- POLY Graduate Student Travel Award to provide funding for graduate students studying at a US institution and working in the field of polymer science to travel to a National ACS meeting and present their work
- POLY Outstanding Poster Award to increase the importance and visibility of posters being presented at ACS National Meetings in the POLY section.
- DSM Bright Science Award for Ph.D. Students to recognize and reward excellence in innovative PhD research in polymer technology
- Henkel Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Polymer Science & Engineering (co-sponsored by PMSE) to recognize a PhD graduate student or recent graduate who has completed an outstanding PhD thesis in research at a university in the US or Canada