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(April 30, 2009) Each year, MII with finding from Industry, sponsored 11 travel awards. The award is for $750 to assist in defraying the expenses incurred during attendance at at National Meeting. Upon the student's return, Within one month of their return from the conference, the students must forward their name, copy of their abstract, a copy of their full technical paper (if available), a copy of their poster/presentation (if available) and a copy of their current resume, as well as a brief trip report identifying the conference you attended, with feedback on how their work was received as well as a summary of the important highlights from the conference. These are forwarded to the company for review.

The recipients of the 2008-2009 Chevron-Phillips Chemical Professional Excellence Travel Awards are:

1.	Jianbo Hou Advisor: L. Madsen Dept. of Chemistry	Diffusion and Anisotropy in Ionic Polymer Membranes Using NMR	Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference , Pacific Grove, CA March 29-April 3, 2009
2.	Dakai Ren Advisor: C. Frazier Dept. of Wood Science and Forest Products	Curing and Morphological Studies of Moisture-cure Polyurethane Wood Adhesives within the Bondline	238^th ACS National Meeting (DC) August 16-20, 2009
3.	Jenni Popp Advisor: A. Goldstein Dept. of Chemical Eng.	Comparison of Soluble and Insoluble Calcium Phosphate Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering Applications	55^th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society (NV) February 22-25, 2009
4.	Gregorio M. Velez-Garcia Advisors: P. Wapperom & D. Baird Dept. of Chemical Eng.	Frontal Flow Effects in 2-D Simulations of Orientation in High Aspect Ratio Particles Composites Made by Injection Modeling	AIChE National Meeting (PA) November 16-21, 2008
5.	Carter Fox Advisor: K. Edgar Dept. of Wood Science and Forest Products	Regioselective Carbonylation of Cellulose at the 6-carbon	237^th ACS Meeting (UT) March 22-26, 2009
6.	Jong K. Park Advisor: R. Moore Dept. of Chemistry	The Crystalline Component in Fuel Cell Membranes	237^th ACS Meeting (UT) March 22-26, 2009
7.	LaShonda Cureton Advisor: R. Turner Dept. of Chemistry	Tough, Transparent, and Impact Resistant Segmented Block Copolymers	238^th ACS Meeting (DC) August 16-20, 2009
8.	Rachael VanHouten Advisor: J. McGrath Dept. of Chemistry	Synthesis and Characterization of Hydrophilic: Hydrophobic Block Copolymers for Proton Exchange Membranes in Fuel Cells	2009 Advanced in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells (CA) February 15-18, 2009
9.	Phil Huffstetler Advisor: Judy Riffle Dept. of Chemistry	Influence of Molecular Structure and Chemical Composition of Amphiphilic Polyethers on Transverse NMR Relaxivities	Polymers in Medicine and Biology (CA) June 14-17, 2009
10.	Joshua M. Bryson Advisor: T. Reineke Dept. of Chemistry	Tracking Nucleic Acid Delivery with the Help of Lanthanide Containing Polymers	237^th ACS Meeting (UT) March 22-26, 2009