On Thursday, October 4th at Purdue University, ME Professor Costas Grigoropoulos gave the 2018 Hawkins Memorial Lecture in Heat Transfer on “Laser Materials Processing and Nanomanufacturing.” The annual lecture series was established in 1984 to honor the memory of George A. Hawkins, former dean of the College of Engineering. The memorial lecture provides an opportunity for a leader in heat transfer research to present topics of broad interest to the university community. The following day, Professor Grigoropoulos gave the Hawkins Lecture in Heat Transfer on “Pulsed Laser Functionalization of Semiconductor Nanomaterials.”