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