Rubber Mini Expo Housing & Registration Now OPEN

  

(The host hotel is the Marriott)

This October 14-16 join us for the Rubber Mini Expo and 174th Technical Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky.

Symposia topics include Advances in Nanotechnology, Elastomeric Materials: Challenges in Pharmaceutical/Biomedical Applications, NHTSA Tire Research, and Rubber Recycling. The meeting will also feature the 5th Annual Student Colloquium of oral and poster presentations from college and university students around the world.

Four seminars will also be held: Introduction to Rubber Technology, Fundamentals of Rubber Compounding, The Rules & Regulations of Workplace Safety and OSHA Understanding, Interpreting and Complying with the Law, and Practical Viscoelasticity.

2008 General Elections

On June 30th, General Elections are open for all Rubber Division Members/Affiliates. An email containing the required registration codes went out June 30th to all those with an active email in our database. Paper ballots were mailed to those who do not have an active email in our database.

General Elections will close August 31st.

Rubber Band Contest

The Rubber Division, ACS with The Akron Global Polymer Academy and The University of Akron is hosting the first-ever Rubber Band Contest for Young Inventors. Students (grades 5-8), with the help of a teacher or mentor from the Rubber Industry, can demonstrate their ingenuity by creating an invention that incorporates the use of rubber bands. More than $20,000 in prizes will be awarded! For all the details visit Rubberbandcontest.org.

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IRSHF Selection Committee Choses R. S. Rivlin

The 2008 International Rubber Science Hall of Fame selection committee met on Friday, April 18, 2008. The committee selected Professor Ronald S. Rivlin (1915-2005) to be inducted into the International Rubber Science Hall of Fame at the 50th Anniversary celebration on Thursday, November 6, 2008. The program will be sent out later this summer. Read more about Professor Rivlin's life.

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5th Annual Student Colloquium Call for Abstracts

The Rubber Division is now accepting abstracts from college and university graduate and undergraduate students in the fields of rubber, polymers, elatomers and plastics for the 5th Annual Student Colloquium on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, in Louisville, Kentucky, during the 174th Technical Meeting and Rubber Mini Expo. To download the call for abstracts and view past participation information, visit the Student Colloquium page.

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Rubber Division 100-Year Anniversary

Visit the 100-Year Anniversary page for information relating to the ongoing celebration of our centennial, like the book Hank Inman is writing for us to launch in 2009. Are you interested in sponsoring our 100-Year Anniversary? Benefits include recognition at 2009 events and in the new book as well as media attention, among other things. Click here for more information on our Centennial Sponsorship .

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Best Paper & Symposium Awards from the 172nd Technical Meeting

The Best Paper Committee of the Rubber Division, ACS is pleased to announce the Best Paper & Symposium Awards from the 172nd Technical Meeting held October 16-18, 2007 in Cleveland, Ohio. The winners are listed below.

Best Paper Award:

Paper #118

Anionic Synthesis of Trialkoxysilyl-Functionalized Polymers

by Roderic P. Quirk and Manuela Ocampo, Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio.

Best Symposium Award:

Aging, Degradation and Stabilization of Rubber and Plastics

Chaired by Vipin M. Kothari, Thermo-O-Link, Inc.

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