March 2024
A small meet-up at ACS New Orleans with alumni and current students. Congrats to Arsalaan for taking home 3rd place in the POLY-division Sci-Mix poster session!
March 2024
The ESW team makes a showing at the ACCESS STEM event, engaging with our youth and public school about STEM careers. Learn more at www.acessinc.org and special thanks to our supporters at the Synthomer Foundation!
February 2024
Arsalaan presented an oral seminar on polyolefin elastomers for biomedical applications and won 3rd prize in the poster session!
December 2023
Arlo Claus brings presents to the group for our annual gift exchange. Complete with end of the year Karaoke!
December 2023
The student organization put on the absolute best holiday party this year! Complete with a talent show… where Satej appears to be serenading Prof. Miyoshi and Chatanya.
October 2023
Yuliana, Brennan, and Arsalaan represent the group at SPE-VinylTec this year in Akron.
October 2023
The student organization of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering hosted a costume contest halloween party this year. First prize went to The Grim Reaper “Polymer Physics”. Even Wallace Carothers made an appearance!
September 2023
After completing NSF I-Corps Keaton’s business pitch on sustainable composites takes home the big check!
August 2023
Special congratulations to Nehemiah Hughes, Kaiden Mauck, and Darelle Thornton on their excellent summer research on the chemistry of materials. Thanks to the Synthomer Foundation and the American Chemical Society Project SEED program for their financial support of these talented individuals!
August 2023
Satej representing the group at ACS this fall with an oral presentation on his CO2-based vitrimers.
August 2023
Megan Mitchell completed her summer research on degradable thermosets! She was selected for giving an oral presentation at the symposium and will continue the work as part of her honors thesis.
August 2023
Derek successfully defended his thesis today marking the first PhD from the lab. Followed by a group “Escape Room”… is there a metaphor in that? Congrats Derek!
April 2023
Yuliana’s poster on synthetic polymer heart valve materials wins first place at the UA Graduate School Research Symposium!
March 2023
ACS Indianapolis trip was excellent. Great job to all our student presenters, with a special shoutout to Keaton receiving 1st place in the polymer division Sci-Mix poster session!
February 2023
Read about Keaton’s research on heterogeneous nickel catalysts that produce amorphous polyethylenes here
Special thanks to Goodyear Rubber Company for financially supporting Keaton’s scientific journey!
December 2022
Nothing screams “happy holidays” like hurling some polyurethane at wooden pins!
August 2022
Chris Kim presented his summer research as part of the NSF’s REU program and was selected for an oral presentation!
March 2022
Our undergraduate recycling group ZPP yields a great haul of HDPE bottle caps from local public schools. Time to compression mold some key chains!
February 2022
The tradition of Groundhog’s Day trivia and games continues this year… along with the tradition of Walter collapsing the tower!
August 2021
Terrific presentations from our high school visiting scholar Amelia on cleaning up our PET recycling streams, and all the other St. Vincent/St. Mary’s researchers!
April 2023
Congrats to Gavan, Leyao, and Sayan for publishing their research that won 1st place at the recent Tire Society meeting. You can read more about their investigations into recycled PET fibers here!
Special thanks to our NSF Center for Tire Research (CenTiRe) industrial mentors for financially sponsoring their work.
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