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COOPERATIVE RESEARCH AWARD IN POLYMER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SPONSORED BY THE
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY

Nominations are invited for the Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering's Cooperative Research Award in Polymer Science and Engineering Sponsored by the Eastman Kodak Company. The Division believes that this award is unique, relevant and timely to today's research environment. It is given to recognize and encourage sustained cooperative research between industrial and academic or industrial and national laboratory scientists. The cooperative research must be of significant importance to polymer science and technology.

The award was established in the fall of 1992 and is supported by a generous gift from the Eastman Kodak Company. It consists of $3,000, a plaque and a travel allowance to attend the meeting at which the award is presented. The awardee(s) is expected to give a lecture at the meeting.

The nominee(s) for this award must have a documented (patents, publications, etc.) record of sustained, intensive cooperative and collaborative research across the university/industry or national laboratory/industry interface. This research must be of significant importance to polymer science and technology. This award can be an individual award or can be shared between an academic and industrial scientist or between a national laboratory and an industrial scientist.

The 2002 award will be presented at the Spring 2002 ACS Meeting in Orlando at the PMSE Awards Luncheon. Nominations for the 2002 award will be accepted any time before June 8, 2001 and should be sent to Loren Hill, 9 Bellows Road, Wilbraham, MA 01095, lorenwhill@msn.com. The nomination should include a brief curriculum vitae of the candidate(s) and significant evidence of the collaborative research including supporting letter(s) explaining the significance of the research.

Previous winners of the award include:

1994	Jean M. J. Fréchet, Hiroshi Ito, C. Grant Willson
1995	Leo Mandelkern, C. Stanley Speed, Ferdinand C. Stehling
1996	Ray H. Baughman
1997	Henry K. Hall, Jr.
1998	Lynda K. Johnson, Maurice Brookhart
1999	Jose E. Valentini, Yee C. Chiew, Leslie J. Fina, John Q. Jiang
2000	James A. Schwindeman, Roderic P. Quirk
2001	P. S. Chum, Anne Hiltner

2001 COOPERATIVE RESEARCH AWARD IN POLYMER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SPONSORED BY THE EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY

Dr. Chum Dr. Hiltner

Dr. Steve Chum Prof. Anne Hiltner

Prof. Anne Hiltner of the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and Dr. Steve Chum of Polyolefins R&D of The Dow Chemical Company are winners of the 2001 Award for Cooperative Research in Polymer Science and Engineering presented by the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE). The award was announced by Dr. Loren Hill, Chairman of the PMSE Cooperative Research Award Committee. It has been presented yearly since 1992, when it was endowed by a gift from the Eastman Kodak Company to PMSE.

The 2001 award is based on joint research between Dr. Hiltner, Professor and Director of the Center for Applied Polymer Research at CWRU, and Dr. Chum, a Research Fellow at Dow, that was initiated in 1992 with a goal of understanding structure/property relationships of new polyolefin copolymers made possible by use of Dow metallocene catalysts, which are also referred to as single-site, constrained geometry catalysts. New copolymers of ethylene with styrene and ethylene with octene have been studied. Introduction of styrene reduces the crystallinity characteristic of polyethylene such that the crystalline/amorphous ratio can be controlled in copolymers of various monomer ratios. Detailed analyses of the effects of copolymer structure variation on both linear and nonlinear viscoelastic behavior have been published recently. Collaboration has resulted in seventeen joint publications. Evaluators of the nomination were impressed by the scientific contributions of this work and by commercial successes stimulated by the joint effort.

Professor Hiltner has long been an effective leader of cooperative university/industry applied research. She was one of the first Directors of a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC), and she is currently the longest serving I/UCRC Director. Dr. Chum is recognized in academia and industry as an authority on semi-crystalline polymer systems. Among his honors are the ACS Brazosport Section award for scientific achievement and recognition as a Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers.

The awards, which each include a $1500 prize, will be presented at PMSE's awards luncheon at the Spring 2001 American Chemical Society meeting in San Diego.

For more information, contact Dr. Loren Hill, Chairman, PMSE Cooperative Research Award Committee, Telephone: 413-596-4463, lorenwhill@msn.com.

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