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Catalysis Club of Philadelphia: Winners of the Annual Student Poster Competition

The Catal­y­sis Club of Philadelphia’s Annu­al Stu­dent Poster Com­pe­ti­tion was held March 18th, 2010 with 23 stu­dent entries, and two post-doc­tor­al pre­sen­ters. Four run­ners-up includ­ed, Danielle Hans­gen (Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware) with “Mod­el Based Pre­dic­tion of Bimetal­lic Cat­a­lysts for Hydro­gen Pro­duc­tion from Ammo­nia Decom­po­si­tion”; Eddie Martono (Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia) with “Stud­ies of the active sites on sup­port­ed cobalt cat­a­lysts for the steam reform­ing of ethanol”; Julie Moli­nari (Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty) with “Raman, UV-Vis and IR-ATR Study of Vana­di­um Haloper­ox­i­dase Func­tion­al Mim­ics”; and Bill Lon­er­gan (Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware) with “Struc­ture Prop­er­ty Rela­tion­ships of Sup­port­ed Pt/Ni Bimetal­lic Cat­a­lysts: Cor­re­lat­ing the Extent of Pt-Ni Bimetal­lic Bond For­ma­tion with Low-Tem­per­a­ture Hydro­gena­tion Activ­i­ty”.

Top hon­ors went to Dustin Fick­el from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware, with his poster titled “Cop­per Coor­di­na­tion in Cu-SSZ-13 and Cu-SSZ-16 Inves­ti­gat­ed by Vari­able-Tem­per­a­ture XRD”. Along with top hon­ors, Dustin also received an invi­ta­tion to present his research at the Catal­y­sis Club’s Annu­al Spring Sym­po­sium, May 13th 2010 at Vil­lano­va Uni­ver­si­ty.

Call for Nominations of The 2010 Catalysis Club of Philadelphia Award

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 $1000 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. The dead­line for the receipt of nom­i­na­tions is April 15, 2010. Pri­or nom­i­na­tion pack­ages sent in 2007 or lat­er will auto­mat­i­cal­ly be con­sid­ered for the 2010 Award.

Nom­i­na­tion let­ter along with sup­port­ing mate­ri­als should be emailed to chenh@​jmusa.​com.

Dr. Hai-Ying Chen
John­son Matthey Inc.
436 Devon Park Dri­ve
Wayne, PA 19087
Phone (610) 341‑3441

Pre­vi­ous Win­ners of the Award

  • 2009 Ted Oya­ma
  • 2008 David Olson
  • 2007 John Vohs
  • 2006 James Dumesic
  • 2005 Israel Wachs
  • 2004 Jing­guang Chen
  • 2003 Frank E. Herkes
  • 2002 Steven D. Ittel
  • 2001 Mark Barteau
  • 2000 Hen­ry C. Foley
  • 1999 Anne M. Gaffney
  • 1998 Ray Gorte
  • 1997 Leo E. Manz­er
  • 1996 Mae Rubin
  • 1995 John N. Armor
  • 1994 Theodore A. Koch
  • 1993 George Kerr
  • 1992 Fran Waller
  • 1991 John A. Sofranko
  • 1990 Wern­er O. Haag
  • 1989 Mau­rice Mitchell, Jr.
  • 1988 George Koko­tai­lo
  • 1987 James E. Lyons
  • 1986 Bruce C. Gates
  • 1985 N.Y. Chen
  • 1984 James R. Katzer
  • 1983 Edward Rosin­s­ki
  • 1982 Robert Eis­chens
  • 1981 James F. Roth
  • 1980 Abra­ham Schnei­der
  • 1979 Alvin B. Stiles
  • 1978 George W. Par­shall
  • 1977 G.C.A. Schuit
  • 1976 Heinz Heine­mann
  • 1975 Paul Venu­to
  • 1974 Roland C. Hans­ford
  • 1973 Paul B. Weisz
  • 1972 Alfred E. Hirschler­li
  • 1971 G. Alex Mills
  • 1970 Paul H. Emmett
  • 1969 Charles J. Plank
  • 1968 Adal­bert Farkas

Graduate Student Poster Competition

This is the first call for posters for the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadelphia’s annu­al Stu­dent Poster Con­test to be held Thurs­day, March 18, 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 March 4, 2010 to Eliz­a­beth Ross-Medgaar­den.

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 on May 13, 2010.

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.

Ted Oyama is the winner of the 2009 Catalysis Club of Philadelphia Award

The win­ner of the 2009 Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia Award is Pro­fes­sor Ted Oya­ma from Vir­ginia Poly­tech­nic Insti­tute. Pro­fes­sor Oya­ma is rec­og­nized for his out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tions and lead­er­ship in catal­y­sis research. In his ear­ly work, he made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to our under­stand­ing of cat­alyt­ic reac­tions on met­al car­bides, nitrides and oxides. Pro­fes­sor Oya­ma uses state-of-the-art spec­troscopy meth­ods to obtain infor­ma­tion about catal­y­sis in the work­ing sate. He cur­rent­ly works in three areas: the oxida­tive trans­for­ma­tion of hydro­car­bons to high-val­ue prod­ucts, the devel­op­ment of nov­el cat­a­lysts for the upgrad­ing of petro­le­um resources and the devel­op­ment of mem­branes and mem­brane reac­tors for the selec­tive sep­a­ra­tion of gas­es. The award announce­ment was made at the 2009 Spring Sym­po­sium. Pro­fes­sor Oya­ma will be hon­ored dur­ing his award lec­ture, sched­uled for Sep­tem­ber, with a plaque and a $1000 cash award.

Announcement of the 2009-10 Season of the Catalysis Club of Philadelphia

Dear Col­leagues:

Wel­come to the 61st 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 pro­gram of activ­i­ties for the 2009-10 sea­son that seeks to pro­vide a vari­ety of stim­u­lat­ing and enjoy­able tech­ni­cal pro­grams. We hope that you will join us by reg­is­ter­ing as a mem­ber of the club for the new sea­son and enjoy the pre­sen­ta­tions.

Our tech­ni­cal pro­grams, coor­di­nat­ed by Raul Lobo (Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware), will get off to a strong start with Ted Oya­ma, win­ner of the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia 2009 award join­ing us in Sep­tem­ber. Our annu­al stu­dent poster ses­sion will be coor­di­nat­ed by Eliz­a­beth Ross-Medgaar­den (Lyon­dell­Basell Indus­tries) and held in March. Dion Vla­chos (Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware) will orga­nize the Spring Sym­po­sium in May. As intro­duced in the past cou­ple of years, 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 2009-10 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 com­pa­ny rep­re­sen­ta­tives is avail­able at catal​y​sis​clubphilly​.org/​c​o​m​p​R​e​p​.​php.

The cost of the din­ner will again be $30.00 for mem­bers, $15.00 for students/retirees and will include one drink dur­ing the social hour. Walk-ins and non-mem­bers din­ner fees will be $35.00. We strong­ly encour­age advance reser­va­tions for the meet­ings.

Please vis­it our web­site at catal​y​sis​clubphilly​.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 month­ly meet­ings, a stim­u­lat­ing mix of fel­low­ship with sci­en­tif­ic col­leagues and first rate pre­sen­ta­tions from the finest sci­en­tists in our field; I look for­ward to see­ing you at as many of them as pos­si­ble. Sup­port the club and bring a friend! Final­ly, please do not hes­i­tate to con­tact me, or any of the oth­er offi­cers, through­out the year with any com­ments or sug­ges­tions for the club.

Best regards,

Michael A Smith
Chair
610–519-5968
michael.​a.​smith@​villanova.​edu

2009 Spring Symposium

The Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia 2009 Spring Sym­po­sium will be held on Thurs­day, May 21st at the John M. Clay­ton Hall, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware. Invit­ed speak­ers are:

  • Robert Schlögl, Fritz Haber Insti­tute — Max Planck Soci­ety
  • Allen Bur­ton, Chevron
  • Stu Soled, Exxon-Mobil Research
  • Chris Keily, Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty
  • Mike Ward, New York Uni­ver­si­ty
  • Suljo Lin­ic, Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan

Pro­gram and reg­is­tra­tion infor­ma­tion will be forth­com­ing.

Nominations are open for the 2009 Catalysis Club of Philadelphia Award

Each year the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia rec­og­nizes a per­son, prefer­ably from the Philadel­phia area, who has made an out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tion to the advance­ment of catal­y­sis. Such advance­ment can be sci­en­tif­ic, tech­no­log­i­cal, or in orga­ni­za­tion lead­er­ship. The award goes to an indi­vid­ual; no split Award to two or more per­sons will be giv­en. The Award con­sists of a plaque and a $1000 cash prize.

The entire nom­i­na­tion pack­age, includ­ing a resume and rec­om­men­da­tion let­ters, should not exceed 10 pages. The dead­line for the receipt of nom­i­na­tions is April 10, 2009. Receipt of nom­i­na­tions will be acknowl­edged by email. Pri­or nom­i­na­tion pack­ages sent in 2006 or lat­er will auto­mat­i­cal­ly be con­sid­ered for the 2009 Award.

Nom­i­na­tion let­ters along with sup­port­ing mate­ri­als should be emailed in a sin­gle PDF doc­u­ment to:

Edrick Morales,
Lyon­dell­Basell Indus­tries
3801 West Chester Pike
New­town Square, PA 19073
edrick.​morales@​lyondellbasell.​com
FAX : 610–359-2434
Phone 610–359-2500