Category: Conference
Malcolm Pruitt Award: Named after CCR’s founder, Dr. Malcolm E. Pruitt, then VP for Research for the Dow Chemical Company, the Pruitt award recognizes outstanding individual contributions to the progress of chemistry and chemical engineering by promotion of mutually beneficial interactions among universities, the chemical industry, and government.
Research Collaboration Award: CCR solicits team project "success stories" demonstrating that collaboration among chemical research sectors provides public benefit by bringing new technologies to market. Exemplary successes are recognized at CCR’s annual meeting with the Collaboration Research Award and posted on CCR’s website as models of excellence.
Diversity Award: This award recognizes an individual whose leadership has had a positive impact on advancement within chemistry-based sciences and engineering, minorities, women and underrepresented groups through recruitment, retention, mentoring and increasing access to research careers
At the ACS Annual Meeting in Boston, August 22, 2010, CCR will sponsor the Presidential Symposium entitled Translational Chemical R&D: The Driving Force for Job Creation. The first presentation will explore big picture trends in the chemical workforce and barriers to continued growth. The second set of presentations will focus on tools to translate R&D to commercialization. Examples include models for open collaboration, venture investment in spin-offs, and R&D centers or hubs.
Read more about these sessions.
Register and learn more about the ACS Fall 2010 Meeting in Boston, August 22-26.
The Final Report is now available from, "Assessing and Enhancing the Impact of R&D in the U.S. Chemical Sciences Workshop," sponsored by the National Science Foundation and The Council for Chemical Research, was held in Arlington, VA on November 16 & 17, 2009. The workshop brought together academic scholars and industry experts to discuss the state of knowledge about the impact of science R&D in the United States, focusing on chemical sciences and related industries. View the meeting agenda and presentations.
Speakers
Roger G. Harrison, PhD has 34 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. He has worked as a senior consultant with Plexus Ventures, LLC since January 2005. Prior to that he was CEO and President of Antares Pharma Inc. Most of his career, from 1972 to 2001, was spent with Eli Lilly and Company where he had leadership roles in research, product development, project management, regulatory affairs, and alliance management. Additionally he serves on the board of three companies, operating as chairperson for two of these. He has a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Leeds and postdoctoral experience at the University of Zurich.
Mark Matlock is Sr. VP for the ADM Research Division. He joined ADM as an analytical chemist and has held positions as manager of process development, laboratory manager of ADM BioProducts, director of food application, and vice president of business development. He received a BS in Chemistry from Millikin University and MS in Polymer Chemistry from the University of Akron. He is author or co-author of seven U.S. patents, two of which relate to an analytical instrument (OSI) that measures the oxidative stability of vegetable oils. He managed research that led to the introduction of trans free fats for margarines and shortenings via a novel enzymatic rearrangement technology.
Breakfast on your own
Beignets cannot be mass-produced, so dine in the hotel or take a quick 10 minute walk down to Café du Monde (800 Decatur St) for a real New Orleans Breakfast. (A hotel breakfast will be served to those going on the Habitat for Humanity work group.)
Free Time in New Orleans
- Habitat for Humanity
Here is an opportunity to take a small part in the rebuilding of NOLA. No skills or talent required – you will be shown what to do and provided with the proper tools. Companions definitely welcome – everyone must be at least 16 years of age. Get a little exercise after sitting in sessions Sunday and Monday – work up an appetite for the Pruitt banquet. Box lunches will be provided. You will be back in time for the 4:00 p.m. afternoon session.
- The World War II National Museum
Founded in 1990 by Historian Stephen Ambrose, the museum opened in 2000. It provides a comprehensive view of all fronts, and houses a world famous collection of World War II artifacts. The museum is a 12 block walk from the hotel, so collect a few friends and pay a self guided visit to the museum – entry fee $14 per person.
- Jean Lafitte Park Tour
The Barataria Preserve (in Marrero) interprets the natural and cultural history of the uplands, swamps, and marshlands of the region. Take a ranger – led tour and look for exotic plants and critters of all kinds.
Networking
Lunch on your own
Presentations on Sustainable Feedstocks Ballroom
Managing Successful Sustainable Feedstock Collaborations Ballroom
Chair: Wayne Ranbom (ARKEMA, Inc)
Plenary speakers will provide perspective on:
Creating Sustainable Feedstock Collaborations
Chair: K.T. Valsaraj (Louisiana State University)
Plenary speakers will provide perspective on collaborative research on biofeed-stocks, experience
with such efforts, and the engineering aspects of biofuel
production.
- Innovation and Sustainability: Nance Dicciani (CEO, Honeywell Specialty Materials)
- A Heartland View of Collaborative Research in Biorenewables: Brent Shanks (Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University)
- Experentia Docet: Lessons Learned: Tyler Thompson (Research Partnership Leader, The Dow Chemical Company)
- Catalytic Production of Liquid Fuels and Chemicals from Biomass-derived Oxygenated
- Hydrocarbons: James Dumesic (Professor, Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Wisconsin)
Breakout Sessions
1. Assembling [Creating] Collaborations
Leader: Dady Dadyburjor (RC-AN)
This breakout session will discuss best practices for finding collaboration partners and negotiating the deal. Tapping into the experience base of all three CCR sectors, participants will share strategies and approaches that have worked for them. The goal is to enable participants to move rapidly and successfully from identifying the need to collaborate to establishing the collaboration.
2.a. Development of a Longitudinal Survey for Chemistry Graduate Education
Leaders: Rommie Amaro, Charles Manke, William Olbricht (GE-AN)
The goal of this breakout session is to identify a set of overarching topics and questions about chemistry graduate education that would be of interest to departments nationwide. The Graduate Education Action Network will develop and distribute a longitudinal survey based on the outcomes of the discussion.
Reps' Workshop: Building Strong Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Departments through Effective Leadership
This short course will focus on how department chairs can be effective change agents in their departments and institutions, with a particular focus on making progress in increasing the gender diversity of our faculty, building on the goals identified in the Gender Equity Workshop for Chemistry Department Chairs that was held in January 2006. Facilitators: Barbara Butterfield (Chief Human Resource Officer for Academic and Staff Human Resources and Affirmative Action, University of Michigan) and Jane Tucker (Senior Manager, Sap - Administration Systems Management Group, Duke University)
Reps' Meetings
- Chemistry (led by Paul Hopkins, Univ. of Washington & Matthew Sanders,
University of Wisconsin)
- Chemical Engineering (led by Mark McCready, University of Notre Dame)
- Industry (led by Susan Butts, Dow Chemical Co.)
- Government Labs (led by Ellyn Beary, NIST)
Impact of Katrina on New Orleans
Special technical presentation of the environmental impacts of Hurricane Katrina by Prof. Steve Nelson (Chair, Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Tulane Univ.)
First Timers Reception
