Dear Friends,

The Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia (CCP) is tak­ing appli­ca­tions for the Theodore A. Koch Trav­el Award.

The award is spon­sored in mem­o­ry of T.A. Koch in order to rec­og­nize and reward grad­u­ate stu­dent achieve­ments in catal­y­sis research. T.A. Koch (1925–2014) was a chemist who worked at DuPont, and spent his entire career devel­op­ing chem­i­cal process­es and bring­ing them from the bench­top to com­mer­cial­iza­tion with marked cre­ativ­i­ty and tenac­i­ty. The award will pro­vide finan­cial sup­port to a grad­u­ate stu­dent up to the amount of $1000 to attend a con­fer­ence of his or her choice. The amount can be used to cov­er reg­is­tra­tion fees and/or trav­el expens­es.

Eli­gi­bil­i­ty: Grad­u­ate stu­dents that are mem­bers of the CCP and have paid the annu­al dues ($10). Selec­tion will be based on the poten­tial impact of the trav­el award on the student’s career goals, finan­cial need, and over­all mer­it.

The appli­ca­tion form (see link below) is due Feb­ru­ary 17th, 2020, and the win­ner will be announced at our Feb­ru­ary 27th meet­ing.

Please send appli­ca­tions to Parag Shah (parag.​shah@​pqcorp.​com)

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Regards,

Parag Shah

2020–2021 Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia Chair

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 orga­ni­za­tion­al 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 9, 2021. Pri­or nom­i­na­tion pack­ages sent in 2019 or lat­er will auto­mat­i­cal­ly be con­sid­ered for the 2021 Award.

Nom­i­na­tion let­ters along with sup­port­ing mate­ri­als should be emailed to jacob.​g.​dickinson@​dupont.​com.

Jacob Dick­in­son

DuPont

1150 Allen Dr

Troy, MI 48083

(734) 905‑0041

Dear col­leagues,

We want to let you know about a new online com­mu­ni­ty for the inter­na­tion­al catal­y­sis and reac­tion engi­neer­ing (CRE) com­mu­ni­ty: @CAT. @CAT aims to include every­one who iden­ti­fies as part of the CRE com­mu­ni­ty, includ­ing but not lim­it­ed to homo­ge­neous and het­ero­ge­neous catal­y­sis, elec­tro­chem­istry, sur­face sci­ence, bio­catal­y­sis, the­o­ry, com­pu­ta­tion, and exper­i­men­tal areas. Mem­bers from indus­try, gov­ern­ment, acad­e­mia, non-prof­it and oth­er orga­ni­za­tions, as well as all stages of career are wel­come. You can join the @CAT com­mu­ni­ty at https://​dis​cord​.gg/​E​2​s​j​d​y​R​XBz.

@CAT is host­ed by Dis­cord, and it is like a com­bi­na­tion of chat and video con­fer­enc­ing with chan­nels for var­i­ous top­ics that we may want to inter­act on.

We look for­ward to inter­act­ing with you there!

Best wish­es,

Omar Abdel­rah­man and John Kitchin

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Dear Catal­y­sis Com­mu­ni­ty,

Dur­ing these very uncer­tain times, we remain focused on our objec­tive to find the best way to bring our com­mu­ni­ty safe­ly togeth­er for a suc­cess­ful con­fer­ence.  As we con­tin­ue to mon­i­tor the evolv­ing glob­al sit­u­a­tion, it has become clear an in-per­son con­fer­ence in May 2021 will not be pos­si­ble in the for­mat we know to be for an effec­tive meet­ing.  Work­ing close­ly with our venue, we have agreed to post­pone the con­fer­ence one year to May 22–27, 2022. 

We believe this path will enable us to bring the com­mu­ni­ty togeth­er once again for an in-per­son con­fer­ence allow­ing for the valu­able inter­ac­tions and dis­cus­sions we are used to. In the com­ing weeks, we will con­tin­ue to update our web­site and com­mu­ni­cate any addi­tion­al rel­e­vant details.

We wish every­one a safe and Hap­py Thanks­giv­ing.

With regards,

The Orga­niz­ing Com­mit­tee of the 27^th North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety Meet­ing

NAM27 Loca­tion
New York Hilton Mid­town
1335 6th Ave
New York, NY 10019

Hotel Accom­mo­da­tions
Hous­ing will be avail­able at a dis­count­ed rate at the New York Hilton Mid­town.  Reser­va­tion infor­ma­tion will be pro­vid­ed soon.