Graphical Abstracts Due: October 15th

http://abstracts.acs.org/

The 8th annual symposium to recognize outstanding undergraduate students in polymer science and engineering will take place in New Orleans in 2013. We invite institutions to send their best undergraduate student researchers to speak or display a poster on his or her original research in this special symposium.
 
Limited travel awards will be available.  Recipients will be chosen based on the quality of the graphical abstract, the relevance of the research to the theme of the national meeting, and to ensure distribution of awards to multiple institutions.   In addition to the travel awards, $500 Best Oral Presentation and Best Poster Presentation Awards sponsored by the POLY Industrial Advisory Board will be awarded at the meeting.
 
This meeting is intended to provide recognition to outstanding undergraduate students in polymer science and engineering, to foster networking and exposure, to introduce opportunities in graduate research and to help develop the careers of future leaders in both academia and industry.  A keynote lecture in polymer science, career panel, discussion of graduate school opportunities, and a networking reception are included in the symposium.
 
Student should enter the abstract of his or her presentation at the ACS abstract submission site  http://abstracts.acs.org/, under "Undergraduate Research in Polymer Science”  in the POLY division by October 15, 2012.  Students may request poster or oral presentation.  A GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT is required.  Please be sure to submit a figure with the abstract in PACS. 
 
Looking forward to your submissions!
 
The Organizing Committee,
 
Sarah Morgan, Sergei Nazarenko, Dan Savin,
The University of Southern Mississippi
 
Chris Goh, Sarah Goh
Williams College
 
Kevin Cavicchi
The University of Akron
 

Prof. Sarah E. Morgan, sarah.morgan@usm.edu
Prof. Sergei Nazarenko, sergei.nazaranko@usm.edu  
Prof. Daniel Savin, daniel.savin@usm.edu  
Prof. Christopher Goh, christopher.goh@william.edu  
Prof. Sarah Goh, Sarah.L.Goh@williams.edu  
Prof. Kevin Cavicchi, kac58@uakron.edu