leading building product manu-
facturers chosen for a two-month
pilot program to test and im-
prove the draft Health Product
standard, it will be held in the public do-
main, with its use intended to be freely li-
censed to all.
The project organizers are providing a reference guide, webinars and technical collaboration, with the goal of refining the
HPD open standard into a simple, uniform
tool for conveying useful information. Participating companies will also receive support from the Pharos Project, an online
resource that maintains a chemical and material library to facilitate transparency in the
building materials industries.
“We’re pleased to be included with
other green pioneers in the building in-
AkzoNobel North America Science Award
launched with American Chemical Society
More than 300,000 different metals, plastics, coatings, cements and
other forms of material create the important underpinnings of our
modern society. In recognition of the vital role that scientists at universities and other research institutions play in advancing chemistry
and material sciences research, AkzoNobel, in collaboration with the
American Chemical Society (ACS), launched a major new science
award at a meeting of the ACS.
The new biennial AkzoNobel North America Science Award aims to
recognize outstanding scientific contributions by an individual in the
fields of chemistry and materials research conducted in the United
States or Canada. The award winner, to be announced in February
2013, will receive a $75,000 cash prize honoring their achievements.
The call for nominations will be conducted online at the ACS website— www.akzonobel.acs.org—and will be open from March 28, 2012
through June 22, 2012.
While AkzoNobel will provide the funding, nomination guidelines
and the scope of the areas of science covered by the award, the ACS
will have an independent role in administering the award process and
selecting the AkzoNobel North America Science Award recipient.
A presentation of the 2013 AkzoNobel North America Science
Award will be made at the ACS’s 245th National Meeting & Exposition held April 7-11, 2013 in New Orleans, La., United States, where
the ACS typically recognizes more than 60 scientists and engineers
with 56 of its national awards.
“Materials are the substances that make up everything in the world
that we use, touch, see and experience in everyday life,” said Bassam
Z. Shahashiri, Ph.D., ACS’ 2012 president. “Research in materials sci-
ence has triggered creative waves of invention and innovation, and
prompted technological breakthroughs that once were inconceivable.
AkzoNobel’s generosity and foresight will recognize those achieve-
ments and foster further progress in the years ahead.”
The AkzoNobel Science Award was first bestowed in the Nether-
lands in 1970, and then extended to Sweden (1999), China (2010) and
the United Kingdom (2012). Now it is being further extended to North
America with an award in 2013.
”For more than 40 years, the AkzoNobel Science Award has rec-
ognized individuals for their innovative
contributions to scientific research,”
said Dale Steichen, vice president of re-
search, development and innovation
for AkzoNobel in North America.” We
are proud to now bring this award to
North America and honor those who
are undertaking big, bold research that may help deliver tomorrow’s
answers today.”
Guided by the principles and practices of sustainable chemistry, the
AkzoNobel North America Science Award is bestowed for scientific re-
search with proven or potential significant societal or user benefits in
one of the following fields of chemistry or materials science:
• The design and development of new routes for the synthesis and
transformation of molecules (including monomers, oligomers and poly-
mers); methods for their assembly into macromolecular structures; the
modification and functionalization of polymers; and the understanding
and control of the composition, architecture, stereochemistry and func-
tionality of macromolecular systems;
A call for nominations will be issued biennially in Chemical & Engineering News, ACS’s weekly news magazine, on the ACS website
at www.akzonobel.acs.org, and through the relevant ACS technical
divisions.
For more information, visit www.akzonobel.com/scienceawards.
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