The students below were presented with the following departmental travel award at the March 3, 2017, seminar.

James R. Durig Graduate Student Travel Award

• Mitra Ganewatta, a member of Prof. Chuanbing Tang's group, will present his work at the 253rd ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, CA, April 2-6, 2017 at the 13th Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium.  The title of his talk, "Sustainable Antimicrobial Biomaterials and Biobased Plastics from Natural Biomass."
  
  
• Yucheng Huang, a member of Prof. Brian Benicewicz's group, will present his work at the 253rd ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, CA, April 2-6, 2017. The title of his oral presentation, "Tunable Photonic Nanocomposite Film Formed by Gelation of Self-ssembled Block Copolymer."
  
  
• Preecha Kittikhunnatham, a member of Prof. Andrew Greytak's group, will present his work at the 253rd ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, California, April 2-6, 2017.  The title of his poster presentation, "Polarization Anisotropy Measurements for Determining the Arrangement of Guest Molecules in a Self-assembled bis-urea Macrocycle Host."
  
  
• Md Anisur Rahman, a member of Prof. Chuanbing Tang's group, will present his work at the American Physical Society ( APS) in New Orleans, LA, March 13-17, 2017.  The title of his oral presentation, "Renewable Pentablock Copolymers Containing Bulky Natural Rosin for Tough Bioplastics."
  
  
• Amrita Sarkar, a member of Prof. Morgan Stefik's group, will present her work at the 253rd ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, CA, April 2-6, 2017.  The titles of her presentations, "Robust Porous Polymers Enabled by Rapid TFA-etch with Improved Selectivity for Polylactide," and "Synthesis and Fabrication of Persistent Micelle Templates (PMT) in a Single Day."
  
  
• Yang Zheng, a member of Prof. Brian Benicewicz's group, will present his work at the 253rd ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, CA, April 2-6, 2017. The title of his oral presentation, "One-pot Synthesis of Inorganic Nanoparticle Vesicles via Surface-initiated Polymerization-induced Self-assembly."