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Dr. Sherine Obare Dean and Professor Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering Lunch Banking on Women: Bridging the Generational Gap Beth Eller Senior Vice President Of Mortgage Lending Ciji Wright Contact Center Director Claudia Kiger Branch Manager, North Point Closing Remarks Backpack Beginnings Activity Sponsored by Revolution Mill

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Keynote Speaker Sherine Obare, PhD

Dr. Sherine Obare is the Dean of the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, an innovative collaboration between North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNC Greensboro). She is also a Full Professor of Nanoscience at UNC Greensboro. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from West Virginia State University, obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Chemistry from the University of South Carolina, and thereafter, was a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Postdoctoral fellow at The Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Obare is an environmental chemist whose research focuses on nanotechnology. Her work has led to innovations in the detection and remediation of environmental contaminants, designing nanoscale materials for drug delivery, improved healthcare, biomass conversion, and alternative energy, as well as understanding the fate, transport and toxicity of anthropogenic nanomaterials.

She began her career at Western Michigan University as Assistant Professor of Chemistry in 2004, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2009, and to Full Professor in 2014. At Western Michigan University, she served in leadership roles as Associate Dean for Research in the College of Arts and Sciences and as Associate Vice President for Research. Dr. Obare’s research program has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, the Army Research Office, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Education, and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.

Obare’s educational background is in Chemistry and Environmental Engineering. She has published over 100 articles and her research work has garnered over $20 M in grant funding. She has trained over 100 students in her laboratory and is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award, and the NSF Division of Materials Research American Competitiveness and Innovation (ACI) Fellowship. In 2013, Obare was named as one of the top 25 Women Professors in Michigan. In 2019, she was elected as Fellow of the American Chemical Society. The Triad Business Journal recognized Obare as a Triad Power Player in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 for shepherding and executing game-changing initiatives that are moving the Triad economy forward. Triad Business Journal also named Obare as an Outstanding Women in Business in 2020. She was named a 2021 Trailblazer by Chemical and Engineering News. In her role as Dean, she established the Innovation Collaborative Laboratory for Nanotechnologies to Empower the Future Soldier (ICONS), a collaboration between JSNN and the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Soldier Center. The purpose of ICONS is to establish technologies through integrated science and engineering that will position the Soldier for the U.S. Army’s operating concept of 2040.

Dr. Obare has published over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has served as editor for 5 books, including ‘Green Technologies for the Environment (2014)’, ‘The Power and Promise of Early Research (2016)’ and “Chemistry Education for a Sustainable Society (2020)’. She has mentored a large number of postdoctoral fellows, doctoral, masters, undergraduate and high school students in research. She has been highly active promoting science to elementary and middle school students locally and nationally. Dr. Obare serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Nanomaterials.

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