CATL 2025 Award Announcements

The Catalysis Science and Technology Division (CATL) of the American Chemical Society (ACS) proudly announces the winners of the 2025 Division Awards. These awards recognize individuals who have made exceptionally impactful contributions to the design, synthesis and/or chemical or mechanistic characterization of catalysts, which significantly advance the science and practice of catalysis.

Congratulations to Dr. Michele Sarazen, Princeton University, recipient of the 2025 Early Career Award in Catalysis. This award recognizes and encourages accomplishments and innovation of unusual merit by an individual in early stages of their career, emphasizing independence and creativity.

Congratulations to Dr. Simon Bare, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, recipient of the 2025 award for Exceptional Achievements in Catalysis.  This award acknowledges excellence and scientific leadership in catalysis science and technology by an individual, emphasizing the impact of a researcher's body of work in the broad field of catalytic chemistry and catalytic materials or molecules.

Drs. Sarazen’s and Bare’s accomplishments will be celebrated during awards symposia to be held as part of the Fall 2025 American Chemical Society National Meeting, August 17 - 21. Washington, DC.

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