chosen as Case Western Reserve University’s 2021 common reading book. Each year since 2002, the university’s common reading has served as a basis for programs and discussions for first-year students.

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Vladimir Bulovi─ç

Professor of Electrical Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladimir-bulovic-b09a951/

Vladimir Bulovi─ç is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, holding the Fariborz Maseeh Chair in Emerging Technology.  He directs the Organic and Nanostructured Electronics Laboratory, co-leads the MIT-Eni Solar Frontiers Center, leads the Tata GridEdge program, and is the Founding Director of MIT.nano, MIT's nano-fabrication, nano-characterization, and prototyping facility. He is an author of over 250 research articles (cited over 60,000 times and recognized as the top 1% of the most highly cited in the Web of Science). He is a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and an inventor of over 120 U.S. patents in areas of light emitting diodes, lasers, photovoltaics, photodetectors, chemical sensors, programmable memories, and micro-electro machines, majority of which have been licensed and utilized by both start-up and multinational companies.  The start-up companies Bulovi─ç co-founded jointly employ over 350 people, and include Ubiquitous Energy, Inc., developing nanostructured solar technologies, Kateeva, Inc., focused on development of printed electronics, and QD Vision, Inc. (acquired in 2016) that produced quantum dot optoelectronic components.  Products of these companies have been used by millions.  Bulovi─ç was the first Associate Dean for Innovation of the School of Engineering and the Inaugural co-Director of MIT’s Innovation Initiative, which he co-led from 2013 to 2018. For his passion for teaching Bulovi─ç has been recognized with the MacVicar Fellowship, MIT’s highest teaching honor.  He completed his Electrical Engineering B.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees at Princeton University


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