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2003

The chair for 2003 is Thoman Hahn of National Starch. Six finalists have been selected among 13 applicants for the 2003 ICI Student Award in Applied Polymer Science. This Award, sponsored by ICI and administered through the Joint Polymer Education Committee of the ACS Divisions of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) and Polymer Chemistry (POLY), is given annually for the best paper presented at the ICI Student Award Symposium as part of the PMSE program at the Fall ACS Meeting.

The six finalists and their respective papers are:
-Christopher W. Bielawski, California Institute of Technology
Synthesis of Cyclic Polymers Using Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization (ROMP)
-Yushan Hu, Case Western Reserve University
Structural Model for Oxygen Permeability of a Liquid Crystalline Polymer
-Brian K. Johnson, Princeton University
NanoPrecipitation of Organic Active using Mixing and Block Copolymer Stabilization
-Benjamin Falk, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Optical pyrometry: A novel method for monitoring photopolymerizations
-Won Jae Chung, Georgia Institute of Technology
Structure-property relationships for Pd catalyzed poly(Norbornene) derivatives
-Chunyan Chen, University of Michigan
Molecular-Level Understanding of Polymer-Silane Interacting Mechanism by SFG Vibrational Spectroscopy

2002
Jinsang Kim is the winner of the 2002 ICI Student Award in Applied Polymer Science. This Award, sponsored by ICI and administered through the Joint Polymer Education Committee of the ACS Divisions of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) and Polymer Chemistry (POLY), is given annually for the best paper presented at the ICI Award Symposium as part of the PMSE program at the Fall ACS Meeting.

Dr. Kim is a recent graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology where his advisor was Professor Timothy M. Swager. The title of his paper, which was presented at the recent Fall ACS Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, was "Funneling Fluorescence Energy via Vectorial Energy Transfer Within Conjugated Polymer Thin Films".

The other finalists who presented papers at the Award Symposium were: Sagar S. Rane (The University of Akron); S. Ramaswamy (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); Ashok J. Maliakal (Columbia University); Deanna L. Gomochak (The University of Akron); and J. Brian Hutchison (University of Colorado).

The Award, consisting of $750 and a plaque, will be presented to Dr. Kim at the PMSE Division luncheon at the Spring 2003 ACS Meeting in New Orleans, Louisianna.

2001
Brian E. Priore was the winner of the 2001 ICI Student Award in Applied Polymer Science. Brian was a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University where his advisor was Professor Lynn M. Walker. The Award, consisting of $750 and a plaque, was presented to Dr. Priore at the PMSE Division Awards Luncheon on Monday, April 8, 2002, at the Rosen Center Hotel.

The other finalists who presented papers at the Award Symposium were: Christopher L. Lester (University of Southern Mississippi); Robert T. Mathers (The University of Akron); Denise Wade Rafferty (Case Western Reserve University); Osman Rathore (Cornell University); and Sucharita Roy (University of Massachusetts Lowell).

2000
The POLYED ICI Student Award in Applied Polymer Science, chaired by Elsa Reichmanis, reports that Ms. Amy K. Poshusta (Burkoth) was selected as the recipient of the year 2000 ICI Student Award based on her presentation at the Fall ACS Meeting in Washington, D. C. Amy was a graduate student from the University of Colorado, where her advisor was Professor Kristi S. Anseth. The title of her paper was "Photocurable Polyanhydrides Engineering for Orthopaedic Applications".

The Award was presented to Dr. Poshusta at the PMSE Division Awards Luncheon on Monday, March 30, 2001, in San Diego.

The other finalists who presented papers at the award symposium were: Guruswamy Kumaraswamy (Cal Tech), Rob G. H. Lammertink (Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands), Haiying Li (Georgia Tech), Royale S. Underhill (Univ. Florida), and Qing Wang (Univ. Chicago).

1999
Shu Yang is the winner of the 1999 ICI Student Award in Applied Polymer Science. This Award, sponsored by ICI and administered through the Joint Polymer Education Committee of the ACS Divisions of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) and Polymer Chemistry (POLY), is given annually for the best paper presented at the ICI Award Symposium as part of the PMSE program at the Fall ACS Meeting.

Shu was a graduate student from Cornell University, where her advisor was Professor Christopher Ober. The title of his paper, which was presented at the recent Fall ACS Meeting in New Orleans, LA, was "Improving Resist Performance with Block-Copolymer Additives".

The other finalists who presented papers at the Award Symposium were: Chris Zhisheng Chen, University of Delaware; Lewis W. Flanagin, University of Texas at Austin; Andrew Guenthner, University of Akron; Amy A. Lefebvre, Polytechnic University; William A. Mowers, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu, McGill University.

The Award, consisting of $750 plus a plaque, was presented to Shu at the PMSE Division luncheon at the ACS Spring Meeting in San Francisco, CA.

1996
The winner of the 1996 award is H. Y. Low of Case Western Reserve University whose work was entitled: Polybenzoxazines: Expanding Phenolic Resin with Structural Applications. The paper was presented in the Sherwin-Williams Award Symposium at the ACS meeting in Orlando, Florida, August 25-30, 1996

The selection committee also selected the following papers for presentation.
Maryam Moaddeb - University of Texas at Austin, Paper: Gas Transport Properties of Thin Polymeric Membranes in the Presence of Silicon Dioxide Particles; Linda K. Molnar- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Paper: Polymer-Based Replacement Solvents for Minimizing Pollution During the Synthesis of Fine Chemicals; V. Shivshankar - University of Massachusetts, Paper: Chromic Properties and the Surface Morphology of Polydiacetylenes; C. A. Guymon- University of Colorado, Paper: Monomer Heterogeneity Before Polymerization in Polymer Stabilized Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals; F. B. Li - University of Akron, Paper: Linear Optical Anisotropy in Aromatic Polyimide Films and its Application as Negative Birefringent Compensators in Liquid Crystal Displays.

1995
The divisions of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering and Polymer Chemistry are pleased to announce that Valerie V. Sheares is the winner of the 1995 Sherwin-Williams Student Award in Applied Polymer Science. This Award, sponsored by the Sherwin-Williams Company and administered through the Joint Polymer Education Committee of PMSE and POLY, is given annually for the best paper presented in the Sherwin-Williams Award Symposium as part of the PMSE program at the Fall ACS meeting.

Valerie recently graduated with a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where her advisor was Professor Joseph M. DeSimone. The title of her paper, which was presented at the recent Fall ACS meeting in Chicago IL, was "Thiophene-Based Materials: Poly (arylene ether ketone)s and Poly(imide arylene ether) Statistical Copolymers".

The other finalists who presented papers in the Award Symposium were Tom Ebeling, Case Western Reserve University, Christine Butler, University of Delaware, Jianrong Feng, University of Toronto, Jorg Muller, University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and Marc Goldfinger, University of Pennsylvania.

The Award consisting of $500 plus a plaque, will be presented to Valerie at the Division luncheon at the ACS Spring Meeting in New Orleans.