PMSE Officers, Councilors, and Volunteers

The Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Division is a part of the American Chemical Society and governed by the bylaws, which can be found on the ACS website (pdf).

A list of officers, councilor and alternative councilors, members-at-large, and the rest of the Executive Committee Volunteers are listed below. See the list of former chairs and chair messages here.

Officers

Technical Programming

Administrative Staff

Councilors and Alternative Councilors, and Members-At-Large

Councilors and alternative councilors are listed with their three year terms.

Name	Affiliation	Email	Councilors Term
Dean Webster	North Dakota State University	[Email]	2021-2023
A. Jay Dias	Formely ExxonMobil	[Email]	2022-2024
Julie L. P. Jessop	Mississippi State University	[Email]	2022-2024
Christopher L. Soles	NIST	[Email]	2023-2025
Charles E. Carraher	Florida Atlantic University	[Email]	Alternative 2021-2023
John W. Gilmer	King University	[Email]	Alternative 2021-2023
Michael Jaffe	NJ Innovation Institute	[Email]	Alternative 2022-2024
Michael S. Silverstein	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology	[Email]	Alternative 2023-2025

Members-at-large are listed by their years of membership and their primary affiliation.

Name	Affiliation	Email	Members At Large Term
Padma Gopalan	University of Wisconsin	[Email]	2022-2023
Christian Pester	The Pennsylvania State University	[Email]	2022-2023
Rafael Verduzco	Rice University	[Email]	2022-2023
Enrique Gomez	The Pennsylvania State University	[Email]	2023-2024
Hyunki Kim	3M Corporate Research Laboratory	[Email]	2023-2024
Matthew Webber	University of Notre Dame	[Email]	2023-2024

Award and Fellowship Selection

Award and Fellowship Selection Committees are listed on their respective pages.  Volunteers are listed by their PMSE role and their primary affiliation.

Award Committee	Name	Affiliation	E-mail
ACS Fellowship Selection Co-Chair	Meisha Shofner	Georgia Institute of Technology	[Email]
Distinguished Service Award, Chair	Qinghuang Lin	Lam Research Corporation	[Email]
Cooperative Research Award, Chair	Howard Creel	3M Center	[Email]
Distinguished Service Award	Dean Webster	North Dakota State University	[Email]
Distinguished Service Award	Benny Freeman	University of Texas at Austin	[Email]
Doolittle Award	Alexa S. Kuenstler	University of Colorado Boulder	[Email]
Doolittle Award	Rachel A. Letteri	University of Virginia	[Email]
Doolittle Award	Adrianne M. Rosales	The University of Texas at Austin	[Email]
Doolittle Award	Abhishek Roy	National Renewable Energy Laboratory	[Email]
Eastman Chemical Student Award Chair	Kelly Burke	University of Connecticut	[Email]
Eastman Chemical Student Award	John W. Gilmer	King University	[Email]
Eastman Chemical Student Award	Thomas Hahn	ShurTape	[Email]
Eastman Chemical Student Award	Jason Jenkins	Eastman Chemical Company	[Email]
PMSE Fellowship Selection	Gustavo A. Carri	ExxonMobil Technology & Engineering Co.	[Email]
PMSE Fellowship Selection	Vivek Prabhu	NIST	[Email]
PMSE Fellowship Selection	Shu Yang	University of Pennsylvania	[Email]
PMSE Global Graduate Student/Mentor Award Co-Chair	Michael J. A. Hore	Case Western Reserve University	[Email]
PMSE Global Graduate Student/Mentor Award Co-Chair	LaShanda Korley	University of Delaware	[Email]
PMSE Graduate Student Travel Award Chair, ACS Fellowship Selection Co-Chair	Daniel Savin	University of Florida	[Email]
Roy W. Tess Award	Jamil Baghdachi	Eastern Michigan University	[Email]

Other Committees

Award and Fellowship Selection Committees are listed on their respective pages.  Volunteers are listed by their PMSE role and their primary affiliation.

Committee	Name	Affiliation	Department	Email
By-Laws	Malancha Gupta	University of Southern California		[Email]
Finance & Investment	Cristina Thomas	3M Company	Corporate R&D	[Email]
Finance & Investment Chair; Symposium Funding	A. Jay Dias	Formely ExxonMobil		[Email]
MACRO (Macromolecular Alliance for Community, Resources, and Outreach)	Bhavya Singhi	Zeus Industrial Products, Inc.		[Email]
MACRO (Macromolecular Alliance for Community, Resources, and Outreach)	Charles E. Carraher	Florida Atlantic University	Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry	[Email]
MACRO (Macromolecular Alliance for Community, Resources, and Outreach) Co-Chair	Philip Costanzo	California Polytechnic & State University	Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry	[Email]
MACRO (Macromolecular Alliance for Community, Resources, and Outreach) Co-Chair	Elizabeth S. Sterner	Lebanon Valley College		[Email]
Membership	Rong Yang	Cornell University		[Email]
Membership Chair	Davita Watkins	Ohio State University		[Email]
PMSE Corner Chair	Bindu Krishnan	The Dow Chemical Company		[Email]
PMSE Corner	Eileen Ernst	PMSE		[Email]
PMSE Corner	Hee Jeung Oh	Pennsylvania State University		[Email]
PMSE Corner	Hyunki Kim	3M Corporate Research Laboratory		[Email]
PMSE Corner	Enrique Gomez	Penn State University		[Email]
PMSE Corner	Abhishek Shete	Dow		[Email]
PMSE Corner	Samanvaya Srivastava	University of California – Los Angeles	Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering	[Email]
PMSE Corner	Huaxing (Daniel) Zhou	Evonik		[Email]
PMSE/POLY Student Chapters	Daniel Savin	University of Florida	Department of Chemistry	[Email]
Volunteer Pipeline	Jason Benkoski	The Johns Hopkins University	Applied Physics Laboratory	[Email]
Volunteer Pipeline	Laura Bradley	University of Massachusetts		[Email]
Volunteer Pipeline	Robert Hickey	Penn State University		[Email]
Webinar	Michael S. Silverstein	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology	Department of Materials Science &	[Email]
Webinar	Rachel A. Letteri	University of Virginia	Department of Chemical Engineering	[Email]
Webinar Chair	Dominik Konkolewicz	Miami University	Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry	[Email]
Webmaster	Peter Johnson	SABIC		[Email]
Young Polymer Scientist & Engineer	Luis Campos	Columbia University	Department of Chemistry	[Email]
Young Polymer Scientist & Engineer	Jamie M. Garcia	IBM Almaden Research Center		[Email]
Young Polymer Scientist & Engineer	Melissa A. Grunlan	Texas A & M University	Department of Biomedical Engineering	[Email]
Young Polymer Scientist & Engineer	Emily Pentzer	Texas A&M University		[Email]
Young Polymer Scientist & Engineer	Christian Pester	The Pennsylvania State University	Department of Chemical Engineering	[Email]

Liaisons to other committees within ACS and outside of ACS are listed here.

Liaison To	Name	Affiliation	Email
ACS Multidisciplinary Program Planning	Eva Harth	University of Houston	[Email]
Biotechnology (BTEC Secretariat)	Jamil Baghdachi	Eastern Michigan University	[Email]
International Advisory Committee Co-Chair	Michael S. Silverstein	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology	[Email]
International Advisory Committee Co-Chair	Zhihao Shen	Peking University	[Email]
Liaison to the Biomaterials Society	Erin Lavik	University of Maryland, Baltimore County	[Email]
Macromolecular (MACR) Secretariat	Javid Rzayev	University at Buffalo	[Email]
YCC Liaison to PMSE	Bhavya Singhi	Zeus Industrial Products, Inc.	[Email]

Volunteers

Name	Affiliation	Email
Timothy Bunning	Air Force Research Laboratory	[Email]
Adam B. Burns	ExxonMobil Research & Engineering	[Email]
Kevin Cavicchi	University of Akron	[Email]
Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez	University of Texas	[Email]
Honggang Cui	The Johns Hopkins University	[Email]
Cher Davis	NIST	[Email]
Chris Ellison	University of Minnesota	[Email]
Todd Emrick	University of Massachusetts	[Email]
Nagarjuna Gavvalapalli	Georgetown University	[Email]
Jaime C. Grunlan	Texas A & M University	[Email]
Zhiqun Lin	National University of Singapore	[Email]
Kenny Mineart	Bucknell University	[Email]
Anjali Patil	Chanel, Inc.	[Email]
Theodore Provder	Polymer and Coatings Consultants, LLC	[Email]
Chad Snyder	NIST	[Email]
Christopher M. Stafford	NIST	[Email]
Bryan D. Vogt	The Pennsylvania State University	[Email]