Matthew Tirrell appointed to second term as IME director

Matthew Tirrell has been appointed to a second five-year term as Pritzker Director and dean of the faculty of the Institute for Molecular Engineering , President Robert J. Zimmer and Provost Eric Isaacs announced. Tirrell's new term begins July 1. The institute was created in 2011 in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory, where Tirrell also serves as deputy laboratory director for science. The institute's work explores innovative technologies through design and manipulation at a molecular scale, with potential impact on major societal issues. Since becoming IME's founding director in 2011, Tirrell has led the institute on a course of rapid growth in the emerging discipline of molecular engineering. The program has already attracted a core of 15 faculty members-a number that will continue to grow, with a thriving graduate program and a new undergraduate major. The institute's Pritzker Nanofabrication Facility, a sophisticated resource for scientists and engineers at UChicago and beyond, recently opened in the new William Eckhardt Research Center.