2011 Mark Scholars Award Winners 

 

The Herman F. Mark and Mark Scholars awards recognize outstanding research and leadership in Polymer Science and are sponsored by Elsevier. 

 

 

 

Professor Javid Rzayev of Buffalo is the recipient of the Mark Young Scholar Award.  His research program embraces the building of tailored polymer structures and architectures and the analyzing of supramolecular organization and self-assembly. The main focus is on shape-persistent macromolecules as building blocks for nanoscale assemblies and functional materials. 

 

Professor Timothy Long of Virginia Tech is our recipient of the Mark Scholar Award.  Prof. Long is devoted to fundamental investigations of living polymerization processes, molecular architecture-performance relationships, branched polymers, polymer design at the interface with biology, supramolecular chemistry, and the pioneering of in-situ spectroscopic techniques in polymer and monomer synthesis.

 

Professor Jimmy Mays of the University of Tennessee is the recipient of the Mark Senior Scholar Award.  Prof. Mays is internationally recognized as one of the leaders in the synthesis of polymers and copolymers having tailored architectures and in modifying surfaces and particles with polymers.

       

Each Mark Scholar had a full session at the Denver meeting concluding with their award address.  The Polymer Division thanks and recognizes these outstanding individuals for their work, dedication, and leadership within the field of Polymer Science.

 

 

 

 

 

 Awardees group: (l to r, row 1 - bottom) J. Mays, Mark Scholar
Awardee, R. B. Moore, POLY Chair
(l to r, row 2 - center) J. Rzayev, T. E. Long,
Mark Scholar Awardees
(l to r, row 3 - top) R. Turner, and A. Mueller,
Elsevier Award Sponsor Reps.