ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry  Graduate Student Travel Awards 2004 Winners Announced - November 24, 2003 The Membership Committee of the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry would like to announce the winners of the 2003 Graduate Student Travel Award. We thank all of those students who applied for the first year of this award program and we encourage participation in the application process in Fall 2004! Congratulations to the following: Lee G. Stanek (University of Minnesota; Advisor = William B. Gleason) "New Reactive Copolymeric Systems Containing VDMA (2-Vinyl-4,4'-Dimehtylazlactone) for Biomaterials Applications" Jun Zhang (Stony Brook University; Advisor = Benjamin Chu) "Graft Copolymers of PDMA-g-PMMA: Solvent Quality Induced Association Behavior and its Application in dsDNA Separation" Joette Russell (University of North Carolina; Advisor = Edward T. Samulski) "Alignment of Nematic Liquid Crystals Using Self-Assembled Carbon Nanotubes" These grants may be applied only for registration, travel, and accommodations, and are restricted to the Spring ACS National Meeting. Only members of the ACS and the Division of Polymer Chemistry who study at U. S. institutions were eligible. Preference was given to the following: (1) any applicant who will be making his/her first presentation (regardless of format) at a national ACS meeting, (2) applicants with outstanding academic merit, (3) applicants with financial restraints. The ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry's Membership Committee is sponsoring a program to provide funding for polymer science graduate students to travel to a National ACS meeting in 2004 to present the results of their research. Grants may be applied only for registration, travel, and accommodations, and are restricted to the Spring ACS National Meeting. Only members of the ACS and the Division of Polymer Chemistry who study at U. S. institutions are eligible. Awards will be limited to one per institution. Awards will be given with preference to the following order: (1) any applicant who will be making his/her first presentation (regardless of format) at a national ACS meeting, (2) applicants with outstanding academic merit, (3) applicants with financial restraints. | |
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