A meet-and-greet session for faculty will follow Tech alum David Nicholas’s presentation this Thursday, April 29. The presentation will be at 11 a.m. in Room 113 of the Stonecipher Lecture Hall (SLH), and the meet-and-greet will be from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the Laboratory Science Commons Building, Room 3331. The Office of Research and Economic Development and the Chemical Engineering Department are hosting the event. Nicholas, CEO of Earth Science Laboratories in Rogers, Arkansas, will be discussing ESL’s research and development ventures. ESL has found that a unique chemical composition accounted for many distinctive features of its products and is now the basis of the company’s rapidly growing technology platform. ESL is exploring opportunities for collaborative research as the company sees many opportunities for the chemistry that are outside its founding expertise in water treatment. For more information, contact Sandy Storie (sstorie@tntech.edu or 931-372-6756).