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Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
The Travel Awards are given for each ACS meeting to provide funding for polymer graduate students to travel to the National ACS meeting to present the results of their research. Only members of the ACS and the Division of Polymer Chemistry who study at U.S. institutions are eligible for this travel award. Specific deadlines, award criteria, application instructions, and additional information on upcoming awards can be found here.
2018 Fall Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2018 Fall POLY Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!
The Graduate Student Travel awards were organized by the Polymer Division Membership Committee and sponsored by the POLY Industrial Advisory Board.
The award winners for the Fall 2018, National ACS Meeting in Boston are:
Mr. Jiazhen Chen
Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University
“Scandium-catalyzed olefin polymerizations: Polar Comonomer Enchainment and Nuclearity effects
Ms. Sahar Qavi
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Department of Chemistry, New Mexico State University
“Chemorheology of Polymerization in Nano-Confined Structures of Self-Assembled Block Copolymers”
2018 Spring Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2018 Spring POLY Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!
The Graduate Student Travel awards were organized by the Polymer Division Membership Committee and sponsored by the POLY Industrial Advisory Board.
The award winners for the Spring 2018, New Orleans, LA ACS meeting are Mr. Louis “CHIP” Reisman III (University of Alabama) and Mr. Hamed Vahabi (Colorado State University) for their works entitled:
- "The Anionic Ring-Opening Polymerization of Azetidine" by Louis Reisman, Elizabeth A. Rowe, and Paul A. Rupar
- "Coalescence-induced self-propulsion of viscous droplets on superomniphobic surfaces" by Hamed Vahabi, Wei Wang, Seth Davies, Joseph M. Mabry, and Arun K. Kota
2017 Fall Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2017 Fall POLY Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!
The Graduate Student Travel awards were organized by the Polymer Division Membership Committee and sponsored by the POLY Industrial Advisory Board.
The award winners for the Fall 2017, Washington, DC ACS meeting are Mr. Charles (Adrian) Figg, Organic Division, Department of Chemistry (Center for Macromolecular Science & Engineering) , University of Florida and Mr. Jacob N. Lockhart, Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University.
Charles Figg
University of Florida
Jacob Lockhart
Vanderbilt University
Travel Award: (l-r): J. Lockhart (Vanderbilt Univ.), M. Hillmyer (POLY Chair),
C. Figg (Univ. of Florida), M. Hunt (IAB)
2017 Spring Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2017 Spring POLY Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!
The Graduate Student Travel awards were organized by the Polymer Division Membership Committee and sponsored by the POLY Industrial Advisory Board.
Dibyendu Debnath
University of Akron
Title:
Simple and Accurate Determination of Reactivity Ratios of Chain Copolymerization following Terminal Model by
in-situ H-NMR Technique
View: Debnath Graphical Abstract
(to be presented Spring 2017)
Wanxing Xu
Colorado School of Mines
Title:
Calculating Initial Lattice Configurations to Enhance Computational Efficiency for Polydisperse Polymer Simulations
View: Xu Graphical Abstract
(to be presented Spring 2017)
2016 Fall Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2016 Fall POLY Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!
Azadeh Farahanchi (The University of Massachusetts Lowell) - “Understanding the Effect of ultra-High Speed Twin Screw Extrusion on the Thermo-Mechanical Properties of Polymers”
and
Joey Kim (Caltech) - “Crystallization-driven ordering and self-assembly in bottlebrush polymers”
Travel Award: (l-r)
T. Baughman (IAB Chair), J. Kim (Caltech), K. Haider (POLY Chair),
A. Farahanchi (University of Massachusetts Lowell),
& M. Hunt (IAB Vice Chair)
2016 Spring Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2016 Spring POLY Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!
The Graduate Student Travel awards were organized by the Polymer Division Membership Committee and sponsored by the POLY Industrial Advisory Board.
The award winners for the Spring 2016, San Diego, CA ACS meeting are Mr. Baraka Lwoya (Tulane University) for his work entitled “Characterizing the nanoscale properties of cyclic block copolymers in thin films” and Mr. Jeff Lopez (Stanford University) for his work entitled “Synthesis and characterization of supramolecular self-healing polymers designed for application in lithium-ion batteries”.
Travel Award: (l-r)
T. Baughman (IAB Chair), B. Lwoya (Tulane University)
K. Haider (POLY Chair), M. Hunt (IAB Vice-Chair),
and J. Lopez (Stanford University)
Keren Zhang
Olivia Durham
2015 Fall Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2015 Fall POLY Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!
The Graduate Student Travel awards were organized by the Polymer Division Membership Committee and sponsored by the POLY Industrial Advisory Board.
The award winners for the Fall 2015, Boston, MA, ACS meeting are Ms. Keren Zhang from Virginia Tech for her work entitled "Nucleobase-Functionalized Acrylics with Enhanced Mechanical Strength and Processability: From DNA to Supramol Adhesives", and Ms. Olivia Z. Durham from Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY for her work entitled "Functional Polymer Particles Prepared by ‘Click’ Thiol-Ene and Thiol-Yne Suspension Polymerizations".
The Travel Awards are given at each ACS meeting to provide funding for polymer graduate students to travel to the National ACS meeting to present the results of their research. For additional information visit:http://site6645-1.websiteforge.com/649.html
2015 Spring Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2015 Spring POLY Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!
The Graduate Student Travel awards were organized by the Polymer Division Membership Committee and sponsored by the POLY Industrial Advisory Board.
The award winners for the Spring 2015, Denver, CO, ACS meeting were Mr. Xiangtao Meng (Virginia Tech) for his work entitled "Olefin Cross-Metathesis, a
Mild, Modular and Efficient Approach Towards Functionalized Cellulose Esters”, and Ms. Jihyeon Yeom (University of Michigan) for her work entitled "Chiral Transmission to Self-Assembling Nanostructures from Circularly Polarized Light”.
The Travel Awards are given at each ACS meeting to provide funding for polymer graduate students to travel to the National ACS meeting to present the results of their research. For additional information visit:http://site6645-1.websiteforge.com/649.html
(l-r) T. Baughman (DSM),
X. Meng (Virginia Tech),
Rigoberto Advincula (POLY Chair), and Diana Gerbi (3M)
(l-r) D. Gerbi (IAB), K. Beers (POLY Chair), T. Earmme (Univ. of Washington, T. Baughman (IAB), and P. Cherniawski (Univ. of Massachusetts)
2014 Fall Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2014 Fall POLY Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!
The Graduate Student Travel awards were organized by the Polymer Division Membership Committee and sponsored by the POLY Industrial Advisory Board.
The award winners for the Fall 2014, San Francisco, CA, ACS meeting are Mr. Benjamin Peter Cherniawski from UMass for his work entitled “Effects of linear side-chains on 2,5-bis-(3-alkylthiophen-2-yl) thienothiophene semiconductors for organic electronics” and Mr. Taeshik Earmme from the University of Washington for his work entitled "Highly efficient all-polymer solar cells enabled by control of polymer blend morphology".
The Travel Awards are given at each ACS meeting to provide funding for polymer graduate students to travel to the National ACS meeting to present the results of their research. For additional information visit:http://site6645-1.websiteforge.com/649.html
2014 Spring Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2014 Spring POLY Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!
The Graduate Student Travel awards were organized by the Polymer Division Membership Committee and sponsored by the POLY Industrial Advisory Board.
The award winners for the Spring 2014, Dallas, TX, ACS meeting were Mr. Zachary S. Kean, Duke University, for his work entitled, “Stress-Responsive Polymers via Mechanochemistry”, and Ms. Sebla Onbulak, State University of New York at Buffalo for her work entiteled "Synthesis of Photo-Cross-Linkable Core-Shell Bottlebrush Copolymers and their Transformation into Well-Defined Organic Nanotubes”.
The Travel Awards are given at each ACS meeting to provide funding for polymer graduate students to travel to the National ACS meeting to present the results of their research. For additional information visit:http://site6645-1.websiteforge.com/649.html
(l-r) Travel Awards: S. Onbulak (SUNY), Z. Kean (Duke Univ.), T. Baughman
(IAB), and K. Beers (POLY Chair)
2013 Fall Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2013 Fall POLY Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!
The Graduate Student Travel awards were organized by the Polymer Division Membership Committee and sponsored by the POLY Industrial Advisory Board.
The award winners for the Fall 2013, Indianapolis, IN, ACS meeting are Abhay Sham Joijode, North Carolina State University ["Glass-Transition Temperatures of Nanostructured Amorphous Bulk Polymers and Their Blends"] and Bin Tan, University of Massachusetts-Lowell ["Preparation of Active Layers Based on Poly(e-hexylthiophene) Colloida Suspensions"].
The Travel Awards are given at each ACS meeting to provide funding for polymer graduate students to travel to the National ACS meeting to present the results of their research. For additional information visit:http://site6645-1.websiteforge.com/649.html
2013 Spring Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2013 Spring POLY Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!
The Graduate Student Travel awards were organized by the Polymer Division Membership Committee and sponsored by the POLY Industrial Advisory Board.
The award winners for the Spring 2013, New Orleans, LA, ACS meeting are Mallory L. Hammock, Stanford University for her work on "Non-Covalent Incorporation of Specific Binding Sites onto Organic Transistors Via Block-Copolymer Templating", and Wei-Fan Kuan, University of Delaware for his work on “Interfacial Modification Effects on the Self-Assembly of Lithium-Doped Block Copolymers”.
The Travel Awards are given at each ACS meeting to provide funding for polymer graduate students to travel to the National ACS meeting to present the results of their research. For additional information visit:http://site6645-1.websiteforge.com/649.html
Mallory L. Hammock
Wei-Fan Kuan
(l to r) T. Baughman (Industrial Advisory
Board), B. Sharma (Grad. Student Travel
Awardee), J. Mabry (POLY Chair), and
Z. Chen (Grad Student Travel Awardee)
2012 Fall Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2012 Fall POLY Industrial Sponsors' Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!
The Graduate Student Travel awards were organized by the Polymer Division Membership Committee and sponsored by the POLY Industrial Advisory Board.
The award winners for the Fall 2012 Philadelphia, PA, ACS meeting are Zhuo Chen, Univ. of Florida for his work on “Well-Defined Light Harvesting Polystyrenes Made from Controlled Radical Polymerization and ”Click” Chemistry” and Babloo Sharma, The University of Texas at Dallas,for his work on “Perfluorocycloalkenyl (PFCA) Aryl Ether Polymers”.
The Travel Awards are given at each ACS meeting to provide funding for polymer graduate students to travel to the National ACS meeting to present the results of their research. For additional information visit:http://site6645-1.websiteforge.com/649.html
2012 Spring Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2012 Spring POLY Industrial Sponsors' Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!
The Graduate Student Travel awards were organized by the Polymer Division Membership Committee and sponsored by the POLY Industrial Advisory Board.
The award winners for the Spring 2012 San Diego, CA, ACS meeting are Xiaojun Wang, University of Tennessee at Knoxeville, presenting “Microstructure Effect on Self Assembly of Polystyrene-?-Sulfonated Polycyclohexadiene”, and Ryan L. Weber, University of Wisconsin-Madison, presenting “Nanostructured Polymerized Ionic Liquid Block Copolymers”.
The Travel Awards are given at each ACS meeting to provide funding for polymer graduate students to travel to the National ACS meeting to present the results of their research. For additional information visit:http://site6645-1.websiteforge.com/649.html
(l-r) R. Weber, Univ of Wisconsin-
Madison, J. Mabry, POLY Chair,
and X. Wang, Univ. of Tennessee
2011 Fall Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2011 Fall POLY Industrial Sponsors' Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!
The Graduate Student Travel awards were organized by the Polymer Division Membership Committee and sponsored by the POLY Industrial Advisory Board. The awards for the Fall 2011 Denver, CO, ACS meeting are to be received by Mr. Abhijit Paul from Oklahoma State University, whose presentation was entitled “Polystyrene Grafted Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Composite” and Mr. Jia Wei from the University of Maryland, who presented his work on “Precision Polyolefin Waxes: Synthesis, Structure Characterization and Thermal Analysis”.
Abhijit Paul with POLY chair R. B. Moore
2011 Spring Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2011 Spring POLY Industrial Sponsors' Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!
The Graduate Student Travel awards were organized by the Polymer Division Membership Committee and sponsored by the POLY Industrial Advisory Board. The awards for the Spring 2011 Anaheim, CA, ACS meeting were received by Ms. Elizabeth G. Kelly, University of Delaware and Ms. Januka Budhathoki-Uprety of North Carolina State University.
2010 Fall Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2010 Fall POLY Industrial Sponsors' Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!
The Graduate Student Travel awards were organized by the Polymer Division Membership Committee and sponsored by the POLY Industrial Advisory Board. The awards for the Fall 2010 Boston, MA, ACS meeting were received by Corinne E. Lipscomb (University of Wisconsin-Madison) whose presentation was entitled “Development and Characterization of New Biodegradable Triiblock Copolymers Based on Poly (Vinyl Esters)”, and Huaxing Zhou (University of North Carolina at Chapel) who presented his work on “Donor-Acceptor Polymers Incorporating Alkylated Dithienyl Benzothiadiazole”.
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2010 Sring Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2010 Spring POLY Industrial Sponsors' Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!
The Graduate Student Travel awards were once again organized by the Polymer Division Membership Committee and sponsored by the POLY Industrial Advisory Board. The awardees were recognized at the San Francisco, ACS National Meeting:
Ms. Srijanani Bhaskar
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
“Self Assembling Biodegradable Bicompartmental
Microparticles”
Advisor: Professor Richard M. Laine
Mr. Feng Liu
University of Massachusetts--Amherst, Amherst, MA
“Solution-Processed Oligoacene Single Crystal Transistors”
Advisor: Professor Alejandro L. Briseno
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2009 Fall Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2009 POLY Industrial Sponsors' Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!
The Graduate Student Travel awards were once again organized by the Polymer Division Membership Committee and sponsored by the POLY Industrial Advisory Board. The awards for the Washington, DC, ACS meeting were received by:
- Nancy Zhang (Virginia Tech) whose presentation was entitled “Novel Segmented Block Copolyesters Containing Rigid Cycloaliphatic Monomers for Emerging Hermoplastic Elastomer and Biomedical Appkications”
- Thomas R. Stratton (Purdue University) who presented his work on “Biocompatibility of Quaternary Poly(vinyl pyridine)-Based Bactericidal Copolymers as determined by in Vitro Assays of Human Epithelium”
- Yan Xia (California Institute of Technology), whose presentation was entitled, “Efficient Synthesis of Brush Polymers via Living Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of Macromonomers”.
The Travel Awards are given for each ACS meeting to provide funding for polymer graduate students to travel to the National ACS meeting to present the results of their research. Only members of the ACS and the Division of Polymer Chemistry who study at U.S. institutions are eligible for this travel award.
Specific deadlines, award criteria, application instructions, and additional information on upcoming awards are available.
2009 Spring Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2008 POLY Industrial Sponsors' Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!
Ken Graham, University of Florida
Margaret J. Sobkowicz, Colorado School of Mines
Guoging Zhang, University of Virginia
They will be presenting their papers at the Spring 2009 Meeting in Salt Lake City
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2008 Spring Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2008 POLY Industrial Sponsors' Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!
Brian Long (University of Texas at Austin)
Joseph Lott (Case Western Reserve University)
They will be presenting their papers at the Spring 2008 Meeting in New Orleans
We received many applicants for this competitive award and would like to thank those who applied. In addition, we encourage graduate students who are in POLY to apply for the Philadelphia fall 2008 meeting. See polyacs.org (under student section) for more details on the TBA application deadline (late spring, 2008).
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2007 Fall Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2007 POLY Industrial Sponsors' Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!
Camilia Garces (University of Akron)
Diana Smirnova (Caltech)
They will be presenting their papers at the Fall 2007 Meeting in Boston
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2007 Spring Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2006 POLY Industrial Sponsors' Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!
Ms. Sharlene Williams, Virginia Tech
Mr. M. Brett Runge, University of Iowa
They will be presenting their papers at the Spring 2007 Meeting in Chicago
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2006 Fall Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2006 POLY Industrial Sponsors' Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!
Ms. Debby Chang, Duke University
Ms. Yali Li, Washington University, St. Louis
They will be presenting their papers at the Fall 2006 Meeting in San Francisco
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2006 Spring Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2006 POLY Industrial Sponsors' Graduate Student Travel Award Winners!
Marcus Hunt, North Carolina State University
"Solid-State Complexation of Polymer-Cyclodextrin Inclusion Complexes"
Manuela Ocampo, The University of Akron
"Anionic Synthesis and Chemistry of Thiol-Functionalized Polymers"
They will be presenting their papers at the Spring 2006 Meeting in Atlanta
(Left to right) K. Havelka, M. Ocampo, R. S. Moore, M. Hunt, E. Martin, and J. Pickel
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2005 Fall Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
The Division of Polymer Chemistry Industrial Sponsor's Group and Membership Committee announce the 2005 Fall Graduate Student Travel Award Winners
Robert Lupitsky of Clarkson University (Hierarchical mixed polymer brushes)
Jihua Chen of University of Michigan (Crystallographic cracking during a thermally induced solid state phase transition in TIPS pentacene)
Huiming Mao of the University of Minnesota (Nanoporous polystyrene by chemical etching of poly (ethylene oxide) or polylactide from ordered block copolymers)
Come hear these outstanding students present their work at the National Meeting in Washington DC. Thank you to all of our applicants!
For more information on these and other POLY division awards and events, please visit the website at www.polyacs.org
