
2022. 08. 22-23
ACS Fall 2022Chicago, Illinois
2022 CME NASA Symposium
Sponsored by I&EC: Chemistry for
Sustainable Human Space Exploration




Chicago, Illinois
Mon 8/22
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Morning & Afternoon Sessions
Tue 8/23
8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Morning Session
Only for registrants of the ACS Fall 2022 at ACS.org
This two-day symposium is organized by CME and NASA with the principal sponsorship of the ACS Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (I&EC). This symposium is part of the five-day ACS Fall 2022 Meeting at the Chicago McCormick Convention Center. Typical pre-COVID attendance of national meetings was more than 15,000. Over 2,800 STEM professionals and students have attended past CME NASA Symposiums from 2017 to 2021. The 2020 symposium was cancelled due to COVID and the 2021 event was online due to a COVID surge.
The CME NASA STEM Symposiums focus on bringing together industry, academia, government and the public to enlarge and enhance the global STEM talent pool. It will feature the resiliency of science cutting-edge innovations in the chemical sciences to advance human space travel to the solar system and beyond, and translate them into new knowledge to improve the lives of people and make their dreams a reality. Two days packed with inspirational research, industry, jobs and new STEM career paths.
Co-organized by the Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering (PMSE) Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society with over 150,000 members, and conceived and sponsored exclusively by CME, the original annual ACS Global Outstanding Student and Mentor Awards in Polymer Science and Engineering offers two student cash prizes of $7,500 each. The past selection committee was conformed by the following eminent researches:
Professor Bert Meijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Professor Takuzo Aida, Tokyo University, Japan
Professor LaShanda Korley, University of Delaware, USA
Professor Sarah Heishorn, Stanford University, USA
Dr. Qinghuang Lin, Lam Research, USA
For information on nominations, go to: https://pmsedivision.org/global-outstanding-student-award/
NASA Day
8:00 am - 11:55 am
NASA Research Presentations
Session Chair: James Green, Steve Barnett, Shah Karim
NASA Talks
2:00 pm - 5:55 pm
NASA Research and PMSE Student & Mentor Award Winner Presentations
Session Chairs: Ksenia Takhistova, George Rodriguez
Industry Day
8:00 am - 10:00 am
NASA Industry Morning
James Green, George Rodriguez, Steve Barnett
2022 Symposium Endorsements: Presidential Event (PRES) of 2022 ACS President Angela Wilson. Technical Division Co-Sponsors to be announced. Thank you to the volunteers of Norwich University in Vermont.
Previous Symposium Endorsements: Presidential Event (PRES) of 2021 ACS President H.N. Cheng, 2019 ACS President Bonnie Charpentier, 2020 ACS President Luis Echegoyen and ACS national meeting all-time record of 31 ACS Technical Division Co-Sponsors in 2019: AGFD, AGRO, ANYL, BIOT, BIOL, BMGT, CARB, CATL, CELL, CHAL, CHAS, CHED, CINF, COLL, COMP, ENFL, ENVR, FLUO, GEOC, HIST, INOR, I&EC, MEDI, NUCL, ORGN, PHYS, PMSE, POLY, PROF, SCHB, TOXI