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Most Prestigious Student & Mentor Awards in Polymer Science and Engineering

The Awards

Conceived & sponsored by CME and organized by PMSE

The first annual ACS Global Outstanding Student and Mentor Awards in Polymer Science and Engineering were awarded to two teams on April 1, 2019, at the Third Annual CME NASA Symposium-the first symposium to ever receive the endorsement of all 31 technical divisions active at the national meetings of the world’s largest scientific society.

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2019 Polymer Science Student & Mentor Honorees from left: Bert Meijer (Mentor), Bas van Genabeek (Student), Seunghyun Sim (Student) and Takuzo Aida (Mentor).
2019 Polymer Science Awards from left: Honggang Cui (Director), Takuzo Aida (Mentor), George Rodriguez (Founder), Seunghyun Sim (Student), Bert Meijer (Mentor), Bas van Genabeek (Student).
2019: Symposium Reception. Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold (3rd from left), NASA Chief Scientist James Green (5th), four ACS Past Presidents, BASF Bioscience President under the Saturn V rocket.
2019: CME NASA Symposium Reception held at the Saturn V building of the spectacular Kennedy Space Center with 700 facilities in the center's 144,000 acres (580 km2) in Cape Canaveral, FL.

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Students and Mentors Awardees

Students

Seunghyun Sim

Seunghyun Sim

Caltech

Postdoc

 Bas van Genabeek

Bas van Genabeek

SyMO-Chem

Researcher

 Austin Evans

Austin Evans

CME Board Member

Columbia University

 Qi Zhang

Qi Zhang

University of Groningen

Honoree: ACS Outstanding International Student, Polymer Science & Engineering

 Vivian Feig

Vivian Feig

MIT

Schmidt Science Fellow

 Spyridon Varlas

Spyridon Varlas

University of Sheffield

Research Associate

Mentors

Takuzo Aida

Takuzo Aida

Riken

Group Director

 Bert Meijer

Bert Meijer

Eindhoven University

Distinguished Professor

 William Dichtel

William Dichtel

Northwestern University

Robert L. Letsinger Professor of Chemistry

 He Tian

He Tian

East China University

Professor

 Ben Feringa

Ben Feringa

University of Groningen

Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

 Zhenan Bao

Zhenan Bao

Stanford University

K.K. Lee Professor

Rachel O’Reilly

Rachel O’Reilly

University of Birmingham

Professor

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