Dear Col­leagues,

This is a call for posters for the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadelphia’s annu­al Stu­dent Poster Ses­sion to be held Wednes­day, June 8th, 2022, at the Inn at Vil­lano­va Uni­ver­si­ty, 601 Coun­ty Line Rd, Wayne, PA 19087. To enter, please sub­mit a short abstract using the details pro­vid­ed below:

• E-mail to weijian.​diao@​villanova.​edu
• Sub­ject line: CCP Poster Ses­sion 2021–2022 – 1st author’s name
• Open to under­grad­u­ate, grad­u­ate, and post-doc­tor­al researchers
• Any aspect of catal­y­sis sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy
• Use abstract tem­plate and instruc­tions pro­vid­ed
• Poster – por­trait for­mat, max­i­mum size = 36” x 48”
• Dead­line for abstract: May 27th, 2022

Please click on the fol­low­ing links for the announce­ment and tem­plate. Feel free to for­ward this mes­sage to inter­est­ed stu­dents and post­docs in your group and depart­ment. A reg­is­tra­tion link for all stu­dent pre­sen­ters, mem­bers, and non-mem­bers will be avail­able soon.

Dear CCP sup­port­ers,

Thank you for your con­tin­ued engage­ment and mem­ber­ship through the 2021–2022 sea­son.  Please help us pre­pare for the 2022–2023 sea­son by cast­ing your votes for the new offi­cers.  The vot­ing will close April 4, 2022 at 10 PM.  The results will be announced at the Spring Sym­po­sium.

Mem­bers, please check your email for vot­ing infor­ma­tion.

Offi­cer Biogra­phies

Vot­ing link

Best,

Thomas Yeh CCP Chair

It is my hon­or to announce the 2021 recip­i­ent of the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia Award.  The recip­i­ent has demon­strat­ed sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to the advance­ment of Catal­y­sis. Such advance­ment can be sci­en­tif­ic, tech­no­log­i­cal, or in orga­ni­za­tion­al lead­er­ship.  After a thor­ough review of the nom­i­nees for the award, it is my plea­sure to announce Prof. Alan M. All­geier of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Kansas as the 2021 recip­i­ent of the CCP Award!

Dr. Alan M. All­geier is one of the rare brand of indus­tri­al chemists, who com­bines the intu­itive­ness of an organ­ic chemist, prac­ti­cal prob­lem-solv­ing approach of a chem­i­cal engi­neer, and fun­da­men­tal insights of an ana­lyt­i­cal chemist. Alan is inter­na­tion­al­ly known for his exper­tise in homo­ge­neous and het­ero­ge­neous catal­y­sis, specif­i­cal­ly in the areas of cat­alyt­ic hydro­gena­tions, pal­la­di­um cross-cou­pling catal­y­sis for phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals, con­tin­u­ous pro­cess­ing meth­ods for phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal syn­the­sis and in under­stand­ing com­plex cat­a­lyst deac­ti­va­tion phe­nom­e­na. His long-stand­ing con­tri­bu­tions to the devel­op­ment and deploy­ment of indus­tri­al homo­ge­neous and het­ero­ge­neous cat­a­lysts for organ­ic syn­the­sis; his lead­er­ship in process design and devel­op­ment in chem­i­cal and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal indus­tries; his sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to cat­a­lyst char­ac­ter­i­za­tions and reac­tion mech­a­nisms by deploy­ing state-of-the-art ana­lyt­i­cal tools and tech­niques, and his untir­ing ser­vice and com­mit­ment to the catal­y­sis com­mu­ni­ty make him an excel­lent and unique can­di­date for this award. But, per­haps, more impor­tant­ly, he has had a great pos­i­tive influ­ence on the lives and pro­fes­sion­al careers of many, many sci­en­tists and engi­neers – and this impact will prob­a­bly endure for years to come.

Please join me in con­grat­u­lat­ing Prof. All­geier for this award.

Parag Shah

Past-Chair Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia

Dear Friends,

We would like to thank all the Poster Ses­sion par­tic­i­pants for shar­ing their work with the CCP com­mu­ni­ty. The fol­low­ing table lists the win­ners of the com­pe­ti­tion por­tion of the event. Fol­low this link to see the full pro­gram for the 2020–2021 CCP vir­tu­al poster com­pe­ti­tion held on Feb­ru­ary 4, 2021.

We would also like to thank the judges for help­ing us with eval­u­at­ing the poster sub­mis­sions.  

Best Regards,
Xinyu Mao
Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia Sec­re­tary