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Poornima Padmanabhan, assistant professor of chemical engineering, is a 2024 American Chemical Society Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Early Investigator awardee. A symposium highlighting the work of this year’s awardees, a collective group of professors, government researchers, and industry scientists across the field of polymer science, will be held at the 2024 Fall ACS National Meeting in Denver.
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