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CALL for POLY/PMSE Student Chapter Proposals (5/12)

 

Important Announcement Concerning Polymer Preprints (4/12)

 

The POLYED Committee (co-chairs C. Carraher and J. Droske) would like your feedback on proposed changes to the ACS undergraduate curriculum that would incorporate polymer science.  Please take a minute to complete the following survey.

 

POLY Councilors' and Committee Reports  from the San Diego ACS meeting (312) have been posted. (4/12) 

 

IUPAC MACRO 2012 - Abstract submission deadline EXTENDED to April 23rd, 2012. (4/12)

 

ACS POLY invites nominations for the POLY $500 Student Travel Award to attend the IUPAC World Polymer Congress June 24-29, 2012 at the Virginia Tech Campus, Blacksburg, VA.  Nomination Deadline is April 16, 2012. (3/12)

 

The winner of the 2012 AkzoNobel Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Polymer Chemistry is Dr. Garret Miyake, who earned the Ph.D. in 2011 at Colorado State University under the mentorship of Prof. Eugene Chen. The award will be presented at a symposium in honor of Dr. Miyake at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in Philadelphia August 19-23, 2012 in the Division of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering. (3/12)

 

The ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry is pleased to announce the winner of the 2012 Industrial Polymer Scientist Award, Dr. Babu N. Gaddam, a 3M Corporate Scientist and adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota and the University of St. Thomas. (3/12)

 

Graduate Student Travel Awards for Fall 2012.   Application deadline was March 14, 2012.  View Previous Award Winners.(2/12)

 

The 10th National Graduate Research Polymer Conference will be held May 21 - 24, 2012 and is hosted by the Macromolecular Science and Engineering Department at Case Western Reserve University. (2/12)

 

Dr. Benny D. Freeman of the Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin will receive the Roy W. Tess Award in Coatings for 2012. An award symposium in his honor will be organized by PMSE for the Fall 2012 ACS meeting in Philadelphia.

 

CONGRATULATIONS 2012 POLY FELLOWS.

Diana Gerbi, 3M
Paula T. Hammond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard Laine, University of Michigan
Charles McCormick III, University of Southern Mississippi
Kathryn Uhrich, Rutgers University

Kathryn Beers, Polymer Division, NIST

Dana Garcia, Arkema, Inc.

Marc Hillmyer, University of Minnesota

Timothy Long, Virginia Tech

John Pochan, Cornell University

Javid Rzavev, University at Buffalo

 

These individuals were recognized during the ACS National Meeting, during the POLY/PMSE Award Reception in San Diego, California, March 2012. (1/12)

 

The winner of the 2012 PAUL J. FLORY Polymer Education Award is Bob Cohen.  An award symposium was held during the Spring ACS National Meeting in San Diego and the awardee was recognized during the POLY/PMSE awards reception on Wednesday evening. (11/11)

 

The Spring 2012 Graduate Student Travel Awards Winners are: Xiaojun Wang from the University of Tennessee, and Ryan L. Weber from the University of Wisconsin.  The awards were presented during the Spring 2012 ACS Meeting in San Diego, CA.  Also check out previous winners. (11/11) 

 

 

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Registration is now open for the 10th National Graduate Research Polymer Conference, May 21-24, 2012, Cleveland, Ohio

ABSTRACT DEADLINE EXTENDED to MAY 10

 

The 2012 Spring Polymer Preprint is now available on-line

 

The technical program is now available for the 2012 spring national meeting in San Diego

 

 

  

Upcoming POLY Workshops

 

POLYCONDENSATION 2012, September 16 - 19, 2012

    

 

FLUOROPOLYMER 2012, October 14-17, 2012

 

 

POLYURETHANES 2012

October 28-31, 2012

 

SILICON CONTAINING POLYMERS and COMPOSITES, December 9-12, 2012

 

 

ADVANCES IN MATERIALS FOR PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS SYSTEMS
February 17-20, 2013

 

 

ADVANCES IN MATERIALS AND PROCESSES FOR POLYMERIC MEMBRANE MEDIATED WATER PURIFICATION

February 24-27, 2013

 

ADVANCES AND CHALLENGES OF SUSTAINABLE POLYMERIC MATERIALS

May 20 - 23, 2013

  

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