Venkat Bommisetty, a finalist for Associate Vice President for Research at MSU, will deliver a public presentation at 10 a.m. on Wednesday [Dec. 13] in Fowlkes Auditorium. He is currently the managing director of the Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit at the University of California, Irvine. Previously, he was founder and chief scientific officer for NextGen Solar, a start-up company in photovoltaics and nanomaterials. He has also held faculty and administrative positions at South Dakota State University.