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Jeffrey Miller has won the 2009 CSNY Award for Excellence in Catalysis

Jef­frey Miller has won the 2009 Award for Excel­lence in Catal­y­sis pre­sent­ed by the Catal­y­sis Soci­ety of Met­ro­pol­i­tan New York.

Miller is being rec­og­nized for his strong con­tri­bu­tions to the field of catal­y­sis. In par­tic­u­lar, his work on impor­tant petro­chem­i­cal process­es con­tributed to the fun­da­men­tal under­stand­ing of met­al cat­a­lysts and enabled the upgrad­ing and con­ver­sion of for­mer waste streams to valu­able chem­i­cals. In his more recent work he pro­mot­ed the use of X-ray absorp­tion spec­tro­scopies to under­stand the cor­re­la­tion of prepa­ra­tion to struc­ture and func­tion of het­ero­ge­neous cat­a­lysts. He hold 48 patents and authored more than 100 peer reviewed pub­li­ca­tion in the field of catal­y­sis.

Miller grad­u­at­ed with a Ph.D. in Inor­gan­ic Chem­istry from Ore­gon State Uni­ver­si­ty in 1980. He joined Amo­co Oil Com­pa­ny (now BP Chem­i­cals) in 1980 where he pro­gressed through var­i­ous lead­er­ship posi­tions in the research orga­ni­za­tion. In June 2008, he joined Argonne Nation­al Lab­o­ra­to­ry where cur­rent­ly holds the posi­tion of Group Leader of the Het­ero­ge­neous Catal­y­sis pro­gram.

The Excel­lence in Catal­y­sis Award lec­ture will take place on May 20th where Miller will also receive a plaque and cash award. For more details, vis­it www​.nyc​sweb​.org.

Results from the 2009 Directors-at-Large Elections

The elec­tion for Direc­tors-at-Large for the NACS was con­clud­ed on Feb­ru­ary 27th, 2009. Four mem­bers from North Amer­i­ca are elect­ed every 4 years by the mem­ber­ship resid­ing in North Amer­i­ca to serve as nation­al rep­re­sen­ta­tives to the Board of Direc­tors. The 4 per­sons receiv­ing the most votes for Direc­tors-at-Large will begin serv­ing imme­di­ate­ly. The new Direc­tors-at-Large are:

  • Jing­guang Chen, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
  • Robert Davis, Uni­ver­si­ty of Vir­ginia
  • Bruce Gates, Uni­ver­si­ty Of Cal­i­for­nia at Davis
  • Stu­art Soled, Exxon Mobil Research and Engi­neer­ing Co.

2009 Spring Symposium of the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York

The 2009 Spring Sym­po­sium of the Catal­y­sis Soci­ety of Met­ro­pol­i­tan New York will be held at the McDon­nell Hall, Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty on Wednes­day, March 18, 2009. Invit­ed speak­ers are:

  • Pro­fes­sor Matthew Neu­rock — Keynote Speak­er, Uni­ver­si­ty of Vir­ginia
  • Pro­fes­sor Dion Vla­chos, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware — Catal­y­sis for decen­tral­ized hydro­gen pro­duc­tion
  • Dr. Ger­ald Koer­mer, BASF Cat­a­lysts LLC — The Mod­ern Tool Box for Cat­a­lyst Dis­cov­ery

The NYCS is encour­ag­ing stu­dent par­tic­i­pa­tion by reim­burs­ing reg­is­tra­tion fees. To take advan­tage stu­dents must mail-in the advance reg­is­tra­tion with fee. Stu­dents must be present at the meet­ing to receive the reim­burse­ment and some form of stu­dent ID may also be required.

Down­load () the advance reg­is­tra­tion and mail with pay­ment by Wednes­day, March 11, 2009 to:

Jan Koe­gler
LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY, A CB&I COMPANY
1515 Broad Street Bloom­field, NJ 07003 jkoegler@​cbi.​com

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

2009 Graduate Student Poster Competition

The Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia annu­al Stu­dent Poster Com­pe­ti­tion will be held Thurs­day, March 19, 2009 at the Wilm­ing­ton Hol­i­day Inn, Naa­mans Rd and I-95. To enter, please sub­mit a short abstract of your pro­posed entry before March 2, 2008 to: Joseph Fedeyko (fedeyjm@​jmusa.​com).

The com­pe­ti­tion is restrict­ed to grad­u­ate stu­dents only. Post-docs and senior under­grad­u­ates 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 (i.e. dinner’s on us). The five best posters will be cho­sen with one over­all win­ner who will be invit­ed to present his or her work at the annu­al Catal­y­sis Club sym­po­sium on May 21, 2009.

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.

2008 NECZA Meeting: First Call for Papers

Dear NECZA mem­bers and friends,

The hol­i­day sea­son is around the cor­ner, and so is our annu­al NECZA meet­ing. It is my hon­or to orga­nize the 2008 pro­gram along with Travis Hol­man, David Olson, Ned Cor­co­ran, Long Pan, and Chris Cahill. As before, David Olson has reserved the same meet­ing room, Lynch hall, at the Chem­istry Depart­ment of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia for Fri­day, Decem­ber 12, 2008. Thus, we can still meet fol­low­ing the tra­di­tions devel­oped dur­ing the past years, thanks to David. We look for­ward to excit­ing talks and posters with vig­or­ous dis­cus­sions.

We are invit­ing talks and posters on all facets of zeo­lite sci­ence. Any­one is enti­tled to present a lec­ture or poster. We reserve the right to lim­it the num­ber of pre­sen­ta­tions or to shift lec­tures and posters, to opti­mize bal­ance among var­i­ous sub­jects in our field. If you wish to present a paper or a poster, please send an Abstract to haiming.​liu@​arkema.​com no lat­er than Novem­ber 21, 2008. Please spec­i­fy your pref­er­ence (presentation/poster) in the sub­mis­sion and the name of the pre­sen­ter. When sub­mit­ting the Abstract, please include files using both MicroSoft Word (doc) and Adobe Acro­bat (PDF) for­mats.

Down­load gen­er­al infor­ma­tion and first call for papers for the 2008 NECZA meet­ing: .

Thanks. We are look­ing for­ward to your con­tri­bu­tion and a great meet­ing!

Haim­ing Liu
Pro­gram Chair
NECZA 2008
Arke­ma Inc.
900 First Avenue
King of Prus­sia, PA 19406
Email: haiming.​liu@​arkema.​com
Tel: 610–878-6313
Fax: 610–878-6196

K. Travis Hol­man
Pro­gram Co-Chair