2017 Mark Scholars Award Winners 

 

The Mark Scholars award series is designed to recognize excellence in basic or applied research and leadership in polymer science. Each awardee will have a special 1/2 day award symposium and will be recognized at the POLY/PMSE Award Reception this Fall at the ACS National Meeting in Washington, DC.   The awards are sponsored by Elsevier. 

 

Garret Miyake Receives Mark Young Scholar Award
 
Garret Miyake began his independant career at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2014. His research focuses on the development of organocatalyzed atom-transfer radical polymerization and the scalable manufacturing of photonic crystal materials through block copolymer self-assembly.  Dr. Miyake earned his Ph.D. at Colorado State University with Eugene Chen. He was a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Environmental Chemistry Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology with Robert H. Grubbs.

  

Christopher Bowman Receives Mark Scholar Award

Christopher Bowman is Distinguished Professor, Patten Endowed Chair in Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Director of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Colorado. By creatively combining monomer synthesis and design with fundamental physical-chemical understanding and mechanistic evaluation, Bowman has led the development of efficient processes for forming and modifying polymer networks and for creating smart, adaptable polymeric materials.

James Hedrick Receives Mark Senior Scholar Award

James Hedrick, IBM Almaden Research Center, spends a significant amount of time at IBM's Yorktown Heights Research Facility as well as the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) in Singapore. Jim has pioneered new polymer-forming reactions for the creation of low k materials as high temperature interlayer dielectrics and for block copolymer lithography. Jim introduced the polymer science community to the concept of organic catalysis as an environmentally benign means to living polymerizations that enabled a broad range of new applications, namely for biomaterials in the area of nanomedicine. Jim now leads a new effort at IBM in collaboration with the IBN to solve critical problems in antimicrobial resistance, gene delivery, sustained therapeutic release and cancer therapies.

The Polymer Division thanks and recognizes these outstanding individuals for their work, dedication, and leadership within the field of Polymer Science.