Fall 2020 OLY NEWSLETTER American Chemical Society Division of Polymer Chemistry, Inc. Wow! In January I was looking forward to my year as POLY Chair, planning to focus on ways to enhance POLY programming at National Meetings, expand our presence at...
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Fall 2020 OLY NEWSLETTER American Chemical Society Division of Polymer Chemistry, Inc. Wow! In January I was looking forward to my year as POLY Chair, planning to focus on ways to enhance POLY programming at National Meetings, expand our presence at Regional Meetings, and build upon our Webinars 2020 POLY Chair and Webshops to reach more members. I felt then and still feel that these are important because of their potential to help POLY members advance in their careers. Michael Meador While we have made progress in these areas, more pressing challenges related to coronavirus really upended our operations. Events of this past year have highlighted a number of challenges facing ACS and made it clear we have a lot of work to do. ACS is addressing the challenges of operating in a virtual world, as well as issues of racial and social injustice, to Inside make ACS a more diverse, inclusive and respectful organization. I wanted to share my thoughts on these topics, relevant, current and plann
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