Terri Anne Camesano

Office of the Provost

Prof & Dean of Grad Studies

Affiliated Department or Office:

Chemical Engineering

Education:

PhD Environmental Engineering Pennsylvania State University 2000

MS Environmental Engineering University of Arizona 1997

BS Chemical Engineering University of Rochester 1995

BS Environmental Science University of Rochester 1995

Terri A. Camesano has been the Dean of Graduate Studies at WPI since 2014, and was the inaugural full-time Dean of Graduate Studies. In her current role, she oversees Graduate Admissions, Graduate Student Professional Development, Online Graduate Education, and Professional Education. Dean Camesano is also the primary advocate for our 2000+ graduate students, and oversees Master's, PhD, and Certificate programs in all areas of Engineering, Arts & Sciences, and Business. Dean Camesano is also faculty in Chemical Engineering, and has been at WPI since 2000.

terric@wpi.edu

Office Location

60 Prescott St. (currently remote, please contact via email)

Contact

Phone:

+1 (508) 8315000 x5380

Personal Website

Curriculum Vitae

Research Lab

Life Science and Bioengineering Center

Scholarly Work

Atomic force microscopy-guided fractionation reveals the influence of cranberry phytochemicals on adhesion of Escherichia coli

Lozeau, L.D., Rolle, M.W., and T.A. Camesano. Mechanistic predictions of the influence of collagen-binding domain sequences on human LL37 interactions with model lipids using QCM-D, Biointerphases, vol. 4(2):021006. - 2019

Lozeau, L.D., Youssefian, S., Rahbar, N., Camesano, T.A., and M.W. Rolle. Concentration- Dependent, Membrane-Selective Activity of Human LL37 Peptides Modified with Collagen Binding Domain Sequences, Biomacromolecules, vol. 19:4513-4523. - 2018

Lozeau, L.D., Rolle, M.W., and T.A. Camesano. A QCM-D Study of the Concentration-and time-dependent interactions of Human LL37 with model mammalian lipid bilayers, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, vol. 167:229-238. - 2018

Alexander, T.E., Smith, I.M., Lipsky, Z.W., Lozeau, L.D., and T.A. Camesano. Role of lipopolysaccharides and lipoteichoic acids on C-Chrysophsin-1 interactions with model Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial membranes. Biointerphases, 2020, 15 (3) , 031007. - 2020

Lozeau, L.D., Grosha, J., Smith, I.M, Stewart, E.J., Camesano, T.A., and M. W. Rolle. Alginate Affects Bioactivity of Chimeric Collagen-Binding LL37 Antimicrobial Peptides Adsorbed to Collagen–Alginate Wound Dressings. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, 2020, 6 (6) , 3398-3410 - 2020

Professional Highlights & Honors

Professional Highlights & Honors:

HERS Faculty Fellow

2011

HERS Faculty Fellow (HERS Wellesley Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration). HERS is a leadership training experience for women in higher ed, and focuses on institutional awareness, networking, and self-knowledge. In addition to a curriculum and structured networking, each participant completes a self-designed leadership project that benefits their home institution. The leadership project that I chose for my HERS experience was to create a graduate student professional development program, which eventually was incorporated into the IGERT training program, and later, extended to all graduate students at WPI.

ELATE Fellow

2012

ELATE Fellow (Executive Leadership in Academic Technology and Engineering), now known as the ELATES program. I was part of the inaugural class of the ELATE program, which is a national leadership program for senior academic women in STEM. This program helped me develop leadership competencies, including strategic finance and resource management, personal and professional leadership effectiveness, and organizational dynamics.

Fulbright Scholar

2018

Fulbright Scholar, International Education Administrators Seminar, France. The purpose of this selective seminar participation was to expose US higher ed leaders to France’s higher ed research and education systems. As a cohort of leaders from across the US, we visited multiple universities in Montpellier and Paris, and also spent time in Brussels with EU program officers and education officials.

Principal Investigator, IGERT: Training Innovative Leaders in Biofabrication

2012

From 2012-2000, I led a group of faculty and graduate trainees in our NSF IGERT program. This highly interdisciplinary graduate training program supported 20 PhD students in Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Biology & Biotechnology, Physics, and Interdisciplinary Studies.

Women of Strength Award

2005

WPI and Pratt-Whitney

NSF Career Award

2003

Sigma Xi Junior Faculty Research Award

2005

News

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Commencement 2021: A Year of Resilience

May 18, 2021

WPI Inventors Awarded Record Number of Patents

June 01, 2020

Outreach Supports Student Success During Pandemic

April 23, 2020

PhD Students Receive Global Awards

April 25, 2019

Media Coverage

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Telegram.com

College Town: WPI to Host Women in Data Science Conference

The Telegram & Gazette's College Town led off with news of WPI hosting its second annual Women in Data Science Central Massachusetts Conference, a satellite event coinciding with the annual Global Women in Data Science Conference.

Patents

Cell-Derived Matrix Scaffold

Other Inventor(s):

Tanja Dominko, Marsha Whitney Rolle, Fioleda Prifti, Denis Kole