March 17, 2009

Professor Waymouth receives the Cooperative Research Award in Polymer Science and Engineering

Professor Robert Waymouth of Stanford University and Dr. James Hedrick of IBM Almaden Research Laboratories were recently selected for the Cooperative Research Award in Polymer Science and Engineering, presented by the American Chemical Society's (ACS) Division of Polymeric Materials. This award is unique, relevant and timely to today's research environment as it recognizes sustained, intensive cooperative research between academic and industrial scientists. It was awarded to Waymouth and Hedrick for their productive and creative collaborative efforts on the development of new catalysts for polymer synthesis, an area of significant importance to polymer science and technology. The award will be presented at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Salt Lake City at a symposium in their honor on March 22, 2009.