Pictured are award recipient Marc Hillmyer and Robert Moore, POLY chair

POLY is delighted to congratulate  Prof. Marc Hillmyer for winning the Carl S. Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Award.

In twelve years on the Minnesota faculty he has become recognized as an international leader in our field.   Prof. Hillmyer has made substantial contributions not only in polymer synthesis but also in theory and experiment; in particular, the use of block copolymers as templates for nanoporous materials, the development of biorenewable polymers, and the synthesis and self-assembly of novel block copolymers with fluorinated blocks in aqueous solution.  His impact on the polymer chemistry community is outstanding for such a young scientist.

He has over 200 publications and the quality and importance of his work is exceptional.  Over a dozen of his coworkers have gone on to academic positions, at outstanding research institutions such as UConn, Wisconsin, Louisiana State, Imperial College, Colorado State, and the University of Houston. 

The University of Minnesota has recently bestowed on him a McKnight Distinguished University Professorship, and four years ago the Chemistry Department selected him from among the entire tenured faculty to occupy the Elmore Northey Chair.