ENFL/CATL Summer School Webinar Series

We are pleased to announce a 2025 summer school webinar series on Catalysts and Processes in a Decarbonized World. This webinar series is jointly sponsored by the Energy and Fuels (ENFL) and Catalysis Science & Technology (CATL) divisions of ACS. The summer school will consist of a series of three one-hour lectures held over three weeks that will teach important concepts in this area of 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 to division members, and members who attend all 3 webinars will receive a small gift from the divisions.

The series will include lectures from the following speakers:

Date/Speaker/Topic (All webinars will be held at 2PM Eastern time)

- July 30th / Fabio Ribeiro (Purdue Univ.) / Heterogeneous Catalysis: Unlocking Decarbonized Fuels, Chemicals, and Power

- August 6th / Michelle Young (Chevron) / Co-Processing of Biomass with Traditional Feedstocks

- August 13th / Corey Kaminsky (ExxonMobil) / Technoeconomics of Processes for Point Source CO2 Capture

Please find the single registration link for all three webinars here:

https://american-chemical-society.zoom.com/webinar/register/WN_TE3R1qQ9TiKqQMEGRDqHJQ

Registration for the webinars is free for division members. Membership is free for graduate students who are ACS members. You can join the divisions at the following links.

https://www.acs-catalysis.org/membership (CATL)

https://forms.gle/Y5R1wGvL5PtSTHKP9 (ENFL)

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 ENFL and CATL Educational Committees

Spring 2023 Student Travel Awards

The Catalysis Science and Technology (CATL) Division solicits applications for CATL-ChemCatBio Graduate Student Travel Awards, covering the registration fee of graduate students presenting at the Spring 2023 ACS National Meeting to be held March 26-30, 2023 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Recipients will be recognized at the Division reception to be held the evening of March 27, 2023, at a venue to be announced.

The travel awards aim to further the shared goals of the ACS CATL and ChemCatBio Consortium to provide educational opportunities in catalysis, support professional development of young scientists, and foster diversity and inclusion in chemical process research.

Students must be an ACS CATL Division Member to be eligible. Division membership is free for students; apply for membership here.

Please send as a single PDF file, in an email attachment:

1. Notice of abstract acceptance for a CATL-sponsored symposium

2. CV of the graduate student

3. Nomination letter from the student's PhD advisor

4. ACS Member numbers of the nominator and the nominee

Include CATL REGISTRATION AWARD APPLICATION (in capital letters) as the subject. Forward documentation to the ACS CATL Assistant at contractor.acs.catl@gmail.com by February 17, 2023.

Applicants are encouraged to register for the meeting in advance and save their receipt. Registration will be reimbursed following the meeting.

Sincerely,

Bill Schneider Josh Schaidle

CATL Division Chair ChemCatBio Director

CATL Division Summer School Webinar Series

We are pleased to announce our ACS CATL division summer school webinar series. The summer school will consist of a series of four one hour lectures held over four 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 to division members, and members who attend all 4 webinars will receive a certificate of participation and CATL division branded spirit wear. The lectures will cover three key fundamental topics that are essential for carrying out state of the art catalysis research, followed by a 4th lecture 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 13th/ Michele Sarazen (Princeton)/ Catalytic kinetics and transport Phenomena

July 20th/ Liney Arnadottier (Oregon State)/ Coupling experiments and theory

July 27th/ George Tsilomelekis (Rutgers)/ Spectroscopy & catalysis

August 3rd/ Phil Christopher (UCSB)/ Catalysis with supported single atoms

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. If you are not sure about your ACS and technical division membership status, please check the ACS membership website.

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, Steven Crossley, Rachel Getman, Kelsey Stoerzinger, Omar Abdelrahman