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The PMSE Emerging Professionals Symposium features invited oral presentations by honorees who have made significant contributions and shown leadership in their fields within polymer materials science and engineering and are applying to industry and national laboratory positions during that year. Selected Emerging Professionals honorees will each provide a technical talk describing past and ongoin…

As part of PMSE mission, MACRO is supported through both volunteer hours and logistical support wherever possible to help communication polymer chemistry within academics. The following PMSE members were honored with their contribution to teach polymers by being awared the James Flack Norris Award. The James Flack Norris Award is given by the Northeast Section of the American Chemical Society (NE…

Opportunity for up to 20 Graduate Students (PMSE/RUBB/BMGT members) to participate in the 2025 Breakthrough in Polymers (BIP) Forum. PMSE Chair Announces an Exciting New Forum for Industry, Government, and Non-academic organizations – Updated 6/3/25 – PMSE We are excited to invite you to participate in this BIP Forum, held on August 18 (1:30-4:15 pm),… Read More » Opportunities for Up To 20 Gradu…

The 2026 Breakthrough in Polymers (BIP) forum will be convening next summer at the Chicago, IL, ACS Fall Meeting. The forum will take place on August 24th or 25th, 2026, and will include meals and refreshments. The Breakthrough in Polymers (BIP) Forum aims to advance professional development of early career polymer scientists and engineers and… Read More » 2026 Breakthrough in Polymers (BIP) Forum

A distinguished group of Judges from industry, academia, and government laboratories had the task of determining the winners of the PMSE Best Poster Competitions at the Spring ACS Meeting in San Diego. Congratulations to our winners, who were also recognized at the POLY/PMSE Awards Reception. Graduate Student Best Poster Award Winners JASON M. KRONENFELDStanford UniversityScalable microparticle… …

The 2025 Future Faculty Honorees have been annouced. A symposium highlighting the honorees will be held at the ACS Fall Meeting in Washington DC on August 18-21, 2025. A list of honorees and university affiliations are listed below. PMSE congratulates all winners and looks forward to seeing their presentations in August.

The 2025 PMSE Early Investigators Award Committee selected twenty four members, consisting of professors, government researchers, and industry scientists across the field of polymer science. A symposium highlighting their work will be held at the 2025 Fall ACS National Meeting. The full list from all years can be found at the Early Investigator Symposium page.

The PMSE Division is pleased to announce that David Kitto is the winner of the 2025 Eastman Chemical Student Award in Applied Polymer Science. This award, sponsored by Eastman Chemical Company and administered by the PMSE Division, is given for the best paper presented at the Eastman Chemical Student Award Symposium as part of the… Read More » 2025 Eastman Chemical Student Award in Applied Polyme…

The purpose of the ACS Global Outstanding Graduate Student and Mentor Award is to disseminate globally the latest knowledge of polymer research and to recognize at the ACS National Meeting not just two winning students, one from the USA and one from anywhere in the world, but also their mentors. Sponsored by Chemical Marketing &… Read More » 2025 Awardees for the ACS Global Outstanding Graduate S…

Dear Fellow Members of the PMSE Division, It is an honor and privilege to serve as the 2025 PMSE Division Chair, working alongside five other dedicated PMSE officers to fulfill PMSE’s mission: fostering a global community of scientists and engineers advancing polymeric materials through science and engineering. This year marks the beginning of the next… Read More » Chair Message from Cristina Tho…

Since its inception in 2012, the Journal of Polymer Science Innovation Award recognizes polymer scientists under the age of 40 and celebrates their significant research innovations and achievements in the field. Winners are recognized at a symposium in association with PMSE at the ACS Fall meeting. The editors of the Journal of Polymer Science and… Read More » 2025 Journal of Polymer Science Inno…

The PMSE Graduate Student Travel Award is given to provide partial travel support to women and/or under-represented (African American, Hispanic, or Native American) graduate students to attend and present their research at ACS national meetings in the Division of Polymeric Materials:  Science & Engineering.  PMSE is proud to announce the winners of this award for… Read More » PMSE Graduate Studen…