Marinda Wu, a past president of the ACS and the creator of this award (center), presents the P3 award to Jane Frommer (representing SVACS, left) and Mikki Larner (representing GGPF, right)
GGPF and SVACS won the special Partners for Progress and Prosperity (P3) Award at the ACS Western Regional Meeting, held in San Jose October 25-28. This award recognizes exemplary collaborations between two or more entities within the chemical sciences community.
Established in 2015, the Silicon Valley ACS–Golden Gate Polymer Forum partnership has provided a local opportunity to connect chemists and polymer scientists from a broad range of work. The eleventh year of successful annual seminars was marked on May 14, 2025 with the presentation of Polymers for Capacitors, Transistors, and Fun by Dr. Yi Liu of the Molecular Foundry & Lawrence Berkeley National Labs. Every year a topic is chosen for our joint seminar that appeals to the partnering scientific organizations’ areas of expertise.