Support for Attendees to the 2010 Gordon Conference on Catalysis

We are pleased to announce that par­tial reg­is­tra­tion sup­port ($400), which will cov­er 50% of the reg­is­tra­tion fee, will be avail­able for grad­u­ate stu­dents, post-docs and ear­ly career fac­ul­ty. Approx­i­mate­ly 40–50 par­tic­i­pants will receive sup­port depend­ing on avail­able fund­ing. This sup­port is made pos­si­ble by grants from the Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion- Catal­y­sis and Kinet­ics Pro­gram, Depart­ment of Ener­gy — Office of Sci­ence, the North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety, and indus­try con­trib­u­tors (see the GRC web­site for an updat­ed list as this sup­port becomes avail­able).

Request for sup­port should be sent by apply­ing to the con­fer­ence chair via email to datye@​unm.​edu and by ensur­ing that the fol­low­ing text appears in the sub­ject head­ing of your email GRC 2010 Catal­y­sis. Please sub­mit your appli­ca­tion before March 31, 2010, and include as an attach­ment one pdf doc­u­ment that includes a short one page CV, a state­ment of your research inter­ests, and one page let­ter of endorse­ment from your research advi­sor (for stu­dents and post-docs) or one page let­ter of cur­rent and pend­ing sup­port (in case of junior fac­ul­ty). Sup­port will be allo­cat­ed to one stu­dent or post-doc per research group (unless addi­tion­al sup­port becomes avail­able) and to junior fac­ul­ty who are at the ear­ly career stage (with min­i­mal extra­mur­al fund­ing). The par­tic­i­pants who receive sup­port are required to present a poster at the meet­ing. Fur­ther infor­ma­tion on the con­fer­ence and trav­el sup­port can be obtained from Prof. Datye’s web site: http://www.unm.edu/~cmem/labs/catalysis/index.html.

To attend the GRC, you must apply via the fol­low­ing web site: http://​www​.grc​.org/​p​r​o​g​r​a​m​s​.​a​s​p​x​?​y​e​a​r​=​2​0​1​0​&​p​r​o​g​r​a​m​=​c​a​t​a​l​y​sis.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion, please con­tact the con­fer­ence orga­niz­ers:

Abhaya K. Datye, Chair
Dis­tin­guished Pro­fes­sor
Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mex­i­co
Albu­querque, NM, 87131–0001
505–277-0477
datye@​unm.​edu

Bruce Cook, Vice–Chair
Advanced Refin­ing Man­ag­er
BP Prod­ucts N.A.
Naperville, IL, 60563–8460
630–420-3833
Bruce.​Cook2@​bp.​com

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.

Nominations Open for Award for Excellence in Natural Gas Conversion

Dead­line is Novem­ber 1, 2009

The Award for Excel­lence in Nat­ur­al Gas Con­ver­sion is spon­sored by the Nat­ur­al Gas Con­ver­sion Board and its Inter­na­tion­al Sci­en­tif­ic Advi­so­ry Com­mit­tee. The award has been pre­sent­ed just 5 times in the past twen­ty years, and rec­og­nizes indi­vid­u­als who — in the eyes of their peers — have made note­wor­thy con­tri­bu­tions in the field of nat­ur­al gas con­ver­sion and the devel­op­ment of tech­nolo­gies that are like­ly to play an impor­tant part in meet­ing the world’s chem­i­cal and fuel require­ments in the years ahead.

Please vis­it the award web page at ngbc​.kma​.net/​i​n​d​e​x​.​a​s​p​?​s​i​d​=54 for addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion and the nom­i­na­tion process.

Job Search Strategies Workshop for Chemical Professionals

The Philadel­phia Sec­tion of the Amer­i­can Chem­i­cal Soci­ety is offer­ing a Job Search Strate­gies Work­shop for chem­i­cal sci­en­tists enter­ing the job mar­ket and those in tran­si­tion. The work­shop will be held at Ursi­nus Col­lege in Col­legeville, Penn­syl­va­nia on Octo­ber 6th at 6:30 pm.

The work­shop has three com­po­nent pre­sen­ta­tions, each tak­ing about an hour. Plan­ning Your Job Search dis­cuss­es trends in the indus­tri­al mar­ket, artic­u­lat­ing one’s per­son­al moti­va­tors, locat­ing job open­ings and net­work­ing. Prepar­ing a Resume address­es resume prepa­ra­tion from the per­spec­tives of struc­ture, con­tent, for­mat and style; cov­ers let­ters; and oth­er rel­e­vant doc­u­ments. Effec­tive Inter­view­ing cov­ers the inter­view process, behav­ioral-based ques­tions, han­dling dif­fi­cult ques­tions, prepar­ing for inter­views, the research talk, and man­ag­ing job deci­sions.

The empha­sis of this work­shop will be on indus­tri­al employ­ment. How­ev­er, since gov­ern­ment employ­ment offers many career oppor­tu­ni­ties for sci­en­tists, we’ll dis­cuss this top­ic as well.

Down­load fly­er for addi­tion­al details: JobSearchWorkshop.pdf.

Gordon Conference on Catalysis – Program Announcement

The 2010 GRC on Catal­y­sis will be held at Col­by Sawyer Col­lege, NH from June 27, 2010 through July 2, 2010. The meet­ing chair is Abhaya Datye (datye@​unm.​edu) from the Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mex­i­co in Albu­querque, NM and the Vice-chair is Bruce Cook (Bruce.​Cook2@​bp.​com) from BP Prod­ucts NA in Naperville, IL.

In 2010, the Catal­y­sis con­fer­ence will move to a new­ly-fur­bished con­fer­ence room with seat­ing for 150, a new poster ses­sion area that will allow 40 posters per ses­sion. The dorm rooms pro­vide sin­gle and dou­ble accom­mo­da­tions, free WIFI and the reg­is­tra­tion fee includes all meals and the famous lob­ster din­ner on Thurs­day night. After­noons are open to enjoy the New Eng­land ambiance with oppor­tu­ni­ties for hik­ing, sail­ing, golf and ten­nis to cre­ate an out­stand­ing con­fer­ence that will help you net­work with col­leagues, and make long last­ing con­nec­tions. Please vis­it the con­fer­ence web site for more details and to reg­is­ter for the meet­ing: 2010 GRC Pro­gram.

The 2010 GRC on Catal­y­sis will focus on sev­er­al areas that are of both fun­da­men­tal and prac­ti­cal impor­tance, (down­load pro­gram fly­er). The under­ly­ing theme is to high­light the role of catal­y­sis in meet­ing society’s needs for ener­gy and mate­ri­als. The con­fer­ence is orga­nized into 9 ses­sions:

  1. Alter­na­tive Feed­stocks For Chem­i­cals And Fuels
  2. Nov­el Cat­alyt­ic Mate­ri­als
  3. 3D Imag­ing Of Cat­a­lysts
  4. Spec­troscopy, With Spe­cial Empha­sis On Het­ero­ge­neous Catal­y­sis In The Liq­uid Phase
  5. Mol­e­c­u­lar Insights Through The­o­ry
  6. The Sci­ence Of Cat­a­lyst Syn­the­sis
  7. Design Of Cat­a­lysts For Excep­tion­al Sta­bil­i­ty
  8. Sur­face Sci­ence
  9. Future Per­spec­tives On Catal­y­sis

The themes and the speak­ers have been cho­sen to inter­weave aca­d­e­m­ic and indus­tri­al inter­est, as has been the very effec­tive tra­di­tion of this long run­ning con­fer­ence, and to illus­trate broad, fore­front con­cepts in the field of het­ero­ge­neous catal­y­sis. By includ­ing senior sci­en­tists as dis­cus­sion lead­ers, we hope to add a diver­si­ty of per­spec­tive and enhance the lev­el of dis­cus­sions. A spe­cial effort was made to attract speak­ers and dis­cus­sion lead­ers from indus­try. Finan­cial sup­port will be avail­able for grad­u­ate stu­dents, post-docs and junior fac­ul­ty. Please vis­it the NACS web­site in Feb­ru­ary 2010 for more details.

Nominations open for Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Catalysis

The Award for Dis­tin­guished Ser­vice in the Advance­ment of Catal­y­sis is spon­sored by the North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety. It is award­ed bien­ni­al­ly in even num­bered years. The Award con­sists of a plaque, an hon­o­rar­i­um of $5,000, and par­tial sup­port ($1000) for trav­el to the meet­ing where the award is pre­sent­ed. The Award will be pre­sent­ed for the first time at the 2011 North Amer­i­can Meet­ing of the Catal­y­sis Soci­ety.

The Award rec­og­nizes an indi­vid­ual who has advanced cat­alyt­ic chem­istry or engi­neer­ing through a com­bi­na­tion of sig­nif­i­cant ser­vice to the catal­y­sis com­mu­ni­ty and tech­ni­cal accom­plish­ments. Ser­vice may include teach­ing, men­tor­ing, edi­to­r­i­al, and orga­ni­za­tion­al activ­i­ties, as well as lead­er­ship in the orga­ni­za­tion of con­fer­ences and work­shops. These activ­i­ties must have ben­e­fit­ed specif­i­cal­ly the North Amer­i­can catal­y­sis com­mu­ni­ty and more gen­er­al­ly the field at large.

Elec­tion of the awardee will be made with­out regard to age, sex, nation­al­i­ty, or affil­i­a­tion. The nom­i­na­tion must con­tain a crit­i­cal eval­u­a­tion of the sig­nif­i­cance of candidate’s achieve­ments and a spe­cif­ic state­ment about the ser­vice and tech­ni­cal con­tri­bu­tions on which the nom­i­na­tion is based. Nom­i­na­tion doc­u­ments (short sum­ma­ry state­ment of the con­tri­bu­tions (300 words); cur­ricu­lum vitae; one nom­i­nat­ing let­ter and no more than two let­ters of sup­port) must be sent as a sin­gle elec­tron­ic PDF file to the Pres­i­dent of the Soci­ety (Enrique Igle­sia; iglesia@​berkeley.​edu). Nom­i­na­tions for the 2010 Award for Dis­tin­guished Ser­vice will close on Novem­ber 24, 2009. Receipt of the nom­i­na­tion will be acknowl­edged by return email with­in 48 hours.