American Chemical Society, Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) announces Associate Professor Adrianne Rosales the winner of the Arthur K. Doolittle Award from the Spring 2025 ACS meeting. The award recognizes 'the most exceptional talk' presented during the PMSE symposium, and is awarded through each fall and spring ACS National Meeting.
Her presentation "Building hierarchical structure into hydrogels for engineered extracellular matrices," was recognized by ACS PMSE Division online for its originality, impact, and advancement of new concepts in polymeric materials.
Adrianne is a co-lead of the Interdisciplinary Research Group “Fuel-Driven Pluripotent Materials” in UT Austin’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. She received her B.S. in chemical engineering from UT Austin, 2007, and obtained her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from UC-Berkeley. After completing her Ph.D. in 2013, she trained at the University of Colorado Boulder as an NIH NRSA post-doctoral fellow.
Adrianne’s group at UT Austin focuses on the development of bioinspired polymeric materials to model cellular microenvironments and engineer therapeutic technologies. This work has been supported by a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interfaces, an NIH Early Stage Investigators Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award, and an NSF CAREER Award. This work has also been recognized by an ACS PMSE Early Investigator Award, a 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, and the journal ACS Polymers Au.
Associate Professor Nate Lynd was recognized in 2018 for his talk, "“Mono(µ-oxo)-dialuminum (MOD) initiated polymerization of epoxides to new functional materials”."
Adapted from original article: American Chemical Society, Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (ACS Division of PMSE)
