ACS fall meeting

The Fall 2024 ACS meeting in Denver is fast approaching! Some updates regarding the meeting:

• Division programming will be held in the Colorado Convention Center. The full schedule is available on the ACS website.
  

• Highlights of the program include the Monday ACS Catalysis Lectureship symposium in honor of Serge Ruccolo (biocatalysis), Christina Li (heterogeneous catalysis), Christo Sevov (homogeneous catalysis), Tuesday CATL Division Early Career Award symposium in honor of Linsey Seitz, and Tuesday CATL Exceptional Achievements Award symposium in honor of Abhaya Datye.

●      The Division will be hosting a reception/open meeting for division members and speakers at the Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery on Monday, August 19, 6:30 - 8:00 pm. Beverages and light appetizers will be provided. The attendance may be limited to 110 people. Plan to stop by to network, catch up with colleagues, and congratulate the students who receive the travel awards below!

●      Twenty-six graduate students have been selected for the CATL-ChemCatBio Graduate Student Travel Award. Congratulations to the following students and their advisors:

Awardee	University	Advisor
Zahra Almisbaa	UCLA	Philippe Sautet
Mubarak Bello	University of South Carolina	Andreas Heyden
Jay Bender	University of Texas at Austin	Joaquin Resasco
Chayton Boucher	University of Maine	Brian Frederick
Soham Chakraborty	Rutgers University	Alan Goldman
Amish Chovatiya	University of Notre Dame	William Schneider
Daniel Chu	MIT	Heather Kulik
Kayla Eudy	Pennsylvania State University	Robert Rioux
Samay Garg	Columbia University	Jingguang Chen
Saleh Ibrahim	University of Massachusetts Lowell	Fanglin Che
Olusola Johnson	University of South Florida	John Kuhn
Richard Kang	UC Berkeley	Martin Head-Gordon
Špela Kunstelj	University of Chicago	Anna Wuttig
Jesse Larence	University of New Mexico	Abhaya Datye
Harrison Lippie	University of Texas at Austin	Joaquin Resasco
Xiao Kun Lu	Northwestern University	Linsey Seitz
Raul Marquez	University of Texas at Austin	Charles Mullins
Snehal Patil	The Ohio State University	Umit Ozkan
Nishan Paudyal	University of Wyoming	Jing Zhou
Fereshteh Rezvani	Indiana University	Steven Tait
Ari Thompson	Oregon State University	Konstantinos Goulas
Kajol Tonk	Iowa State University	Aaron Sadow
Manasi Vyas	Colorado School of Mines	Stephanie Kwon
Zayne Weber	Pennsylvania State University	Robert Rioux
Shuting Xiang	Stony Brook University	Anatoly Frenkel
Yuting Xu	University of Massachusetts Lowell	Fanglin Che

Looking forward to seeing you in Denver!

Eranda Nikolla

Division Chair

erandan@umich.edu

CATL Division Summer School Webinar Series

Dear ACS Catalysis division members,

We are pleased to announce our 2024 ACS CATL division summer school webinar series on the Data in Catalysis. The summer school will consist of a series of three one-hour lectures held over three weeks that will teach foundational ideas in catalysis research. Lectures will be followed by an interactive Q&A session. This series will be an outstanding introduction for students new to the field. The webinars are particularly geared toward graduate students, but students and more senior researchers alike are welcome to attend. Attendance is free for division members. The lectures will cover key fundamental topics that are essential for carrying out state of the art catalysis research, illustrating how these approaches can be used in a promising emerging field.

The lectures will cover the following topics:

Date/Speaker/Topic (All webinars will be held at 2PM Eastern time)

- July 23rd/ Neil Schweitzer (Northwestern University)

- Aug 2nd/ John Kitchin (Carnegie Mellon University)

- Aug 8th/ Kevin Leonard (Kansas University)

Please find the registration link for the webinars here.

Registration for the webinars is free for CATL division members. CATL division membership is free for graduate students who are ACS members. CATL division membership is similarly $10 for affiliates (non-ACS members) and regular ACS members. https://www.acs-catalysis.org/membership

Please help us to spread the word and encourage your students and colleagues to sign up! Space is limited, so please act fast to reserve a spot. 

Sincerely,

ACS CATL Educational Committee,

Matteo Cargnello, Sara Yacob, Kelsey Stoerzinger, Omar Abdelrahman

Spring 2023 Student Travel Awards

The Catalysis Science and Technology (CATL) Division solicits applications for CATL-ChemCatBio Graduate Student Travel Awards, covering the registration fee of graduate students presenting at the Spring 2023 ACS National Meeting to be held March 26-30, 2023 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Recipients will be recognized at the Division reception to be held the evening of March 27, 2023, at a venue to be announced.

The travel awards aim to further the shared goals of the ACS CATL and ChemCatBio Consortium to provide educational opportunities in catalysis, support professional development of young scientists, and foster diversity and inclusion in chemical process research.

Students must be an ACS CATL Division Member to be eligible. Division membership is free for students; apply for membership here.

Please send as a single PDF file, in an email attachment:

1. Notice of abstract acceptance for a CATL-sponsored symposium

2. CV of the graduate student

3. Nomination letter from the student's PhD advisor

4. ACS Member numbers of the nominator and the nominee

Include CATL REGISTRATION AWARD APPLICATION (in capital letters) as the subject. Forward documentation to the ACS CATL Assistant at contractor.acs.catl@gmail.com by February 17, 2023.

Applicants are encouraged to register for the meeting in advance and save their receipt. Registration will be reimbursed following the meeting.

Sincerely,

Bill Schneider Josh Schaidle

CATL Division Chair ChemCatBio Director