Eligible posters must be included in the Sci-Mix at national ACS meetings (see below for details)
The POLY Outstanding Poster Award was established to increase the importance and visibility of posters being presented at ACS National Meetings in the POLY section. It is recognized that a great deal of work goes into preparing and presenting a high-quality poster. POLY wishes to acknowledge and reward such efforts. The award is presented at the POLY/PMSE award event on Wednesday evening of ACS National Meetings. Up to 3 awards may be made at each meeting.
Award: Awardees will receive a certificate and $250. The award shall be granted to an individual without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, or sexual orientation.
Eligibility: Poster presenters must be current PhD students, postdocs, or industrial scientists at equivalent levels. To be eligible for the award, select “Consider for Sci-Mix” during abstract submission through the MAPS system. Sci-Mix is a meeting-wide poster event held Monday and includes posters from all divisions; presenters participate in Sci-Mix in addition to the poster session in their division. Alternatively, symposia organizers may nominate “best posters” from those submitted to be included in Sci-Mix, at discretion of organizers (and not to exceed 10% of all poster submissions). Eligible posters will then be judged during the Sci-Mix poster session at the national ACS meeting. Winners selected based on their contribution to the work, the quality and impact of their research, and their poster presentation, and communication skills.
Poster Award Co-Chairs: Nicholas VanZee (Hoya), Nicholas.VanZee@hoya.com and Rohit Gupta (3M), rgupta@mmm.com
| 2025 Spring | Stella Meng Luo – California Institute of Technology Mark McCrary – Virginia Tech Tejas Shah – University of Texas at Dallas |
| 2024 Fall | Riya Joshi – University of Denver Wonki Lim – Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology Himanshu Polara – University of Texas at Dallas |
| 2024 Spring | Jared Bowman – University of Florida Bradley A Swan and Laura Lo – Iowa State University Arsalaan Nisar Pathan – University of Akron |
| 2023 Fall | Nicodemo Ciccia – University of California Berkeley Takumi Yamamoto – Tokyo Institute of Technology Anna Maker-Limanov – Stanford University |
| 2023 Spring | Dhananjay Dileep – Iowa State Kevin Nixon – Texas A&M University Keaton Turney – University of Akron |
| 2022 Fall | Nicholas Boynton – University of Chicago Kaden Stevens – University of Chicago Vivian Zhang – Northwestern University |
| 2022 Spring | Christopher Brown – MIT Neil Rosenfeld – Texas A&M University Kayla Storme – MIT |
| 2021 Fall | Archana Bansode – Auburn University Sheng Li – University of Toronto Gustavo Munoz – Mississippi State University |
| 2021 Spring | Rosalie Berg – University of Houston Sharabana Sakar – Indian Institute of Technology Julia Smith – University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 2020 Fall | Jerika Chiong – Stanford Shashini Diwakara – University of Texas, Dallas Xue Liu – Technical University of Denmark |
| 2019 Fall | Shailja Goyal – Iowa State Stefan Huber – University of Konstanz Travis Varner – UNC Chapel Hill |
| 2019 Spring | Philip Scott – Virginia Tech Dylan Walsh – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Bryan Sutherland – University of Delaware |
| 2018 Fall | Clair Armstrong- University of Liverpool Anjeza Beharaj- Boston University Jeffrey Allan Kehl- Boston College Harry L. van der Laan- University of Michigan |
| 2018 Spring | Yuwei Gu – MIT Chad Gilmer – University of Iowa |
| 2017 Fall | Cheng Fang Phillip Pickett Mingtao Chen |
| 2017 Spring | Allegra Liberman-Martin Xiao Song Can |
| 2016 Fall | Jacob N. Lockhart Crystal Niermann Mitra Ganewatta |
| 2016 Spring | Jawaher Alfurhood April Fogel Neil Dolinski Travor Schumacher |
| 2015 Fall | Ben Cherniawski Kevin Drummey John Fennell |
| 2015 Spring | Dahlia Amato Nicholas Godman |
| 2014 Fall | Patrizia P. Smith Jamie M. Messman |
| 2014 Spring | Amanda Cain Keith Johnson |
| 2013 Fall | E. Barrios N. Stebbins |
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