Graduate Student Poster Competition
Call for Abstracts
CCP - 23 August 2010
This is the first call for posters for the Catalysis Club of Philadelphia’s annual Student Poster Contest to be held Thursday, October 21, 2010 at the Wilmington Holiday Inn, Naamans Rd and I-95 at 5 PM.
To enter, please submit a short abstract of your proposed entry before October 7, 2010 to Elizabeth Ross-Medgaarden (elizabeth.ross-medgaarden@lyondellbasell.com)
The competition is restricted to graduate students. Post-docs are welcome to present their posters but are not eligible for prizes. All poster presenters should be listed as the first author, and will be guests of the Catalysis Club for the evening. Catalysis Club members and guests will cast their votes for favorite poster; then a select panel of industrial judges will select the 5 best posters from the top 10 posters. A total prize award of $550 will be distributed between the winners; $150 will go to the overall winner and $100 each to the 4 other winners. The overall winner will be invited to present his or her work at the Catalysis Club’s annual symposium in May 2011.
The Catalysis Club of Philadelphia is very proud of this event and views it as one of the region’s premier opportunities for graduate students to showcase their work with the local chemical industry professionals. All graduate students whose work is either directly or indirectly related to catalysis science and technology are encouraged to submit entries.
Announcement of the 2010-11 Season of the Catalysis Club of Philadelphia
CCP - 17 August 2010
Dear Colleagues:
Welcome to the new season of the Catalysis Club of Philadelphia. Since the club was founded in 1949, we continue the tradition of holding regular meetings to stimulate discussions among our fellow catalysis scientists. Your officers, listed on the left, have assembled a stimulating program of activities for the 2010-11 season. We hope that you will join us by registering as a member of the club for the new season and enjoy our monthly technical program.
Our technical programs, coordinated by Bob Cochran will start with Dr. Chuck Coe, previously at AirProducts and currently at Villanova University, winner of the Catalysis Club of Philadelphia 2009-10 award in September. Dr. Coe was recognized for his outstanding contribution to adsorption science, catalysis, and applications of catalysts for organic syntheses. The Award was announced at the 2010 Spring Symposium.
Our annual student poster session will be coordinated by Elizabeth Ross-Megaarden (LyondellBasell Industries) and held in March. Joe Fedeyko of Johnson Matthey will organize the Spring Symposium in October. We will continue to have a brief presentation by a local graduate student or post-doc prior to the main lecture at some of the monthly meetings.
Dues for the new season will remain at $10.00 ($5.00 for the local club and $5.00 to the national club). Dues for students will be $6.00. You can pay your dues to your company representative, to our treasurer (Steve Harris), or at the monthly meetings. A list of representatives is available at catalysisclubphilly.org/compRep.php.
The cost of the dinner will be $35.00 for members, $20.00 for students/retirees and will include one drink during the social hour. Walk-ins and non-members dinner fees will be $40.00. We strongly encourage advance reservations for the meetings.
Please visit our website at catalysisclubphilly.org to receive latest information on monthly meetings. If you would like to receive our monthly announcements or need to update your contact information, please contact our Membership Director, Wei Huang (Air Liquide) at wei.huang@airliquide.com.
The strength of our club has always revolved around our members and our monthly meetings. Your participation in our monthly meetings is essential to the well being of our club.
I am looking forward to seeing you at our monthly meetings. Do not hesitate to contact us with any comments or suggestions for the club.
Best regards,
Dion G. Vlachos
Chair
302-831-2830
vlachos@udel.edu
Chuck Coe is the recipient of the 2010 Catalysis Club of Philadelphia Award
CCP - 28 May 2010
The catalysis club of Philadelphia is pleased to announce Dr. Chuck Coe as the recipient of the 2010 Catalysis Club of Philadelphia Award, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to adsorption science, catalysis, and applications of catalysts for organic syntheses.
Chuck joined the Chemical Additives division of Air Products and Chemicals after he obtained his PhD in inorganic chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University. While at Air Products, Chuck developed a commercial catalyst for accelerating the cure of polyester sheet molded plastics. This product is still being sold some 30 years later. Early in Chuck’s career, he transferred to the Corporate research group at the Company headquarters and developed an extensive expertise in molecular sieve science, allowing him to contribute to a number of important successful commercially improved products and process offerings.
