Joint with the University of Chicago Department of Chemistry -------------- The Julius Stieglitz Award Lecture |
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Speaker: | Patrick R. Gruber, Ph.D.
Vice President and CTO Cargill Dow, LLC |
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Topic: | " Polymers from Renewable Resources -- No Longer a Field of Dreams " |
Abstract:
Polymers and advanced material really can be made and commercialized successfully when starting from renewable resources. In order to be successful a shift in thinking is required. The combination of modern biotechnology and chemical processing has opened whole new avenues of what is possible. These advances are enabling a new echelon of green chemistry and materials with improved sustainability having impact reaching from farmers to consumers.
Biography: Dr. Patrick Gruber is the vice president and chief technology officer, Cargill Dow LLC. Gruber has served in his current position since the company's inception in 1997.
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Date:  Friday, November 22, 2002
Location:   | Manzo's Banquets 1571 South Elmhurst Road Des Plaines, IL 60018 847-593-2233 |
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Cost:  $28.00 for members of ACS/ $30.00 for non-members/ $14.00 for students
Reservations:   (847) 647-8405
                    by noon, Tuesday, November 19
or,   REGISTER ON LINE !Please honor your reservations. We must pay for all dinners ordered. No-shows will be billed.
From the East: Take I-90 west. Exit Elmhurst Rd North. Go past first light (Oakton St.). The banquet hall is on your right.From the West: Take I-90 east. Exit Arlington Heights Rd. Turn right. Turn right. Go to Higgins Rd. (Rt. 72). Turn left. Take Higgins to Oakton St. Turn left. Go to Elmhurst Rd. Turn left. The banquet hall is on your right.
From the North: Take 294 south to I-90 west. Exit Elmhurst Rd. North. Go past first light (Oakton St.). The banquet hall is on your right.
From the South: Take 294 North to I-90 west. Exit Elmhurst Rd. North. Go past first light (Oakton St.). The banquet hall is on your right. Another way from the South is to take I-355 North to I-90 east. Exit Arlington Heights Rd. Turn right and go to Elmhurst Rd. Turn left. The banquet hall is on your right.
PARKING: Free
Dinner:
Fresh Onion Soup
Garden Salad with choice of dressing
Entrée choices of Orange Roughy, New York Strip Steak, or Pasta Primavera
rolls and butter
Spumoni ice cream