Division/Committee: [I&EC] Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry

The Industrial & Engineering Chemistry (I&EC) Division of the American Chemical Society requests papers for its 13th Annual Graduate Student Award Symposium. While the meeting is a hybrid event, we are currently planning for an in-person symposium. This symposium allows outstanding current graduate students to disseminate their research to the global professional community. The Division seeks research papers from the chemical or material sciences and engineering departments that are broadly relevant to industrial and engineering chemistry. The Division anticipates holding one full day of presentations. Student participants will be expected to attend the symposium awards luncheon as well (at no cost to students), and their research advisors and guests are also invited to attend. Students must first input their abstracts in the ACS MAPS abstracts system by the ACS deadline, which is April 4, 2023. Student authors should select the Oral Presentation Only option. Selection for the symposium is competitive; students who are not accepted for the Award Symposium will have the option to present their work in the I&EC Division poster session or in the General Papers session. Benefits and Awards: Every graduate student lead author accepted for this Symposium will be awarded an ACS member’s meeting registration fee, plus a ticket to the Awards Luncheon. All submissions and presentations will be evaluated by a panel selected by the Division. In addition, the first, second, and third place winners will receive monetary awards ($550, 400, and $250, respectively). Furthermore, the ACS Committee on Environmental Improvement will sponsor one additional award in this Symposium. A $500 award will be given for the best paper that addresses the role of industrial and engineering chemistry in meeting UN Sustainability Goals. The paper should include discussion on demonstrating the relevance of the research to one or more of the 17 UN Sustainability Goals; see https://www.acs.org/sustainability/chemistry-sustainable-development-goals.html. To be eligible for any award, the presenter must be a senior graduate student (3rd year or higher) who is pursuing a graduate degree in the chemical sciences or engineering or a closely related field at the time of the symposium. Graduate student lead authors must also ask their supervisors to email a brief letter of confirmation directly to the symposium organizers, atiec.student.symposium@gmail.com. The confirmation letter should simply confirm that the student is currently enrolled and is the lead author responsible for the work to be presented. No further information is needed in the support letter. The support letter should be sent to iec.student.symposium@gmail.com by May 10, 2023. Students will be notified of their acceptance by May 26, 2022. Questions about this symposium can be directed to the organizers, again using the symposium email iec.student.symposium@gmail.com.

George Stanley

Louisiana State Univ

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