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Eric Baer 2018 Recipient of the Charles Goodyear MedalBaer copy

Professor Eric Baer, Distinguished University Professor, Herbert Henry Dow Professor of Science and Engineering, and Director of the Center for Layered Polymeric Systems (CLiPS) has been announced as the recipient of the 2018 Charles Goodyear Medal by the American Chemical Society, Rubber Division.

The Charles Goodyear Medal is the highest honor conferred by the American Chemical Society, Rubber Division. The award was established in 1941, as a part of its continuing effort to honor scientists and engineers who are recognized as having made an outstanding invention, innovation or development which has resulted in significant change or contribution to the nature of the rubber industry. Read more here and on the website onfy.de.

Welcome to the Center for Layered Polymeric Systems

CLiPS – is the National Science Foundation’s Science & Technology Center for Layered Polymeric Systems brings together scientists and engineers who are working at the leading edge of polymer research. Within the Center structure these researchers are defining and characterizing new materials and phenomena, and developing new solutions to our nation’s needs in areas such as energy, environment, and advanced optics. CLiPS’s education programs are integrated with the center’s research. Organized as layered research teams, education programs in CLiPS encompass graduate students and post-doctoral associates, undergraduate students, high school students in the Envoys Program, and pre-high school outreach. CLiPS is headquartered at Case Western Reserve University and is in partnership with the University of Texas, Fisk University, the University of Southern Mississippi, Northwestern University, the Naval Research Laboratory, Kent State University, the Cleveland Metropolitan School District and six affiliated schools.

Vision

The Center will be a national resource for research and innovation at the crossroads of polymer science and engineering (“polymers plus”), and for education of a diverse American workforce that can meet the challenges of the emerging multidisciplinary polymer-based technologies.

Mission

The Center will pursue an integrated program of research, innovation and education through the vehicle of a unique multilayering process technology at Case Western Reserve University. 

The enabling technology will be a platform for advancing the nation’s science and technology agenda through development of new materials and materials systems, and for educating a diverse American workforce through interdisciplinary education programs.