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Highlights
Gregory Coates awarded the 2007 Carl S. Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry award .
Presented at the ACS meeting in Salt Lake City in March 2009. See Awards. (8/08)(4/09)
POLY again wins ChemLuminary Award
at the Philadelphia ACS meeting. POLY was cited for outstanding service to its members. (10/08)
2008 National Starch and Chemical Recipient Announced - Nicolay (Nick) Tsarevsky of Carnegie Mellon University. See Awards (10/08).
Division member C. Grant Willson- awarded a 2007 National Medal of Technology and Innovation. See Press release for additional information. (9/08)
The 2008 Industrial Polymer Science Award for
outstanding industrial innovation and creativity in the application of polymer science has been awarded to Dr. S. Richard Turner. See Awards. (8/08)
The 2008 Paul J. Flory Polymer Education Awardee
is Professor Frank Kelley of the University of Akron. Stay tuned for more information.(6/08)
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POLY Sponsored and Cosponsored Meetings
POLY Programming at National ACS Meetings
Advances in Polyolefins 2009
September 20 - 23, 2009,
Santa Rosa, California USA.
10th International Symposium on Polymers for Advanced Technologies (PAT2009)
October 10-14, 2009,
Jerusalem, Israel.
11th Pacific Polymer Conference (PPC11)
6 - 10 December 2009, Cairns Convention Centre, in Cairns, Australia.
Pacifchem 2010
December 15 - 20, 2010, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
( ...full list of POLY Sponsored and Cosponsored Meetings...)
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Salt Lake City POLY Board Reports Please feel free to look at some of the efforts of our volunteer committees.(7/09)
5th Excellence In Graduate Polymer Research Symposium.
information and forms for 2009 (Deadline Oct. 17, 2008) and
information and pictures from SLC are available.(9/08)
Polymer Preprints for the Salt Lake City Meeting
are available on-line (free for members) and on CD (at a small cost). See Polymer Preprints on-line). (3/09)
POLY Councilors' Report
from the Salt Lake City ACS meeting (3/09) has been posted. (4/09)
Graduate Student Travel Awards for Fall 2009
Please refer to the application instructions.
Award winners announced for S09 and prior. (2/09)
With sadness, we report the passing of W. "Val" Metanomski, former POLY Historian and Nomenclature Chair (1/09)
2008 Election Results Announced
R.B. Moore, M. Dadmum, W. Daly, R. Advincula, M. Meador and C. Coltrain-Landry elected. See election results. (1/09)
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Changes in the POLY Division Bylaws are on the ballot in this election cycle. Click to download a copy of the proposed bylaw changes. Information on the Fall election was sent out with the newsletter. (11/08)
Now soliciting for the
AzkoNobel Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Polymer Chemistry deadline Jan. 31, 2009.
As of Fall 2008 (Philadelphia Meeting) - Polymer Preprints is available to POLY members on-line only.
Instructions for preparing, viewing, purchasing are available on the Polymer Preprints On-Line page.
The NSF Polymer Workshop report
is available for download on the linked website.(4/08)
The application to host future Graduate Student Meetings is located on the Graduate Student Meeting page. (4/08)
2007 Election Results Announced
Farmer, Beers, Pochan, and Reineke elected. See election results.
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