The 2026 KINGFA Young Investigator Award goes to Dr Erlantz Lizundia, Full Professor at the Bilbao School of Engineering, University of the Basque Country. He obtained his PhD in Advanced Materials Engineering in 2011 at the University of the Basque Country, and did two Postdoctoral stays at the University of the British Columbia (2016) and
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The International Glycoconjugate Organization (IGO) is accepting nominations of glycoscientists who have clearly advanced the field of glycoscience and show promise of continuing advancements. The award (US$4,000) will be presented at the 28th International Symposium on Glycoconjugates (Glyco28) scheduled at Makuhari, Chiba (Japan) on August 1st-6th, 2027. The awardee will present his/her accomplishments at Glyco28. Furthermore, Free registration,
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The CELL Division would like to congratulate Kevin Edgar, a professor in the Department of Sustainable Biomaterials and associate dean of the Graduate School at Virginia Tech, also a long time member and councillor of the ACS CELL Division, has been elected as AAAS Fellow for his contribution “…to the chemistry and engineering of polysaccharides,
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Dr Antje Potthast, Full Professor at the Institute of Chemistry of Renewable Resources at the Department of Natural Sciences and Sustainable Resources of BOKU University in Vienna, Austria is the recipient of the 2026 Anselme Payen award! She is the Deputy Director of the Institute, serves as the Scientific Head of the BOKU Core Facility
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As usual, we have an amazingly talented pool of 20 candidates for the 2026 CELL Division Graduate Student Award and the selection was tough. After long deliberation and discussion among our judges, they have narrowed down two candidates from the pool. The first place goes to Anna Lehrhofer from BOKU University (University of Natural Resources
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Congratulations to Maria Soledad Peresin and Scott Renneckar on being named ACS CELL Division Fellows. Their sustained service and leadership in cellulose and renewable materials make this honour richly deserved. Sole had previously served as our Division’s Events Chair and played a key role in growing and diversifying our social programming, especially the Division’s Awards
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The 2025 KINGFA Young Investigator Award goes to Dr Tian Li, Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University. She obtained her PhD from the University of Maryland and stayed on as a postdoctoral researcher at the same university prior to joining Purdue University as a faculty member. Her research focuses on advancing
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This year, 36 members of the American Chemical Society (ACS) are honoured for their contributions to science. Please join me in congratulating two esteemed members of our division: Dr. Steve Eichhorn, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Bristol, and Dr. Liangbing Hu, Carol and Douglas Melamed Professor of Electrical and Computer
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