October 20, 2009:

Arthur Epstein loves plastic. He believes in it. Epstein spoke about plastics and the new amazing science that is happening with polymers. He opened with a clip of “The Graduate,” with a young Dustin Hoffman being given advice from an older man. “One Word: Plastics.”

Epstein told us stories about his segue into the world of plastics via metals in graduate school.  He talked to us about the merging of plastics with technology, biomedical fields, physics, and chemistry. It is a new frontier for plastics as we learned about great advances in the medical field, including a new glucose sensor Epstein and his colleagues are creating.

I enjoyed hearing about how science is “being with people,” as Epstein says.

I liked hearing about his passionate work with plastics.