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We’ve collected them all! This year’s team of rising stars is assembled inside. P.40 ACS AWARDS NEWS ACS 2018 national award winners LINDA WANG, C&EN WASHINGTON ACS Award in Industrial Chemistry, spon- sored by the ACS Division of Industrial & ollowing are the recipients of awards administered Engineering Chemistry, George P. Lahm, by the American Chemical Society for 2018. With the DuPont Crop Protection. exception of the Arthur C. Cope Scholars, recipients ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry, will be honored at the awards ceremony on Tuesday, sponsored by Aldrich Chemical, James F Moers Mayer, Yale University. March 20, 2018, in conjunction with the 255th ACS National Meeting in New Orleans. Nominations are being accepted for the ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry, 2019 national awards through Nov. 1. For more information, visit sponsored by the Dow Chemical www.acs.org/nationalawards. Foundation, Clifford P. Kubiak, University of California, San Diego. ACS Award for Achievement in B. Rauchfuss, University of Illinois, Research for the Teaching & Learning of Urbana-Champaign. ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry, Chemistry, sponsored by the ACS Exams sponsored by ExxonMobil Chemical, Institute, George M. Bodner, Purdue ACS Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Carlton G. Willson, University of Texas, University. Students into Careers in the Chemical Austin. Sciences, sponsored by the Camille & ACS Award for Affordable Green Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Jani C. Ingram, ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, sponsored Chemistry, sponsored by Dow Chemical Northern Arizona University. by the Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity and the and endowed by Rohm and Haas, B. Alpha Chi Sigma Educational Foundation, Frank Gupton, Virginia Commonwealth ACS Award for Encouraging Women Mircea Dincă, Massachusetts Institute of University, and D. Tyler McQuade, into Careers in the Chemical Sciences, Technology. Defense Advanced Research Projects sponsored by the Camille & Henry Agency. Dreyfus Foundation, Rebecca T. Ruck, ACS Award in Separations Science Merck & Co. & Technology, sponsored by Waters ACS Award for Computers in Chemical Corp., Massimo Morbidelli, Swiss & Pharmaceutical Research, sponsored ACS Award for Research at an Undergrad- Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), by the ACS Division of Computers in uate Institution, sponsored by Research Zurich. Chemistry, Jürgen Bajorath, University Corporation for Science Advancement, Jo- of Bonn and University of Washington. seph J. Pesek, San José State University. ACS Award in Surface Chemistry, sponsored by Proctor & Gamble, Stacey F. ACS Award for Creative Advances in ACS Award for Team Innovation, Bent, Stanford University. Environmental Science & Technology, sponsored by ACS Corporation Associates, sponsored by the ACS Division of Vladimir G. Beylin, Brian P. Chekal, ACS Award in the Chemistry of Materials, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental and Nga M. Do, Pfizer; Brian P. Jones, sponsored by DuPont, Elsa Reichmanis, Science & Technology, and Environmental Pfizer Central Research; Nathan D. Ide, Georgia Institute of Technology. Science & Technology Letters, Barbara J. AbbVie; Peter L. Toogood, Lycera; Hairong Turpin, University of North Carolina, (Angela) Zhou, Genentech; and David W. ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry, Chapel Hill. Fry. sponsored by the ACS Division of Physical Chemistry, Emily Ann Carter, Princeton ACS Award for Creative Invention, ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry, University. sponsored by ACS Corporation sponsored by the Battelle Memorial Associates, Robert S. Kania, Pfizer. Institute, Michael Lawrence Gross, Award for Volunteer Service to the Washington University in St. Louis. American Chemical Society, sponsored by ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine ACS, Carol A. Duane, D&D Consultants of Chemistry, sponsored by the ACS ACS Award in Applied Polymer Science, Mentor. Division of Fluorine Chemistry, Erhard sponsored by Eastman Chemical, Paula Kemnitz, Humboldt University of Berlin. T. Hammond, Massachusetts Institute of Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic Technology. or Bioorganic Chemistry, sponsored ACS Award for Creative Work in by the Alfred R. Bader Fund, Alison Synthetic Organic Chemistry, sponsored ACS Award in Chromatography, sponsored Butler, University of California, Santa by MilliporeSigma, Brian M. Stoltz, by MilliporeSigma, Janusz Boleslaw Barbara. California Institute of Technology. Pawliszyn, University of Waterloo. Earle B. Barnes Award for Leadership ACS Award for Distinguished Service in ACS Award in Colloid Chemistry, in Chemical Research Management, the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry, sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive, Håkan sponsored by the Dow Chemical sponsored by Strem Chemicals, Thomas Wennerström, Lund University. Foundation, Margaret M. Faul, Amgen.

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Fu, California Institute of Interpreting Chemistry for the Public, University of Utah. Technology. sponsored by ACS, Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, University of Wisconsin, Madison. George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon Alfred Burger Award in Medicinal or Petroleum Chemistry, sponsored by Chemistry, sponsored by Gilead Sciences, Harry Gray Award for Creative Work the George A. Olah Award Endowment, Dennis C. Liotta, Emory University. in Inorganic Chemistry by a Young Oliver C. Mullins, Schlumberger-Doll Investigator, sponsored by the Gray Research. James Bryant Conant Award in High Award Endowment, Dwight S. Seferos, School Chemistry Teaching, sponsored University of Toronto. George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical by the Journal of Chemical Education and Education, sponsored by Cengage ChemEd X, Brian John Kennedy, Thomas Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry Learning and the ACS Division of Jefferson High School for Science & of Natural Products, sponsored by Chemical Education, Pratibha Varma- Technology. Givaudan, David R. Williams, Indiana Nelson, Indiana University-Purdue University, Bloomington. University Indianapolis. Arthur C. Cope Award, sponsored by the Arthur C. Cope Fund, Steven V. Ley, Kathryn C. Hach Award for Priestley Medal, sponsored by ACS, University of Cambridge. Entrepreneurial Success, sponsored by Geraldine (Geri) Richmond, University of the Kathryn C. Hach Award Fund, Javier Oregon. Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards, García Martínez, University of Alicante, sponsored by the Arthur C. Cope Fund, Rive Technology. Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Emily P. 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MacMillan, Princeton University. Surya Prakash, University of Southern California; Keith Woerpel, New York Frederic Stanley Kipping Award in Silicon George & Christine Sosnovsky Award University. Chemistry, sponsored by Dow Corning, for Cancer Research, sponsored by Tamejiro Hiyama, Chuo University. the George & Christine Sosnovsky Elias J. Corey Award for Outstanding Endowment Fund, Paul J. Hergenrother, Original Contribution in Organic Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Synthesis by a Young Investigator, Physics, sponsored by ACS and the ACS sponsored by the Pfizer Endowment Division of Physical Chemistry, George E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy, Fund, Seth B. Herzon, Yale University. William Flynn, Columbia University. sponsored by the E. Bright Wilson Endowment, Richard J. Saykally, F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Josef Michl ACS Award in Photochemistry, University of California, Berkeley. 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