Congratulations to the 2009 POLY Industrial Sponsors' Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!

The Graduate Student Travel awards were once again organized by the Polymer Division Membership Committee and sponsored by the POLY Industrial Advisory Board.  The awards for the Washington, DC, ACS meeting were received by:

• Nancy Zhang (Virginia Tech) whose presentation was entitled “Novel Segmented Block Copolyesters Containing Rigid Cycloaliphatic Monomers for Emerging Hermoplastic Elastomer and Biomedical Appkications”
• Thomas R. Stratton (Purdue University) who presented his work on “Biocompatibility of Quaternary Poly(vinyl pyridine)-Based Bactericidal Copolymers as determined by in Vitro Assays of Human Epithelium”
• Yan Xia (California Institute of Technology), whose presentation was entitled, “Efficient Synthesis of Brush Polymers via Living Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of Macromonomers”.

The Travel Awards are given for each ACS meeting to provide funding for polymer graduate students to travel to the National ACS meeting to present the results of their research.  Only members of the ACS and the Division of Polymer Chemistry who study at U.S. institutions are eligible for this travel award. 

Specific deadlines, award criteria, application instructions, and additional information on upcoming awards are available.

Congratulations to the 2008 POLY Industrial Sponsors' Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!

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2008 Spring Graduate Student Travel Award Winners

Congratulations to the 2008 POLY Industrial Sponsors' Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!

Brian Long (University of Texas at Austin)

Joseph Lott (Case Western Reserve University)

They will be presenting their papers at the Spring 2008 Meeting in New Orleans

We received many applicants for this competitive award and would like to thank those who applied. In addition, we encourage graduate students who are in POLY to apply for the Philadelphia fall 2008 meeting. See polyacs.org (under student section) for more details on the TBA application deadline (late spring, 2008).

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2007 Fall Graduate Student Travel Award Winners

Congratulations to the 2007 POLY Industrial Sponsors' Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!

Camilia Garces (University of Akron)

Diana Smirnova (Caltech)

They will be presenting their papers at the Fall 2007 Meeting in Boston

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2007 Spring Graduate Student Travel Award Winners

Congratulations to the 2006 POLY Industrial Sponsors' Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!

Ms. Sharlene Williams, Virginia Tech

Mr. M. Brett Runge, University of Iowa

They will be presenting their papers at the Spring 2007 Meeting in Chicago

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2006 Fall Graduate Student Travel Award Winners

Congratulations to the 2006 POLY Industrial Sponsors' Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!

Ms. Debby Chang,  Duke University

Ms. Yali Li,  Washington University, St. Louis

They will be presenting their papers at the Fall 2006 Meeting in San Francisco

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2006 Spring Graduate Student Travel Award Winners

Congratulations to the 2006 POLY Industrial Sponsors' Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!

Marcus Hunt,  North Carolina State University
"Solid-State Complexation of Polymer-Cyclodextrin Inclusion Complexes" 

Manuela Ocampo,  The University of Akron
"Anionic Synthesis and Chemistry of Thiol-Functionalized Polymers"

They will be presenting their papers at the Spring 2006 Meeting in Atlanta

(Left to right) K. Havelka, M. Ocampo, R. S. Moore, M. Hunt, E. Martin, and J. Pickel

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2005 Fall Graduate Student Travel Award Winners

The Division of Polymer Chemistry Industrial Sponsor's Group and Membership Committee announce the 2005 Fall Graduate Student Travel Award Winners

Robert Lupitsky of Clarkson University (Hierarchical mixed polymer brushes)

Jihua Chen of University of Michigan (Crystallographic cracking during a thermally induced solid state phase transition in TIPS pentacene)

Huiming Mao of the University of Minnesota (Nanoporous polystyrene by chemical etching of poly (ethylene oxide) or polylactide from ordered block copolymers)

Come hear these outstanding students present their work at the National Meeting in Washington DC. Thank you to all of our applicants!