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2019 CHAS Awards Symposium

The 2019 CHAS Awards were presented at the San Diego National Meeting in August. The awardees and their presentation files are provided here

Ken Fivizzani was presented with the CHAS Lifetime Achievement Award. His presentation was entitled “Seeking the promised land of chemical safety”.

2019 CHAS Lifetime Achievement Award

Sammye Sigmann was presented with the Howard Fawcett Award. Her presentation was entitled “What Can We Learn from Lemony Snicket?”.

2019 CHAS Awards Symposium Howard Fawcett Award
2019 CHAS Awards Symposium Pitt Safety Stratus College and University Award

The University of Pittsburgh was presented with the SafetyStratus College and University Award. Their presentation was entitled “Safety-Culture Growth Catalyzed by an Undergraduate Laboratory Safety Course”

Harry Elston was presented with the Tillmans Skonik award. His presentation was entitled “Leading from the Front“.

2019 CHAS Awards Symposium Tillmanns-Skolnik Award

The final speaker was a guest invited by Sammye Sigmann, Stella Sommer. She spoke on “Rasmussen’s Risk Management Framework Applied to Academic Laboratory Safety”

2019 CHAS Awards Symposium Stella Sommer Invited Speaker Fresno State

CHAS Student Registration Award

Download the Nomination Application Form for this Award Here: [Click to Download CHAS Student Registration Award Application Form]

Statement of Award Purpose

This award is given to encourage student participation in CHAS programming at ACS national meetings.

Award Amount and Recognition

Reimbursement in the amount of full-conference registration fee (undergraduate, graduate, or pre-college teacher student rate, as applicable).

Description of Eligible Nominees

  1. Awardee must qualify for the undergraduate or graduate student or pre-college teacher registration fee.
  2. Awardee must be participating in a CHAS symposium or poster session as a speaker or poster presenter at an ACS national meeting.
  3. Awardee must submit the application form to the CHAS awards committee chair before the application deadline for the meeting in which they will be presenting. They will not receive the award check until they can provide a receipt for their meeting registration and confirm that their abstract has been accepted.
  4. Awards are granted on a first-come, first-served basis. Two awards will be given per ACS national meeting (spring and fall) for a total of four awards per year.

Eligible Sources of Nominations

  • Self-nomination
  • Request may be also submitted by anyone who is sponsoring a student’s registration and wishes to be reimbursed

Nominations sought for 2019 CHAS awards

The American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Health and Safety is seeking nominations for the division awards described below.  

More information about each of the awards can be found on the CHAS website at https://dchas.org/chas-award-nominations/

The deadline for nominations is December 1, 2018.  

All awardees will be notified by Spring 2019, and awards will be presented at the national ACS meeting in August, 2019.  Please direct all questions and submit nominations to the Awards Chair, Kimi Brown, at awards@dchas.org.

  • Tillmanns-Skolnik Award was established in 1984 to recognize and honor outstanding, long-term service to the Division of Chemical Health and Safety. Nominees must have been an active member of the division for at least five years and have shown, though personal effort, outstanding support for the realization of CHAS’s goals in Chemical Health and Safety.
  • The Lifetime Achievement Award from the ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety recognizes a lifetime of dedication and service to the American Chemical Society, the ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety, and the field of chemical health and safety.  The awardee will have shown support for the goals and activities of CHAS, the ACS, and the chemical health and safety community; and will have, through personal effort, helped CHAS and the ACS reach those goals.

Nanosafety and Awards Presentations at Boston National Meeting

Nanomaterials: Applications, Safety Considerations, & Implications for Human Health & the Environment

Role of the National Nanotechnology Initiative in the Safe and Responsible Development of Nanotechnology.
M. Meador

Nanotechnology: Where is it Today and is EHS a Part of Successful Commercialization.
C. Geraci

Back from the future: What nanotechnology can teach us about chemical safety today.
K. Kulinowski

CHAS Awards Symposium

Looking forward: Fifty years experience in chemical safety.
N. Langerman

Zooming out: The future of chemical-research health and safety through a wide-angle lens.
K. Brown

Innovation transforming lives through the power of clean water.
D. Schmidt

Yale’s Safety Advisor Model for Supporting and Integrating Safety into Research. P. Reinhardt

Fostering a culture of safety at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. C. Brennan, N. Eskew

Dow Lab Safety Academy: Lessons Learned & Future Opportunities.
L. Seiler

Howard Fawcett Chemical Health and Safety Award

Download the Nomination Application Form for this Award Here: [Click here to download the Howard Fawcett Nomination Form in Word format]

Statement of Award Purpose

The Howard Fawcett Chemical Health and Safety Award recognizes outstanding individual contributions to the field of Chemical Health and Safety.

Award Amount and Recognition

  • $500 Honorarium
  • Engraved plaque including name of recipient

The recipient of this award is expected to deliver a 15 – 20-minute presentation at the CHAS Awards Symposium at the ACS Fall national meeting in the year that they receive the award. The presentation may be on any topic related to chemical safety.

Description of Eligible Nominees

The award is to be granted for outstanding contributions in the field of chemical health and safety without regard to age, nationality, race, gender or race. Nominees are not required to be members of the Division of Chemical Health and Safety. An individual may be named as the nominee or an organization (company, department, etc.) may be named. If a team is nominated, an individual must be identified as the primary contact to represent the team.

One award is given per year.

Eligible Sources of Nominations

  • Any CHAS division member
  • Subordinate (student, employee, etc.)
  • Superior (supervisor, director, etc.)
  • Peer

Additional Information about this Award

In 1998, as a memorial, the CHAS Award was renamed the Howard H. Fawcett Chemical Health and Safety Award and is now known simply as the Howard Fawcett Award. It was originally supported, in part, by the Safety and Occupational Health Division of E.I. DuPont de Nemours, and by Jay A. Young.

More information about Howard Fawcett can be found here:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchas.2014.07.010

Howard Fawcett CHAS Award Recipients

2022: Dr. Susan Silbey,  Professor of Humanities, Sociology and Anthropology, MIT

2021: Robert Toreki, Ph.D., Interactive Learning Paradigms, Incorporated (ILPI)
2020: David Finster, Ph.D.

2019: Samuella Sigmann
2018: Dow Chemical Company
2017: Monona Rossol, President of Arts, Crafts & Theater Safety, Inc.
2016: Lee Latimer
2015: Jyllian Kemsley, C&ENews

2014: Sheila Kennedy, University of California San Diego
2013: Proctor and Gamble’s Children’s Safe Drinking Water program

2012: Robert Emery
2011: Eugene Ngai
2009: Chemical Security Engagement Program of the U.S. Department of State
2008: U.S. Chemical Safety Board

2007: Salvatore R. DiNardi
2006: D. Jeff Burton
2005: Edward H. Rau
2004: Thomas Goehl
2003: Harry J. Elston

2002: Robert H. Hill Jr.
2001: Eileen Segal
2000: Emmett Barkley
1999: Linda Rosenstock
1998: Janet Baum

1997: Louis DiBerardinis
1996: Ralph Stuart
1995: Warren K. Kingsley
1994: Daniel Crowl
1993: Howard F. Fawcett

1992: Kenneth Yoder
1991: Jay A. Young
1990: Stanley Pine
1989: Douglas B. Walters
1988: Leslie Bretherick

1987: Samuel S. Butcher, Dana W. Mayo, Ronald M. Pike
1986: Blaine C. McKusick
1985: Malcolm Renfrew
1984: Warren Kingsley
1983: Herbert House

Tillmanns-Skolnik Award

Download the Nomination Application Form for this Award Here: [Click to Download Tillmanns-Skolnik Nomination Form]

Statement of Award Purpose

The Tillmanns-Skolnik Award was established in 1984 to recognize and honor outstanding, long-term service to the Division of Chemical Health and Safety.

Award Amount and Recognition

  • $500 Honorarium
  • Engraved plaque including name of recipient

The recipient of this award is expected to deliver a 15 – 20-minute presentation at the CHAS Awards Symposium at the ACS Fall national meeting in the year that they receive the award. The presentation may be on any topic related to chemical safety.

Description of Eligible Nominees

Nominees must have been an active member of the division for at least five years and have shown, though personal effort, outstanding support for the realization of CHAS’s goals in Chemical Health and Safety.

One award is given per year.

Eligible Sources of Nominations

Any CHAS division member

Additional Information about this Award

The Tillmanns-Skolnik Award was established in 1984 to recognize and honor outstanding, long-term service to the Division of Chemical Health and Safety. Originally named the Distinguished Service Award, it was renamed the Tillmanns-Skolnik Award in in 1986 to honor Emma Jean Tillmanns-Skolnik.

Previous Winners

  • 2020: Robin M. Izzo
  • 2019: Harry Elston
  • 2018: Diane Grob Schmidt
  • 2017: Robert Hill
  • 2016: Sammye Sigmann
  • 2015: Ralph Stuart and Robert Toreki
  • 2014: Kim Jeskie
  • 2013: Neal Langerman
  • 2012: Ken Fivizzani
  • 2011 Frankie Wood-Black
  • 2010 Debbie Decker
  • 2009 Ralph Stuart
  • 2008 Stefan Wawzyniecki
  • 2007 Frankie Wood-Black
  • 2006 Barbara Foster
  • 2005 Russell W. Phifer
  • 2004 Neal Langerman
  • 2003 Peter Ashbrook
  • 2002 Robert Alaimo
  • 2001 Warren Kingsley and Elizabeth Weisburger
  • 2000 Laurence J. Doemeny and Douglas B. Walters
  • 1999 Sung Moon
  • 1998 Erik A. Talley
  • 1997 George H. Wahl, Jr.
  • 1996 Eileen B. Segal
  • 1995 Steve Szabo
  • 1994 Po-Yung Lu
  • 1993 Ruth Hathaway
  • 1992 Ernest I. Becker
  • 1991 Pat Redden
  • 1989 Jay A. Young
  • 1988 Donald Hedberg
  • 1987 Lyle H. Phifer
  • 1986 I.J. Wilk
  • 1984 Howard Fawcett