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SUMMARY:IMX Colloquium & MARVEL distinguished lecture - Translating Breakt
 hroughs: From Scientific Discovery to Human Impact
DTSTART:20251027T131500
DTEND:20251027T141500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Cody Friesen\, Arizona State University USA\nThe time f
 rom discovery to impact has long been measured in decades. Yet in a world 
 facing urgent challenges in climate\, energy\, natural resources\, polluti
 on\, and health disparities\, that pace is no longer sufficient. Publicati
 on will always remain a cornerstone of scholarship\, but it cannot be the 
 only means of translation. If we are to elevate both science and society\,
  we must prepare graduate students and faculty alike to view translational
  research—and entrepreneurial action—not as departures from scholarshi
 p\, but as an essential expansion of it.\nI will share three examples from
  my own path: Fluidic Energy’s rechargeable zinc–air batteries\, made 
 possible by an ionic liquid fundamental breakthrough\; Source Global’s a
 tmospheric water–harvesting Hydropanel\, now delivering renewable drinki
 ng water around the world\, enabled by a thermodynamic sleight of hand\; a
 nd a bold but unsuccessful attempt to develop injection-moldable\, all-pol
 ymer structural batteries.\nThese stories will illustrate something I hope
  is becoming more apparent: fundamental science is not apart from applied 
 research\, nor apart from downstream technology. When appropriately target
 ed\, it can unlock solutions once thought impossible.\nTrue academic stewa
 rdship today requires more than generating insight\; it requires guiding d
 iscovery to lift humanity and solve our grandest of challenges. If we embr
 ace this broader responsibility\, academia will not only advance knowledge
  but also accelerate its power to transform the world.\n\nBio: Cody Fries
 en is a materials scientist who works translationally from research at the
  bench to solutions in the field. As an academic and an entrepreneur\, he 
 is passionate about solving the world's grandest challenges.\nFounder of m
 ultiple scaled companies\, Friesen founded Source Global in 2015 to commer
 cialize the Hydropanel\, a technology that makes clean\, safe drinking wat
 er from the air independent of infrastructure. That technology is now depl
 oyed in over 50 countries across more than 500 projects. Friesen is also t
 he founder of Fluidic Energy\, the first in the world to prove a high cycl
 e life metal-air battery in the field. He is the Fulton Engineering Profes
 sor of Innovation at Arizona State University and is a Senior Sustainabili
 ty Scientist at the ASU Global Institute of Sustainability.\nFriesen was a
 warded the McNulty Prize by the Aspen Institute in 2022\, given to those w
 ho are focused on dismantling our world’s toughest problems. He was also
  honored with the Lemelson-MIT Prize in 2019\, the largest prize for inven
 tion in the USA. Friesen was named by The Aspen Institute as a 2015 Henry 
 Crown Fellow and among the "TR35\," by MIT’s Technology Review in 2009.\
 nFriesen has 103 granted US patents and over 400 patent matters globally. 
 He earned a BSE in Materials Science and Engineering from Arizona State Un
 iversity\, and a Ph.D. in the same discipline from the Massachusetts Insti
 tute of Technology. 
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