NACS Newsletter Ciapetta Lectureship in Distinguished Service Catalysis Award VOLUME LI, ISSUE 2 Nominations Deadline 10 Nominations Deadline 25 WWW.NACATSOC.ORG November 2017 May 2018 Awards Presented by the Club News Club Directory NACS Back to Cover National Officers: President - Jingguang Chen, Columbia The F. G. Ciapetta Lectureship in Catalysis University & Brookhaven National Laboratory; Vice-President - Christopher Jones, Georgia Insti- tute of Technology; Secretary - Javier Guzman, ExxonMobil; Deadline for nominations is 10 November 2017 Treasurer - Beata Kilos, Dow Chemical Company; Lead Trus- tee - Thomas F. Degnan, Jr., University of Notre Dame; Com- he F. G. Ciapetta Lectureship and lecture to each of the affiliat- Chen, President, North American munications Director - Edrick Morales, Sasol (USA) Corporation. in Catalysis (prior to 1973 The ed Clubs/Societies with which mu- Catalysis Society; at National Lectureship) is spon- tually satisfactory arrangements [email protected]. Receipt of Club Representatives: California - T Alex Katz, University of California, sored by the W.R. Grace & Co. can be made. any nomination, will be confirmed Berkeley; Canada - Josephine and The North American Catalysis Selection of the awardee will Hill, University of Calgary; Chica- by an email message sent to any go - Christopher L. Marshall, Ar- Society. The Society administers be made without regard to age, nominator. gonne National Laboratory; this Lectureship. It is to be award- sex, nationality, or affiliation. The Mexico - José Javier Rivera de la Rosa , Universidad Autonoma de ed biennially in even numbered nomination materials should de- Previous Award Winners Nuevo Leon; Michigan - Eric years. The Award consists of a 1967 Jan H. deBoer Stangland, The Dow Chemical scribe clearly, specifically, and Company; New England - William plaque and an honorarium of concisely the nominee’s qualifica- 1968 John Sinfelt C. Conner, University of Massa- $5,000. Travel expenses are pro- 1969 Stanlislas Teichner chusetts; New York - Israel E. tions and accomplishments in the Wachs, Lehigh University; Pacific - vided through a travel escrow context of the specific award. 1972 George C.A. Schuit Alex Katz, University of California- 1973 Jose J. Fripiat Berkeley; Philadelphia - Dion fund, administered by the NACS, These materials should include Vlachos, University of Delaware; to be used on a "as needed basis" the following documents 1974 Dennis A. Dowden Pittsburgh/Cleveland - Götz 1975 Pierre C. Gravelle Vesser, University of Pittsburgh; for the recipients from academia (submitted as a single PDF file and Organic Reactions Catalysis or industrial companies (with < not exceeding the indicated 1976 Gerhard Ertl Society - Christopher W. Jones, 1977 John R. Anderson Georgia Institute of Technology; $100 Million annual sales; up to length): (i) a nomination letter Rocky Mountain - Ryan Richards, $3,000. for employees of larger (1000 words); (ii) two supporting 1986 Michel Boudart Colorado School of Mines; South- 1988 James D. Idol east - Steven H. Overbury, Oak companies). letters (800 words each); (iii) a nar- Ridge National Laboratory; The Award is given in recogni- rative biographical note (500 1990 W. Keith Hall Southwest - Mike Reynolds, Shell; 1992 R. van Santen Tri-State (KY/OH/WV) - Umit S. tion of substantial contributions to words); and (iv) a curriculum vi- Ozkan, The Ohio State University. one or more areas in the field of tae, including relevant positions 1994 John J. Rooney 1996 George Kokotailo Directors–at–Large: Abhaya catalysis with emphasis on industri- and recognitions and a list of pub- Datye, University of New Mexico; ally significant catalysts and cata- lications and patents. 1998 Avelino Corma Jim Dumesic, University of Wis- 2000 Gary McVicker consin; Maria Flytzani- lytic processes and the discovery The nomination and support- Stephanopoulos; Tufts University; of new catalytic reactions and ing letters should be specific to 2002 John Monnier Bruce C. Gates, University of 2004 Douglas Stephan California at Davis; Fabio H. Ribei- systems of potential industrial im- the year and to the name of the ro, Purdue University; Stuart L. portance. The awardee will be award. 2006 Stuart Soled Soled, ExxonMobil. selected on the basis of his/her Nominations for the Ciapetta 2008 Robert Farrauto contributions to the catalytic liter- Award will close on 10 November 2010 Jeffrey T. Miller Copyright © 2017 North American Catalysis Society. ature and the current timeliness of 2017. All nomination packages for 2012 Thomas Degnan these research contributions. The the Ciapetta Award should be 2014 Paul Barger recipient may be invited to visit should be sent to Jingguang 2016 Ahmad Moini Back to Cover he 25th North American Rocky Mountains, the Denver sky- Catalysis on Plasmonic Nanoparti- Fossil Fuels, Catalyst Design and City Park and Museum of Nature group of catalysis researchers Meeting (NAM) of the North line, and a spectacular sunset. cles and Bruce Gates from the Synthesis, Catalyst Modelling and and Science. A baseball match- under the umbrella of the NACS. T American Catalysis Society The included pictures capture University of California Davis re- Simulation, Environmental Cataly- up between the Colorado Rockies The WSCC became the Rocky was held June 4-9, 2017 in Denver some of the memorable moments ceived the Michel Boudart award sis, Fine and Industrial Chemicals, and the Cleveland Indians con- Mountain Catalysis Society Colorado. The meeting was host- from NAM 25 including the ban- for his work on Molecular Catalysts Fundamentals of Catalysis, Photo- cluded Tuesday’s activities. (RMCS) in 2015. The RMCS previ- ed by the Rocky Mountain Catal- quet hall, Colorado themed cui- on Supports: Organometallic catalysis and Electrocatalysis, and Wednesday evening provided ously hosted the 14th NAM at ysis Society. The theme of the sine served at the opening recep- Chemistry Meets Surface Science. Reaction Engineering. A total of conference attendees an oppor- Snowbird Utah in 1995. meeting was Mile High Catalysis. tion and Enrique Iglesia getting a The society also presented the 115 sessions were arranged tunity to participate in a Pub The organizers of NAM25 A record 1525 people regis- standing ovation for his service as Robert Burwell award to around these 10 topical areas. Crawl. Participants were able to thank Meeting Solutions Inc. for tered for the meeting, including the President of NACS. Jingguang Chen from Columbia Within these technical sessions visit 12 of Denver’s finest bars, providing all of the logistical sup- 475 students. The attendees repre- The meeting included three University and the F. G. Ciapetta were 580 oral presentations by breweries and wineries. port including registration and on sented 41 countries with 35% at- keynote presentations by the re- lectureship to Ahmad Moini from attendees along with 19 invited Ryan Richards from Colorado site arrangements. tending from outside of the United cipients of awards presented by BASF. Gary Haller from Yale Uni- keynote lectures. Three evening School of Mines and Abhaya States. Industrial representatives the North American Catalysis Soci- versity received the Award for poster session had an additional Datye from the University of New were 40% of attendees with 48% ety. These include Jeffery Bricker Distinguished Service in the Ad- 520 presentations. Mexico served as Meeting Chairs. from academia and 12% from from UOP-Honeywell who re- vancement of Catalysis. Social program events includ- Cal Bartholomew from Brigham national laboratories. ceived the Eugene Houdry award For the first time, there were 8 ed a 5k run on Tuesday morning. Young University was the Honoray The opening reception was for his work on Recent Advances parallel technical presentation The overall winners were Evgeny Chair. Cal Bartholomew was a attended by more than 1000 con- in Catalysis for Petrochemicals, sessions. The technical program Beletskiy, Scientific Design Co. founding member of the Western ference attendees. The reception Suljo Linic from the University of focused around 10 topical areas: and Kate Mingle, South Carolina. States Catalysis Club (WSCC) took place at the Pinnacle Club Michigan received the Paul Em- Biomass Conversion, Catalyst Tuesday also included a self- which was established 1985. He with panoramic views of the mett award for his research on Characterization, Catalysis for guided meet-up of the Denver helped bring together a scattered Back to Cover Back to Cover Back to Cover Awards Presented by the North American Catalysis Society he North American Catalysis Canvassing and Nomination Pro- academia, and national labs. The The recipient of the Award Webpage: http:// Webpage: http:// T Society sponsors six prestigious cesses members of this jury must have no and his/her nominators are in- nacatsoc.org/awards/ nacatsoc.org/awards/ awards and lectureships to recog- NACS encourages all nominations affiliation with any of the nomi- formed of the decision of the jury, boudart/ houdry/ The Robert Burwell Lectureship Award for Distinguished Service nize the accomplishments of ca- for these awards and nominators nees and are specifically asked to followed by notification of jury in Catalysis in the Advancement of Cataly- talysis scientists and to promote and nominees need not be NACS disclose any conflicts of interest members and of nominators of Sponsored by Johnson Mat- sis the advancement of catalysis members. The President instructs and to disqualify themselves with-