For an outline of the POLY Org Chart, please see: POLY Org Chart
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ChairAllan Guymon |
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Chair ElectDawanne Poree |
Vice Chair |
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SecretaryJustin Kennemur |
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TreasurerChristine Coltrain |
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Member-at-Large |
CouncilorsKathryn Beers Mary Ann Meador Greg Tew Kathryn Uhrich |
Alternate CouncilorsPhilip Costanzo Brian Long Yoan Simon |
Past Chair |
Past-Past Chair |
POLY Division Committee List
Industrial Advisory Board
- Chair: Haley Brown (Dow) hbrown1@dow.com
- Vice Chair: Jeffrey Ting (Nanitebio) jeff@nanitebio.com
International Relations
- Chair: Rigoberto Advincula (UT and ORNL) radvincu@utk.edu
- Co-Chair: Wei Gao (Dow) 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@navy.mil
Awards
- Chair: Alan Hopkins (The Aerospace Corp.) alan.r.hopkins@aero.com
- Haley Brown (Dow) hbrown1@dow.com
- Toby Nelson (Oklahoma State Univ.) toby.nelson@okstate.edu
- Poster Award Co-Chairs: Piril Ertem, pertem@surmodics.com and Xiangyi Zhang, xzhang16@dow.com
Programming Committee for National Meetings
- Chair: Sara Orski (NIST) sara.orski@nist.gov
- Robert Mathers (Penn State – New Kensington) rtm11@psu.edu
- Levi Moore (AFRL) levimjmoore@gmail.com
- Danniebelle Haase (Dow) DHaase@dow.com
- POLY Business Office Liaison: Kathy Mitchem kathyl@vt.edu
- POLY ExComm Liaison: Allan Guymon allan-guymon@uiowa.edu
Workshops
- Chair: Marc Hillmyer (Univ. of Minnesota) hillmyer@umn.edu
- Rigoberto Advincula (UT and ORNL) radvincu@utk.edu
- Elizabeth Elacqua (Penn State Univ.) eze31@psu.edu
- Mike Hickner (Penn State Univ.) mah49@psu.edu
- Joe Mabry (AFRL) joseph.mabry@us.af.mil
- Jena McCollum (Univ. of Colorado Springs) jmccollu@uccs.edu
- Rakesh Nambiar (DuPont)
- Yongping Zha (Sun Chemical)
- Webshops – Executive Producer: Dominik Konkolewicz (Miami Univ.) d.konkolewicz@miamioh.edu
Regional Meetings
- Mark Dadmun (UT Knoxville) dad@utk.edu
Nomenclature
- (Open)
Business Office
- Carlee Black carleel@vt.edu
- Kathy Mitchem kathyl@vt.edu
Membership
- Chair: Yoan Simon (USM) Yoan.Simon@usm.edu
- Mark Grinstaff (BU) mgrin@bu.edu
- Will Gutekunst (Georgia Tech) will.gute@chemistry.gatech.edu
- Brian Long (UT Knoxville) long@utk.edu
- Colleen Scott (Mississippi State Univ.) cscott@chemistry.msstate.edu
Publicity
- Chair: Emily Pentzer (TAMU) emilypentzer@tamu.edu
- POLY Website: Coralie Backlund (DOE) backlunc@gmail.com
Webinars
- Chair: Tomonori Saito (ORNL/UT Knoxville) saitot@ornl.gov
- Rebecca Olson (Goodyear) rebecca_olson@goodyear.com
- Brent Sumerlin (Univ. 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: Elizabeth Bright (3M) ebright@mmm.com
- PMSE Representative: Daniel Savin (Univ. of Florida) savin@chem.ufl.edu
POLY List
- Frank Blum (Oklahoma State Univ.) fblum@okstate.edu
Bylaws and Operations
- Diana Gerbi (3M – Retired) dgerbi733@gmail.com
Nominations
- Semra Colak-Atan (3M Company) scolak@mmm.com
- Andrea Kasko (UCLA) akasko@g.ucla.edu