2022 CME NASA Symposium

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. Over 2,800 STEM professionals and students have attended past CME NASA Symposiums from 2017 to 2021.

A separate free meeting is the CME NASA Sustainability Symposium to be held at UChicago.

The CME NASA STEM Events focus on bringing together industry, academia, government and the public to enlarge and enhance the global STEM talent pool. Events will feature the sustainability of 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.

8/22

Symposium – ACS McCormick Place West – Room W190a
To attend the Symposium, you must also register at ACS.org
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM NASA Session
2:00 PM – 5:55 PM NASA Session and CME PMSE Student & Mentor Award talks

8/23

(AM) Symposium – ACS McCormick Place West – Room W190a
To attend the Symposium, you must also register at ACS.org
8:00 AM – 12 PM – CME Panels, Keynote, and Lectures
12:00 – 10:00 PM – CME Shuttle Bus Transportation from McCormick West to Rubenstein Forum. Roundtrip may vary from 30 to 50 minutes. The bus stop will be located on Martin Luther King Dr. at Gate# 42 near room W196.

(PM) Free Sustainability Conference and Awards Dinner – UChicago Rubenstein Forum
12:45 pm – 1:30 pm – Registration
1:30 pm – 6:00 pm – CME NASA Sustainability Conference
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – CME Reception
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – CME Dinner and STEM Leadership Awards Presentation

Please register for both the Symposium and the free Conference using the same link at the top right of this webpage.

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/