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PMSE Graduate Student Travel Award

The PMSE Graduate Student Travel Award is given to provide partial travel support to women and/or under-represented (African American, Hispanic, or Native American) graduate students to attend and present their research at ACS national meetings.

2025 Award Winners

The PMSE Graduate Student Travel Award is given to provide partial travel support to women and/or under-represented (African American, Hispanic, or Native American) graduate students to attend and present their research at ACS national meetings in the Division of Polymeric Materials:  Science & Engineering.  PMSE is proud to announce the winners of this award for the Spring 2025 ACS Meeting in San Diego and invites you to attend their presentations.

SIERRA YOST
The Pennsylvania State University

Advisors: Bryan Vogt and Christian Pester

Physical aging in additively manufactured PETG

Symposium: Characterization and Prediction of Properties of Polymeric Materials
Date: Sunday, March 23, 2025
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Place: Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Pacific Ballroom, Section 15

MENG JIANG
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Advisor: Josh Worch

Employing dynamic covalent chemistry for recyclable and adaptable electronic materials

Symposium: Novel Applications of Polymeric Materials
Date: Monday, March 24, 2025
Time: 9:15 a.m.
Place: Marriott Marquis, San Diego Marina, Pacific Ballroom, Section 24

NATALIE MAMROL
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Advisor: Gregory Rutledge

Screening of biobased furanoate polyesters for sustaining fibers

Symposium: Advancing Polymer Science: Integrating High Throughput Techniques and Digital Technologies for Sustainability and More
Date: Monday, March 24, 2025
Time: 8:35 a.m.


Award Details

A minimum of four awards will be made yearly, two for each of the National ACS Meetings. Each awardee will receive a $500 award to be applied to costs of her/his travel to the meeting.  Awardees will be acknowledged at the PMSE/POLY Awards Ceremony at the National ACS Meeting.

History

The award was originally established in 2018.

Nominations

Nomination packages should follow package submission guidelines detailed below.

Applications will be reviewed by the PMSE Graduate Student Travel Award committee. The selection will be made prior to the conference via email.

Past Recipients

Award Details

Purpose

The Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) Division presents the PMSE Graduate Student Travel Award to provide partial travel support to under-represented graduate students and present the research at ACS National Meetings.

Rules of Eligibility

PMSE members who are female and/or under-represented (African American, Hispanic, or Native American) graduate students performing research in fields related to polymer science and engineering are encouraged to apply. US citizens or permanent residents, full-time graduate students at the time of application, and submission of an abstract (as presenter) to a PMSE symposium at a National ACS Meeting are required. The awardee MUST be a member of the PMSE Division.  Note that the first year of Division membership is free, and subsequent years are $1 for students.  If you are not a member, you can join by visiting the website: https://pmsedivision.org/join/

Abstracts presented in another division will not be considered, and the awardee MUST be presenting their work as a poster or oral presentation during a PMSE symposium.

Nomination Process

Eligible students are required to submit an online application.

In preparation for submission, the online form will request the following information:
• Nominee Contact Information
• Advisor Information
• Graduate Date
• Abstract Information

Eligible students are required to submit an online application. There is no currently active application available, but the application structure can be seen at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PMSE-CHI22.

For ACS Spring meetings, please check back in January and February for updated application and deadline dates. For ACS Fall meetings, please check back in June and July for an updated application and deadline dates.  Dates vary based on the timing for the conference.

Award Selection

Applications will be reviewed by the PMSE Graduate Student Travel Award committee.

Award Announcement and Nature

Selection will be made prior to the conference via email. Awardees will be notified by the PMSE Graduate Student Travel Award committee.

Each awardee will receive a $500 award to be applied to costs of her/his travel to the meeting. Awardees will be acknowledged at the PMSE/POLY Awards Ceremony at the National ACS Meeting.

Full List of Award Winners

YearMeetingWinnerUniversityPresentation Title
2025SpringSierra YostThe Pennsylvania State UniversityPhysical aging in additively manufactured PETG
2025SpringMeng JiangVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityEmploying dynamic covalent chemistry for recyclable and adaptable electronic materials
2025SpringNatalie MamrolMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyScreening of biobased furanoate polyesters for sustaining fibers
2024FallKacie WellsNorth Carolina State UniversityThermoplastic elastomers with inherent antimicrobial properties for reduction in the spread of harmful microbes
2024FallNan (Louise) ChenJohns Hopkins UniversityEnhancing electrical conductivity and power factor in poly-glycol-bithienylthienothiophene with oligoethylene glycol side chains through tris(pentafluorophenyl) borane doping
2023FallElizabeth MurphyUniversity of California, Santa BarbaraAccelerated Discovery of Block Copolymers through Automated Chromatography
2023FallAtalaya WilbornHarvard UniversityDynamic Gaussian Shape Morphs via Magnetically Aligned Liquid Crystal Elastomer Films
2023FallHannah DedmonNorth Carolina State UniversityAntiplasticizing Interaction between Aldaric Acid Isomers and Polyacrylonitrile for Improved Gel Spinning
2023SpringErin CraterVirginia TechQuantitative Analysis of Liquid Metal-Polymer Composite Morphology via X-ray Scattering
2023SpringJackie ZhuVirginia TechEnhancing enzyme-triggered H2S-induced Cytotoxicity in Glioma via a Supramolecular Peptide-iron Mate3rials
2022FallSofia GoodrichUniversity of FloridaImine Core-crosslinked Stars for Tunable Degradation and Release
2022FallMcKenna HansonUniversity of MinnesotaUnderstanding the Effects of Cationic Type and Architecture of Antisense Oligonucleotide Delivery
2022FallJulie RielandUniversity of MichiganSticky Situation:  Pressure Sensitive Adhesives Applied in the Capture of Aqueous Microplastics
2022FallThivani SenathirajaIowa State UniversityCreating Multiblock Ionomer Structures via Salt Complexation in Solvent Systems
2022SpringAmalie AtassiGeorgia Institute of TechnologyThermal conductivity is independent of topochemical polymerization in organic materials
2022SpringRachel DetwilerUniversity of UtahDevelopment in transition metal catalyzed N-carboxyanhydride polymerization: Preparation of polyproline materials
2022SpringKristin LewisUniv of Colorado, BoulderSubcritical Phase Transitions in Supramolecular Liquid Crystalline Elastomers
2022SpringAni NazariArizona State UniversityHydrophobic Polymers with Various Ion Exchange Capacities for Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide
2019FallAbigail DelawderWashington University of Saint LouisSynthesis, self-assembly, and photomechanical gel actuator performance of a sequence-defined polyviologen crosslinker
2019FallStephanie AguilarUCLAElectrostatically varied grafted copolymers for enhancing multivalent ion rejection for nanofiltration
2019SpringBonnie BussColorado State UniversityOrganocatalyzed atom transfer radical polymerization in continuous photo-flow reactors
2019SpringMeghan LammUniversity of South CarolinaPlant oil-derived emulsion polymers with post-polymerization induced mechanical enhancement
2018FallJulia PribylUniversity of South CarolinaPoly(4-vinylpyridine) grafted polyHIPE foams for high performance plutonium separations
2018FallSamuel LeguizamonUniversity of MichiganSelective, information-directed dynamic covalent assembly of sequence-specific peptoids
2018SpringSymone Cook-AlexanderCase Western Reserve UniversityMolecular gel composites: From solution to solid-state reversibility
2018SpringJennifer ImbrognoUniversity of Texas at AustinStructure-kinetic relationships for mono(μ-oxo)-dialuminum initiators for epoxide polymerization