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.

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

Fall 2022

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Spring 2022

Amalie Atassi (Georgia Institute of Technology) – “Thermal conductivity is independent of topochemical polymerization in organic materials”
Advisor: Prof. Natalie Stingelin

Rachel Detwiler (University of Utah) – “Development in transition metal catalyzed N-carboxyanhydride polymerization: Preparation of polyproline materials”
Advisor: Prof. Jessica Kramer (jessica.kramer@utah.edu)

Kristin Lewis (Univ of Colorado, Boulder) – “Subcritical Phase Transitions in Supramolecular Liquid Crystalline Elastomers”
Advisor: Prof. Timothy White

Ani Nazari (Arizona State University) – “Hydrophobic Polymers with Various Ion Exchange Capacities for Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide”
Advisor: Prof. Matthew Green

Fall 2019

Abigail Delawder (Washington University of Saint Louis)
Stephanie Aguilar (UCLA)

Spring 2019
Bonnie Buss (Colorado State University)
Meghan Lamm (University of South Carolina)

Fall 2018
Julia Pribyl (University of South Carolina)
Samuel Leguizamon (University of Michigan)

Spring 2018
Symone Cook-Alexander (Case Western Reserve University)
Jennifer Imbrogno (University of Texas at Austin)