Saville Lectures

Dudley A. Saville
Dudley A. Saville
In memory of our colleague, Princeton University’s Department of Chemical Engineering has established the Dudley A. Saville Lectureship for exceptional early-career chemical engineers and scientists. Inspired by his family and colleagues, this series reflects Dudley Saville’s longtime association with Princeton, his uncompromising pursuit of excellence, and his commitment to helping young people begin their academic careers. In his nearly 40 years at Princeton University, he pioneered new directions in fluid mechanics, especially electrohydrodynamics. Although Dudley’s emphasis was always on fundamentals, the practical applications of his research spanned protein crystallization, electrohydrodynamic printing, enhanced oil recovery, patterning of colloidal crystals, and fluid behavior in microgravity, including an experiment flown on the Space Shuttle Columbia.

Dudley was also a pillar supporting the department’s educational mission. Whether teaching thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, engineering mathematics, or transport phenomena, his classes were distinguished by their mathematical rigor and clarity of exposition. A demanding instructor, he earned the respect of generations of chemical engineering students.

In 1997, he received the Alpha Chi Sigma Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers; in 2001, he was named the Stephen C. Macaleer ’63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science; and in 2003 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the highest professional recognition for an American engineer.

2023 Saville Lecturer: Katie Galloway

Katie Galloway is the W. M. Keck Career Development Professor in Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her research focuses on elucidating the fundamental principles of integrating synthetic circuitry to drive cellular behaviors. Her lab focuses on developing integrated gene circuits and elucidating the systems-level principles that govern complex cellular behaviors. Her team leverages synthetic biology to transform how we understand cellular transitions and engineer cellular therapies. Galloway earned a Ph.D. and an M.S. in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and a B.S. in chemical engineering from University of California at Berkeley. She completed her postdoctoral work at the University of Southern California. Her research has been featured in Science, Cell Stem Cell, Cell Systems, and Development. She has won multiple fellowships and awards including the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Rising Star, NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award, the NIH F32, and Caltech’s Everhart Award.

Previous Lecturers in the Series

2023

Ruth Misener

Imperial College London

2022

Bryan W. Boudouris

Purdue University

2019

Heather J. Kulik

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2019

Mikhail G. Shapiro

California Institute of Technology

2018

Bradley D. Olsen

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2017

Lea A. Goentoro

California Institute of Technology

2016

Arthi Jayaraman

University of Delaware

2015

M. Scott Shell

University of California, Santa Barbara

2014

Ryan C. Hayward

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2013 Hang Lu

Georgia Institute of Technology

2012 Todd Squires

University of California, Santa Barbara

2011

Yi Tang

University of California, Los Angeles

2010

Bartosz Grzybowski

Northwestern University

2009

Thomas M. Truskett

University of Texas at Austin