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For an outline of the POLY Org Chart, please see: POLY Org Chart
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Chair 

Derek Patton
University of Southern Mississippi
derek.patton@usm.edu

Chair Elect

Haley Brown
Dow Chemical Company
hbrown1@dow.com

Vice Chair

Erik Berda
University of New Hampshire
Erik.Berda@unh.edu

Secretary

Tayler Hebner
Purdue University
thebner@purdue.edu

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Treasurer

John Matson
Virginia Tech
jbmatson@vt.edu

Member-at-Large

Piril Ertem
3M
sertem2@mmm.com

  

Councilors

Brian Long
UT Knoxville
long@utk.edu

Mary Ann Meador
NASA Glenn (Retired)
mabmeador@gmail.com

Greg Tew
UMass Amherst
tew@mail.pse.umass.edu

Kathryn Uhrich 
UC Riverside
kathryn.uhrich@ucr.edu

Alternate Councilors

Danniebelle Haase
Dow Chemical Company
DHaase@dow.com

Colleen Scott
Mississippi State University 
cscott@chemistry.msstate.edu 

Yoan Simon
Arizona State University
Yoan.Simon@asu.edu

Caroline Szczepanski
Michigan State University
szcz@msu.edu

  

Past Chair

Laura Stratton
PCI
laura@polychemistry.com

Past-Past Chair

Dawanne Poree
US Army Research Lab.
dawanne.e.poree.civ@army.mil

 

POLY Division Committee List

Industrial Advisory Board

  • Co-Chair: Kapil Dev Sayala (Seqens)  Kapildev.Sayala@seqens.com
  • Co-Chair: Mike Sims (Syensqo) michael.sims@syensqo.com
  • Poly ExComm Liaison: Hayley Brown (Dow Chemical Co.) hbrown1@dow.com

International Relations

  • Chair: Rigoberto Advincula (UT and ORNL) radvincu@utk.edu
  • Co-Chair: Wei Gao (Dow Chemical Co.) weigao@dow.com
  • Co-Chair: Richard Hoogenboom (Ghent University) richard.hoogenboom@ugent.be
  • Mike Meador (NASA Glenn – Retired) michael-meador@sbcglobal.net
  • Thomas W. Smith (RIT)
  • Peter Zarras (ORNL) peter.zarras.civ@us.navy.mil
  • POLY ExComm Liaison: Erik Berda (Univ. of New Hampshire) Erik.Berda@unh.edu

Awards

  • Chair: Toby Nelson (UT Knoxville) tnelso31@utk.edu
  • Chuanbing Tang (University of South Carolina) TANG4@mailbox.sc.edu
  • Mike Sims (Syensqo), michael.sims@syensqo.com
  • Poly ExComm Liaison: Hayley Brown (Dow Chemical Co.) hbrown1@dow.com
  • Poster Award Co-Judges:  Nicholas VanZee (Hoya), Nicholas.VanZee@hoya.com and Xiangyi Zhang (Dow Chemical Co.), xzhang16@dow.com

Programming Committee for National Meetings

  • Julia Kalow (Northwestern Univ. ) jkalow@northwestern.edu
  • Alice Savage (ARL) alice.m.savage2.civ@army.mil
  • Graham Collier (USM) graham.collier@usm.edu
  • Michael Petr (Dow Chemical Co.) mpetr@dow.com
  • POLY Business Office Liaison: Kathy Mitchem kathyl@vt.edu
  • Poly ExComm Liaison: Hayley Brown (Dow Chemical Co.) hbrown1@dow.com

Workshops

  • Chair: Beth Elacqua (Penn State Univ.) eze31@psu.edu
  • Rigoberto Advincula (UT and ORNL) radvincu@utk.edu
  • Mike Hickner (Michigan State) mhickner@msu.edu
  • Jena McCollum (Univ. of Colorado Springs) jmccollu@uccs.edu
  • Rakesh Nambiar (DuPont)
  • Yongping Zha (Sun Chemical)
  • Helen Tran (Univ. Toronto) tran@utoronto.ca
  • POLY ExComm Liaison: Erik Berda (Univ. of New Hampshire) Erik.Berda@unh.edu

Regional Meetings

  • Chair: Ying Yang (University of Nevada, Reno) yingy@unr.edu
  • Mark Dadmun (UT Knoxville) dad@utk.edu
  • Jody Neef (Pittsburgh State) cneef@pittstate.edu
  • Xiaocun Lu (Clarkson) xlu@clarkson.edu
  • James Pagaduan (Dow) jn.pagaduan@gmail.com
  • POLY ExComm Liaison: Erik Berda (Univ. of New Hampshire) Erik.Berda@unh.edu

Nomenclature

  • Allan Guymon (University of Iowa) allan-guymon@uiowa.edu

Business Office

  • Carlee Black carleel@vt.edu
  • Kathy Mitchem kathyl@vt.edu

Membership

  • Chair: Oleg Davydovich (Sandia National Lab) davydovich122@gmail.com
  • Brian Long (UT Knoxville) long@utk.edu
  • Colleen Scott (MS State) cscott@chemistry.msstate.edu

Publicity

  • Chair: Tayler Hebner (Purdue University) thebner@purdue.edu
  • Twitter: Jeff Ting (Nanite)  jeff@nanitebio.com
  • Coralie Backlund (Novo Nordisk Foundation) backlunc@gmail.com
  • Kaden Stevens (University of Florida) kadenstevens@ufl.edu

Webinars

  • Chair: Bob Lambeth (Army Research Laboratory) robert.h.lambeth2.civ@army.mil
  • Tomonori Saito (ORNL/UT Knoxville) saitot@ornl.gov
  • Rebecca Olson Short (Goodyear) RAShort@PPG.com
  • Brent Sumerlin (University of Florida) sumerlin@chem.ufl.edu

Education – MACRO

  • POLY Co-Chair: Phil Costanzo (CAL POLY) pcostanz@calpoly.edu
  • PMSE Co-Chair: Elizabeth Sterner (Lebanon Valley College) esterner@lvc.edu

Student Chapters

  • POLY Representative: Kaitlyn Crawford kcrawford@ucf.edu
  • PMSE Representative: Kaitlyn Crawford kcrawford@ucf.edu

POLY List

  • Frank Blum (Oklahoma State Univ.) fblum@okstate.edu

Bylaws and Operations

  • Laura Stratton (PCI) laura@polychemistry.com

Volunteer Coordinator

  • Colleen Scott (MS State) cscott@chemistry.msstate.edu

Nominations

  • Allan Guymon (University of Iowa) allan-guymon@uiowa.edu
  • Dawanne Poree (US Army Research Lab.) dawanne.e.poree.civ@army.mil
  • Laura Stratton (PCI) laura@polychemistry.com