2021 Fall – Julia Kornfield “Polymers and nanocomposites to treat vascular disease without a trace.”
2021 Spring – Timothy D. Lodge, Carnegie Mellon University. “Pillars of Polymer Science: A Perspective”
2020 Fall – Jeffrey Moore, University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign. “Materials Functions for Polymer Lifecycle Control.”
2020 Spring – Timothy D. Lodge, Carnegie Mellon University. “Pillars of Polymer Science: A Perspective” (Delayed to 2021)
2019 Fall – Benny Freeman, “Ion solubility, diffusivity, and transport in charged polymer membranes”
2019 Spring – Craig J. Hawker, “Power of polymer synthesis: Translation of basic materials research into social benefits”
2018 Fall – Timothy Bunning, “Translating polymer science and engineering into practice: Air Force Materials Science and Technology”
2018 Spring – Zhenan Bao, Stanford University; “Skin-inspired polymer electronic materials and decides”
2017 Fall – Frank S. Bates, University of Minnesota; “Frontiers in Polymer Science & Engineering
2017 Spring – Juan De Pablo, University of Chicago; “Directed Assembly of Hierarchical Polymeric materials”
2016 Fall – Dr. Christopher Bowman, University of Colorado; “Smart polymer materials by design: Creating and implementing smart polymers with latent chemical functionality”
2016 Spring – Edmund Carnahan, The Dow Chemical Company; “Innovation in a mature field: The commercialization of olefin block copolymers”
2015 Fall – Dr. Stephen Cheng, The University of Akron; “Polymers for optical technologies utilizing linear susceptibility”
2015 Spring – Karen Wooley, Texas A&M University; “A Celebration of the Award Winners”
2014 Fall – James L. Hedrick, IBM Research; “Organocatalytic Routes to Advanced Materials: From Semiconductors, Green Chemistry to Nanomedicine”
2014 Spring – Joseph DeSimone, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University; “Convergent Thinking to Drive New Approaches to Manufacturing”
2013 Fall – Barry Farmer, Air Force Research Laboratory; “Polymers in Aviation: Past, Present, and Future”
2013 Spring – Larry Wendling, 3M; “3M Technologies and Applications Related to Energy Market Opportunities”
2012 Fall – Paula Hammond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; “Macromolecular Assembly for Novel Biomaterials Micropharmacies and Delivery Platforms”
2012 Spring – David Tirrell, California Institute of Technology; “Reinterpreting of Genetic Code”
2011 Fall – James McGrath, Virginia Tech; “Contributions of Polymer Science and Resurgent U.S. Chemical Industry to the Chemistry of Air, Space, and Water”
2011 Spring – Anthony Sinskey, MIT; “Polyhydroxyalkanoates: Past Present, and Future”
2010 Fall – David Mooney, Harvard University; “Materials to Program Cells In Situ”
2010 Spring – Paul Bloom, Archer Daniels Midland Co.; “Opportunities for Renewable Chemicals: Impact and Needs”