Dear Col­leagues,
 
On behalf of the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia Offi­cers, I would like to wel­come you to our events for the 2014–15 sea­son. Fol­low­ing our tra­di­tion, the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia Awardee, Dr. Haiy­ing Chen, will present his work on the first meet­ing of the sea­son on Sep­tem­ber 18th, 2014. The speak­er sched­ule for the 2014–15 sea­son (put togeth­er under the coor­di­na­tion of Dan Slanac of DuPont), along with the spe­cial events, is list­ed below. We hope that you’ll join us and that you’ll enjoy the planned talks. So please mark your calendars. 

The month­ly meet­ings will con­tin­ue to be held at the Dou­ble­tree Hotel on US-202 in Wilm­ing­ton, DE. The cost of the din­ner will remain at $35.00 for mem­bers, $20.00 for students/retirees and will include one drink dur­ing the social hour. The fees for walk-ins and non-mem­bers will be $40.00. In an attempt to facil­i­tate reg­is­tra­tion process we plan to intro­duce cred­it card as an addi­tion­al method of pay­ment. Addi­tion­al details will be announced in one of the forth­com­ing meet­ings. Until then we strong­ly encour­age advance reser­va­tions for the meet­ings either using our online reg­is­tra­tion form in our web­page or by con­tact­ing our arrange­ments chair, Eyas Mah­moud (eyas@​udel.​edu), direct­ly. Dues for the 2014–15 sea­son will remain at $25.00 ($5.00 for the local club and $20.00 to the nation­al club). Dues for stu­dents, post­docs and retirees will be $10.00 ($5.00 for the local club and $5.00 to the nation­al club).

Our annu­al stu­dent poster com­pe­ti­tion (orga­nized by Bingjun Xu of Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware) will again be held in Octo­ber. It pro­vides an impor­tant forum for local stu­dents to dis­sem­i­nate their work and inter­act with fel­low sci­en­tists from indus­try and acad­e­mia. Fur­ther­more, select­ed stu­dents from local uni­ver­si­ties will also be giv­en the oppor­tu­ni­ty to brief pre­sen­ta­tion of their work at cer­tain meetings.

Feel free to con­tact me or any oth­er offi­cers with any com­ments or con­cerns, and keep check­ing peri­od­i­cal­ly our web­site (www​.catal​y​sis​clubphilly​.org) and our LinkedIn account for news or updates.
I’m look­ing for­ward to see­ing all of you in September.
 
Best regards,
 
Vlad Niko­lakis
Chair
vlad@​udel.​edu
C: 302–9818331; O: 302–8316204

This is the first call for posters for the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadelphia’s annu­al Stu­dent Poster Con­test to be held Thurs­day, Octo­ber 16th, 2014 at the Dou­ble Tree Hotel, 4727 Con­cord Pike (Rt. 202) in Wilm­ing­ton, DE. To enter, please sub­mit a short abstract of your pro­posed entry before Sep­tem­ber 28th, 2014, to Bingjun Xu at bxu@​udel.​edu.

The com­pe­ti­tion is restrict­ed to grad­u­ate stu­dents only. 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. As in past years Catal­y­sis Club mem­bers and guests will cast their votes for favorite poster and a pan­el of indus­tri­al judges will select the 5 best posters from the top 10 posters. Total prizes 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 one over­all win­ner will be invit­ed to present his or her work at the annu­al Catal­y­sis Club sym­po­sium in Spring 2014.

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. View the offi­cial announce­ment here.

Each year the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia rec­og­nizes an out­stand­ing mem­ber of the catal­y­sis com­mu­ni­ty, who has made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to the advance­ment of Catal­y­sis. Such advance­ment can be sci­en­tif­ic, tech­no­log­i­cal, or in orga­ni­za­tion lead­er­ship. The Award con­sists of a plaque and a $1,000 cash prize. 

We appre­ci­ate your help in sub­mit­ting nom­i­na­tions. The entire nom­i­na­tion pack­age, includ­ing a resume and rec­om­men­da­tion let­ters, should not be more than 10 pages and should include a ½ page ten­ta­tive award announce­ment. The dead­line for the receipt of nom­i­na­tions is April 11, 2013. Pri­or nom­i­na­tion pack­ages sent in 2012 or lat­er will auto­mat­i­cal­ly be con­sid­ered for the 2014 Award. 

Nom­i­na­tion let­ters along with sup­port­ing mate­ri­als should be emailed to bjorn.​moden@​pqcorp.​com.
 
Bjorn Mod­en
Zeolyst International
280 Cedar Grove Rd
Con­shohock­en, PA 19428
(610) 651‑4679
 
Pre­vi­ous Win­ners of the Award

Spon­sored by UOP and the Catal­y­sis Club of Chicago
 
The Catal­y­sis Club of Chica­go is solic­it­ing nom­i­na­tions for the Her­man Pines Award for out­stand­ing research in the field of catal­y­sis. Her­man Pines was an out­stand­ing research sci­en­tist, and his work rev­o­lu­tion­ized the gen­er­al under­stand­ing of organ­ic chem­istry, par­tic­u­lar­ly the chem­istry of hydro­car­bons inter­act­ing with strong acids. The Award in his hon­or is co-spon­sored by UOP, where Her­man Pines began his indus­tri­al career in 1930 and amassed 145 US patents, and by the Catal­y­sis Club of Chica­go of which Her­man Pines was a found­ing member.

The Award will be pre­sent­ed at the 2014 Catal­y­sis Club of Chica­go Spring Sym­po­sium and con­sists of a plaque, a cash award of $1,000 and reim­burse­ment for trav­el and lodg­ing as a ple­nary speak­er at the Spring Symposium.

The nom­i­nee must meet the fol­low­ing criteria:

• Great achieve­ments of catal­y­sis research in the past five years.
• For the year of 2014, the award will be giv­en to an indus­tri­al researcher.
• Active mem­ber in catal­y­sis community.
• A res­i­dent of North America.

Dead­line for nom­i­na­tion is Jan­u­ary 31, 2014. Nom­i­na­tion should describe the spe­cif­ic work for which the nom­i­nee should be rec­og­nized. Com­plete cur­ricu­lum vitae with let­ters of sup­port for the nom­i­nee must be includ­ed in the nom­i­na­tion, togeth­er with the descrip­tion of work. Let­ters of nom­i­na­tion and sup­port­ing doc­u­men­ta­tion must be sent by Jan­u­ary 31, 2014 as a sin­gle PDF doc­u­ment to:
 
Neng Guo
Pres­i­dent – The Catal­y­sis Club of Chica­go (2013–2014)
BP Prod­ucts North Amer­i­ca Inc.
Naperville, IL 60565
neng.​guo@​bp.​com
 
List of past award recip­i­ents of the Her­man Pines Award:

• 1999 Prof. Harold Kung – North­west­ern University
• 2000 Dr. John Mon­nier – East­man Chem­i­cal Company
• 2001 Prof. Lan­ny Schmidt – Uni­ver­si­ty of Minnesota
• 2002 Dr. James Brazdil – BP
• 2003 Prof. James Dumesic – Uni­ver­si­ty of Wisconsin
• 2004 Dr. Alak Bhat­tacharyya – BP
• 2005 Prof. Israel Wachs – Lehigh University
• 2006 Dr. Jeff Miller – BP
• 2007 Prof. Chun­shan Song – Penn­syl­va­nia State University
• 2008 Dr. Alek­sey Yez­erets – Cum­mins Inc.
• 2009 Prof. Tobin Marks – North­west­ern University
• 2010 Dr. James Rekoske – UOP
• 2011 Prof. Jing­guang Chen – Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
• 2012 Dr. Stu­art Soled — ExxonMobil
• 2013 Prof. W. Nicholas Del­gass – Pur­due University

Dear Col­leagues,
 
On behalf of the orga­niz­ing com­mit­tee, I would like to wel­come you to join us for the 65th sea­son of the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia. We are proud to con­tin­ue the lega­cy set forth by the orig­i­nal 7 sci­en­tists who estab­lished this club in 1949 of hold­ing meet­ings to stim­u­late dis­cus­sions among the aca­d­e­m­ic and indus­tri­al catal­y­sis sci­en­tists in the greater Philadel­phia area. We hope that you will join us by attend­ing the broad range of talks that have been arranged for this season. 

We are excit­ed to announce the speak­er line­up for our month­ly meet­ings that has been coor­di­nat­ed by Tor­ren Carl­son of DuPont. Fol­low­ing our tra­di­tion, the first meet­ing of the sea­son will be giv­en by the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia Awardee, Daniel Resas­co of Uni­ver­si­ty of Okla­homa, present his work on Sep­tem­ber 19th, 2013. Below is the speak­er sched­ule for the 2013–14 sea­son along with the spe­cial events that will occur through­out the year. 

Our annu­al stu­dent poster com­pe­ti­tion will take place in Octo­ber and will be coor­di­nat­ed by Ale­jan­dra Rivas-Car­dona of John­son Matthey. The poster ses­sion pro­vides a great oppor­tu­ni­ty for local grad­u­ate stu­dents to present their work to a broad catal­y­sis audi­ence and for com­pa­nies to look for poten­tial can­di­dates. The nom­i­na­tions of CCP offi­cers for the 2014–15 sea­son will take place in Feb­ru­ary with elec­tions sched­uled for April. Vladimiros Niko­lakis of Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware will orga­nize the CCP Spring Sym­po­sium in May 2014. We will also con­tin­ue the tra­di­tion of hav­ing brief pre­sen­ta­tions by a local grad­u­ate stu­dent pri­or to the main lec­ture at some of the month­ly meetings. 

The month­ly meet­ings will con­tin­ue to be held at the Dou­ble­tree Hotel on US-202 in Wilm­ing­ton, DE. The cost of the din­ner will remain at $35.00 for mem­bers, $20.00 for students/retirees and will include one drink dur­ing the social hour. The fees for walk-ins and non-mem­bers will be $40.00. We strong­ly encour­age advance reser­va­tions for the meet­ings. Dues for the 2013–14 sea­son will remain at $25.00 ($5.00 for the local club and $20.00 to the nation­al club). Dues for stu­dents, post­docs and retirees will be $15.00 ($5.00 for the local club and $10.00 to the nation­al club). 

You can receive our lat­est infor­ma­tion and news through our web­site at catal​y​sis​clubphilly​.org, through LinkedIn, and also Face­book. While you can still work with your com­pa­ny rep­re­sen­ta­tive, we would like to strong­ly encour­age you to try our online reg­is­tra­tion form or con­tact our arrange­ments chair, Jacob Wein­er, directly. 

If you would like to receive our month­ly announce­ments or need to update your con­tact infor­ma­tion, please con­tact our Mem­ber­ship Direc­tor, Yaritza Lopez of John­son Matthey (lopezym@​jmusa.​com).

The strength of our club has always revolved around our gen­er­ous indus­tri­al spon­sors and mem­bers of our month­ly meet­ings. Please con­tin­ue to sup­port CCP by attend­ing the meet­ings and by invit­ing your col­leagues. I am look­ing for­ward to see­ing you all on Sep­tem­ber 19 to start off anoth­er great sea­son. Please also feel free to con­tact me or the oth­er offi­cers through­out the sea­son with any com­ments or sug­ges­tions for how we can improve the club.
 
Best regards,
 
Carl Men­ning
Chair
302–695-3289
Carl.​A.​Menning@​usa.​dupont.​com