Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York Spring Symposium

The Catal­y­sis Soci­ety of Met­ro­pol­i­tan New York recent­ly host­ed its 2026 Spring Sym­po­sium at NYU. The sym­po­sium fea­tured sev­er­al won­der­ful talks from indus­try and acad­e­mia, led by a keynote from Prof. Umit Ozkan (Ohio State Uni­ver­si­ty). Speak­ers included
Prof. Gina Noh (Penn­syl­va­nia State University)
Prof. Sid­darth Krish­na (Uni­ver­si­ty of Wis­con­sin — Madison)
Prof. George Tsilomelekis (Rut­gers University)
Prof. Made­lyn Ball (Michi­gan State University)
Prof. Ana­toly Frenkel (Stony Brook University)
Dr. Aman­da Bax­ter (Turnover Labs)
Dr. Patrick Sarv­er (Sora Fuel)
Dr. Karin Calv­in­ho (RenewCO2)

We’d also like to con­grat­u­late our poster com­pe­ti­tion winners:
First Place: James Tret­tin (PI: Michele Sarazen, Prince­ton University)
Sec­ond Place: Han­nah Snider (PI: Mar­cel­la Lusar­di, Prince­ton University)
Third Place: Mar­cus Yu (PI: Jing­guang Chen, Colum­bia University)
Post­doc Win­ner: Dr. Yiteng Zheng (PI: Bruce E. Koel, Prince­ton University)
Hon­or­able Men­tion: Kel­by Ander­son (PI: Lea Win­ter, Yale University)

The CSNY offi­cers and mem­bers are grate­ful to our spon­sors NYU, Malvern Pan­a­lyt­i­cal, Air­co, Exxon, and NACS for sup­port­ing a great day con­nect­ing with our catal­y­sis community!