POLY FELLOWS Awardees 

      

 

2018 POLY Fellows

 

On behalf of the Selection Committee, we would like to congratulate the 2018 POLY Fellows.  An equivalent of .1% of POLY membership are selected from submitted nominations.  

 

This year’s selected and inducted awardees truly demonstrate excellence in all ways that POLY members advance our field of polymer science, through scientific accomplishments and service to the profession. 

This years Awardees will be honored with a plaque during the Spring ACS National Meeting during the POLY/PMSE Award Reception on Wednesday:

Mark Dadmun (University of Tennesse)

Satish Kumar (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Chuanbing Tang (University of South Carolina)
Albert Yee (University of California, Irvine)
Edward T. Samulski (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Garret Miyake (Colorado State University)
Christopher Bowman (University of Colorado)
Theresa Reineke (University of Minnesota)
Scott Iacono (US Air Force Academy)
Lesia Linkous Pristas (POLY Business Office)

 

2017 POLY Fellows

 

On behalf of the Selection Committee, we would like to congratulate the 2017 POLY Fellows.  An equivalent of .1% of POLY membership are selected from submitted nominations.  

 

This year’s selected and inducted awardees truly demonstrate excellence in all ways that POLY members advance our field of polymer science, through scientific accomplishments and service to the profession. 

This years Awardees will be honored with a plaque during the Spring ACS National Meeting during the POLY/PMSE Award Reception on Wednesday:

Joel Oxman (3M)

Abhimanyu O. Patil (ExxonMobil)

Christoph Weder (Adolphe Merkle Institute)

Kathy Mitchem (POLY business Office)

 

2016 POLY Fellows

 

On behalf of the Selection Committee, we would like to congratulate the 2016 POLY Fellows.  An equivalent of .1% of POLY membership are selected from submitted nominations.  

 

This year’s selected and inducted awardees truly demonstrate excellence in all ways that POLY members advance our field of polymer science, through scientific accomplishments and service to the profession. 

 

Awardees were honored with a plaque during the Spring ACS National Meeting during the POLY/PMSE Award Reception on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 in San Diego. 

Travis W. Baughman, DSM Engineering Plastics

Brian C. Benicewicz, University of South Carolina

Kenneth Carter, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Todd Emrick, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Timothy Lodge, University of Minnesota 

Sarah Morgan, University of Southern Mississippi
Bradley Olsen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Buddy Ratner, University of Washington
Stuart Rowan, Case Western Reserve University

Kenneth J. Wynne, Virginia Commonwealth University

 

POLY Fellows Award: (l-r)
top: K. Haider (POLY Chair) and B. Benicewicz (Univ. of
South Carolina), bottom: T. Baughman (DSM), K. Wynne
(Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), S. Morgan (Univ. of Southern
Mississippi), T. Emrick (Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst)

 

2015 POLY Fellows

 

On behalf of the Selection Committee, we would like to congratulate the 2015 POLY Fellows.  An equivalent of .1% of POLY membership are selected from submitted nominations.  Other recipients are inducted including 2014 POLY Flory and IPA Awardees. 

 

This year’s selected and inducted awardees truly demonstrate excellence in all ways that POLY members advance our field of polymer science, through scientific accomplishments and service to the profession. 

 

Awardees were honored with a plaque during the Spring ACS National Meeting during the POLY/PMSE Award Reception on Wednesday, March 25, 2015 in the Plaza Ballroom AB, Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel at 5:30pm.  Thank you for participating in the POLY Awards series.

 Robert Allen, IBM
 Jianjun Cheng, Univ. Illinois
 Richard Gross, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
 George Odian, CUNY
 Kenneth Shea, Univ. of California, Irvine
 Thomas Zawodzinski, Univ. of Tennessee-Knoxville

 

 

 

 POLY Fellows: (l-r) K. Shea (Univ. of California-Irvine), R. Allen (IBM), R. Gross (Rensselaer Poly Tech. Inst.), R. Advincula (POLY Chair), J. Cheng (Univ. of Illinois), T. Zawodzinski (Univ. of Tennessee-Knoxville)

 

 

2014 POLY Fellows

 

Ten outstanding POLY members were honored recipients of the 2014 POLY Fellows Award for their outstanding achievements and contributions to polymer science and their profession.

 

On behalf of the 2014 Selection Committee, we would like to congratulate the 2014 POLY Fellows.  The award recognizes Fellows of the Division of Polymer Chemistry for their achievement and contribution to polymer science and our organization.

 

Zhenan Bao, Stanford University                                                           
Pradip K. Bhowmik, University of Nevada-Las Vegas                                                
Nikos Hadjichristidis, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)                                       
Kristi Kiick, University of Delaware                                                         
Christine Landry-Coltrain, Eastman Kodak Company                                                
Jeff Linhardt, Google, Inc.                                                
Rachel O’Reilly, University of Warwick                                                 
Buddy D. Ratner, University of Washington                                                     
Kenneth Wagener, University of Florida                                               
James H. Wang, Kimberly-Clark Corporation

 

 2014 POLY Fellows Award: (l-r) Back Row, N. Hadjichristidis
(KAUST), K. Beers (POLY Chair), K. Wagener (Univ. of Florida).
Center Row, B. Ratner (Univ. of Washington), J. Wang (Kinberly-
Clark Corp.). Bottom Row, J. Linhardt (Google, Inc.),
C. Landry-Coltrain (Eastman Kodak Co.)

 

 

2013 POLY Fellows

 

The award recognizes Fellows of the Division of Polymer Chemistry for their achievement and contribution to our science and our organization.

 

A total of 6 outstanding POLY members were honored recipients of the 2013 POLY Fellows Award for their outstanding achievements and contributions to Polymer Science and the Profession. Recipients include; (l to r) Pal Arjunan [Trelleborg Offshore - US], Robert Cohen [Massachusetts Institute of Technology], Babu Gaddam [3M Company], Heather Maynard [UCLA], Ulrich Schubert [Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany], Marcus Weck [New York University]

 

 

POLY FELLOWS: (l-r) Marcus Weck (New York University),

Gregory Tew (POLY Chair), Babu Gaddam (3M Company),

Pal Arjunan (Trelleborg Offshore-US), and Heather Maynard

(University of California, Los Angeles)

 

 

2012 POLY Fellows

 

The award recognizes Fellows of the Division of Polymer Chemistry for their achievement and contribution to our science and our organization.

 

A total of 11 outstanding POLY members were honored recipients of the 2012 POLY Fellows Award for their outstanding achievements and contributions to Polymer Science and the Profession. Recipients include; Kathryn Beers [Polymer Division,NIST], Dana Garcia [Arkema, Inc.], Diana Gerbi [3M Company], Paula T. Hammond [Massachusetts Institute of Technology], Marc Hillmyer [University of Minnesota], Richard Laine [University of Michigan], Timothy Long [Virginia Tech], Charles McCormick III [University of Southern Mississippi], John Pochan [Cornell University], Javid Rzavev [University at Buffalo], and Kathryn Uhrich [Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey].

 

 

 

(l-r) C. McCormick, III, Univ. of Southern Miss., J. Mabry,
POLY Chair, R. Laine, Univ. of Michigan, Diana Gerbi, 3M
Co., M. Hillmyer, Univ. of Minnesota, K. Beers, Polymers
Division, NIST, T. Long, Virginia Tech, K. Uhrich, Rutgers,
The State Univ. of New Jersey, P. Hammond, MIT

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2011 POLY Fellows

 

The award recognizes Fellows of the Division of Polymer Chemistry for their achievement and contribution to our science and our organization.

 

Rigoberto Advincula [University of Houston], Patrick Cassidy [Texas State University], Warren Ford [Oklahoma State University-Emeritus], Axel Mueller [University of Bayreuth], Judy Riffle [Virginia Tech.], and Thomas Smith [Rochester Institute of Technolgy] received the POLY Fellow Award for their outstanding achievements and contributions to Polymer Science and the Profession.

 

 

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2010 POLY Fellows

 

The new award recognizes Fellows of the Division of Polymer Chemistry for their achievement and contribution to our science and our organization.   To inaugurate the Fellows program, a group of 59 distinguished past recipients of POLY awards, listed below, have been induced as founding POLY Fellows. POLY Fellowship is intended to recognize excellence in all ways that POLY members advance our field of polymer science, either through scientific accomplishments, service to the profession, or both.

 

Fellows received their plaques at the POLY/PMSE Awards Reception in March 2010 during the ACS National Meeting

 

Founding Fellows: To inaugurate the Fellows program, a group of 59 distinguished past recipients of POLY awards, listed below, were inducted as founding POLY Fellows.    Inaugural class 2010  flyer

 

 

2010 Inaugural class

Harry R. Allcock	Alan D. English	James E. Mark	Joseph C. Salamone
Eric Baer	Lewis J. Fetters	W. Harry Mandeville	Richard S. Stein
Frank D. Blum	Jean Frechet	Jimmy W. Mays	Robson F. Storey
Neta L. Byerly	Robert H. Grubbs	Anne M. Mays	Ulrich W. Suter
William J. Brittain	Henry K. Hall	Wayne L. Mattice	Timothy M. Swager
Charles E. Carraher	Janelle M. Hampton	Krzysztof Matyjaszewski	Gregory N. Tew
H. N. Cheng	Craig J. Hawker	James E. McGrath	Edwin L. Thomas
Geoffrey W. Coates	James Hedrick	Robert B. Moore	David A. Tirrell
James Crivello	Paul M. Hergenrother	Robert S. Moore	S. Richard Turner
Bill M. Culbertson	S. Randall Holmes-Farley	Bruce M. Novak	S. Reddy Venumbaka
Frederick R. Dammont	Richard M. Ikeda	Thomas J. Pacansky	Otto Vogl
William H. Daly	Frank N. Kelley	Donald R. Paul	Thomas C. Ward
Joseph M. DeSimone	Robert S. Langer	Eli M. Pearce	Garth L. Wilkes
John P. Droske	Robert W. Lenz	Lloyd M. Robeson	Karen L. Wooley
James Economy	William J. MacKnight	Ann B. Salamone