The RACI Polymer Division is currently receiving nominations for the David Sangster Polymer Science and Technology Achievement Award. The deadline for applications is the 24th of June 2022, as the division would like to present the award at the Pacific Polymer Congress (PPC17), to be held in Brisbane from 11-14 December 2022. The Sangster Award…
Dr Graeme Moad has been awarded the Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in the 2022 Australia Day Honours List. This is the highest honour given in the Order of Australia Honours and Awards. Graeme’s award was for “eminent service to science, particularly polymer design and synthesis and radical polymerization, education through mentoring, and to professional scientific organisations.”…
37th APS Summary by Dr Nathan Boase (Queensland University of Technology) It was a hot and smoky day on the 10th of November, but despite the fires surrounding the area everyone was excited for the start of the 37th Australasian Polymer Symposium on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Despite the weather, the delegates were greeted…
36th APS: The wrap up by Anna Gemmell (PhD Student, University of Queensland) On Sunday November 20th the 36th Australiasian Polymer Symposium began in Lorne. From our arrival at Melbourne airport we piled into a bus and were transported to gorgeous ocean views as we made our way along the Great Ocean Road. Around 300…
The RACI Centenary Congress, to be held from 23rd-28th July 2017 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, will bring together several thousand delegates from across the breadth of the chemical sciences and technologies. The Congress will encompass the RACI National Centenary Conference, which will feature 2 parallel sessions of Polymer Division programming running over 4…
