Dear col­leagues,

The COVID 19 virus is spread­ing rapid­ly in our area. Many com­pa­nies are insti­tut­ing trav­el restric­tions and Uni­ver­si­ties are mov­ing to online course­work reduce the virus trans­mis­sion. With this in mind, the CCP will do our part to reduce the virus spread and focus on the health of our mem­bers by can­cel­ing the March 26, 2020 meet­ing.

We will update you at a lat­er date on the sta­tus of the April 30 month­ly meet­ing, and the May 14 Spring Sym­po­sium in about a month.

In the mean­time, please con­sid­er get­ting more involved in the club with an elect­ed or appoint­ed posi­tion. If so, please email Jacob.​g.​dickinson@​dupont.​com.

Elected/Nominated:

• Chair Elect (3 yr)
• Trea­sur­er
• Direc­tor (three posi­tions avail­able)
• Nation­al Rep­re­sen­ta­tive (4 yr term)

Appointed:

• Arrange­ments chair
• Sec­re­tary
• Pro­gram chair
• Web­mas­ter

Thank you for your con­tin­ued sup­port and stay safe,

Jacob Dick­in­son, PhD

Chair- Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia

Dear Col­leagues,

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 poten­tial impact of the trav­el award to the student’s career goals, finan­cial need and over­all mer­it. (The com­plet­ed appli­ca­tion form should not exceed three pages.)

The appli­ca­tion form is due Feb­ru­ary 14th 2020, and the win­ner will be announced at our Feb­ru­ary 27th meet­ing.

Please send your appli­ca­tions to Jacob Dick­in­son (CCP Chair, jacob.g.@dupont.com).

Best Regards,

Jacob Dick­in­son

2019–2020 CCP Chair