This is the first call for posters for the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadelphia’s annu­al Stu­dent Poster Con­test to be held Thurs­day, Novem­ber 17, 2011 at the Dou­ble­Tree Hotel, 4727 Con­cord Pike (Rt. 202) in Wilm­ing­ton, DE. To enter, please sub­mit a short abstract of your pro­posed entry before Novem­ber 7, 2011 to Michael A. Smith (michael.​a.​smith@​villanova.​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 years past Catal­y­sis Club mem­bers and guests will cast their votes for favorite poster; how­ev­er, this year a select 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 May 2012.

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.

Dear Col­leagues:

The Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia would like to announce the open­ing of our upcom­ing sea­son on Sep­tem­ber 22^nd, 2011 at the Dou­ble­tree Hotel in Wilm­ing­ton, DE. For over 50 years, the Catal­y­sis ClubCatal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia award, Pro­fes­sor Chun­shan Song from Penn State Uni­ver­si­ty. Prof. Song was rec­og­nized at the 2011 Spring Sym­po­sium for his accom­plish­ments to the field of catal­y­sis on sul­fur removal from hydro­car­bon mix­tures and hydro­car­bon con­ver­sion for ener­gy ori­ent­ed process­es. His award sem­i­nar will be titled “Oxy­gen Enhanced Water Gas Shift Over Bimetal­lic Cat­a­lysts for More Effi­cient Hydro­gen Pro­duc­tion”. Our pro­gram will then con­tin­ue on Octo­ber 13^th and will fea­ture Roy Peri­ana from the Scripps Research Insti­tute and in April will fea­ture the Bur­well Award win­ner Johannes Lercher from TU Müchen. Be sure to check our web­site for the full sched­ule in Sep­tem­ber.

Also in Octo­ber, we will hold our annu­al stu­dent poster com­pe­ti­tion, coor­di­nat­ed by Michael Smith of Vil­lano­va Uni­ver­si­ty, an announce­ment will fol­low short­ly with the call for abstracts. As in the past, the poster com­pe­ti­tion will be open to all under­grad­u­ate, grad­u­ate and post-doc­tor­al stud­ies with the top grad­u­ate stu­dent poster speak­ing at the Spring Sym­po­sium.

This year we have already expe­ri­enced two sig­nif­i­cant changes to our month­ly meet­ings. The first is a change in venue. Meet­ings will now be held at the Dou­ble­tree Hotel in Wilm­ing­ton, DE off of US202 North. Direc­tions to the loca­tion are in a sep­a­rate attach­ment and will be pro­vid­ed with each meet­ing noti­fi­ca­tion this year. By mov­ing, we have been able to main­tain our meal costs. 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.

Addi­tion­al­ly, the Nation­al Club has increased stan­dard club dues for this sea­son. For club mem­bers, dues will increase to $25.00 ($5.00 for the local club and $20.00 to the nation­al club). Dues for stu­dents will increase to $10.00 ($5.00 for the local club and $5.00 to the nation­al club). 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 catal​y​sis​clubphilly​.org/​c​o​m​p​R​e​p​.​php.

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 Agnes Kovacs, DERECSA@​airproducts.​com, or your com­pa­ny rep­re­sen­ta­tive.

The strength of our club has always revolved around our mem­bers and our month­ly meet­ings. Your par­tic­i­pa­tion in our month­ly meet­ings is essen­tial, so I hope to see you all there on Sep­tem­ber 22^nd to kick off anoth­er great year.

Sin­cere­ly,
 
Joe Fedeyko
Chair
610–341-8218
fedeyjm@​jmusa.​com