Date:         Fri, 28 Feb 1997 12:54:45 -0600
From: Kenneth Carter/Almaden/IBM <kcarter@ALMADEN.IBM.COM>
Subject:      Award Winners - Public Perception of Polymers

Award Winners - Public Perception of Polymers

The Industrial Sponsors Group of the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry 
has
announced the 1996 awardees in its program to improve the public ,s 
perception
of polymers.  A grant of $10,000, to be paid over a three year period, 
has been
made to Dr. Richard Stein of the University of Massachusetts and Ms 
Valerie
Wilcox of the National Plastics Center and Museum in Leominster,
Massachusetts.  The grant is for the purpose of the development and 
production
of a series of videotapes to further the understanding of polymers in 
modern
society.

This is the fifth annual grant awarded by the Industrial Sponsors Group, 
which
consists of nearly 40 companies which support the educational and public
outreach activities of the Division of Polymer Chemistry.