For an outline of the POLY Org Chart, please see: POLY Org Chart
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![]() | ChairDerek Patton |
![]() | Chair ElectHaley Brown |
![]() | Vice ChairErik Berda |
![]() | SecretaryTayler Hebner |
TreasurerJohn Matson | |
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Member-at-LargePiril Ertem |
CouncilorsBrian Long Mary Ann Meador Greg Tew Kathryn Uhrich | Alternate CouncilorsDanniebelle Haase Colleen Scott Yoan Simon Caroline Szczepanski |
Past ChairLaura Stratton | Past-Past ChairDawanne Poree |
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




