Dear  CHAS Members:
 Our Colleagues in the Awards Program asked for our help with communicating the call for nominations for ACS awards. Please see below.

Marta Gmurczyk, ACS Office of Safety Programs
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We would like your help with communicating information to your colleagues and committee members about the 2027 ACS National Awards call for nominations. 

Please encourage nominations for one of our featured awards listed below. These awards are a mix of new National Awards and National Awards that you may not have known about before. 

• ACS Award for Creative Invention
• ACS Award in Surface Chemistry
• Now a National Award: Pariser Award in Theoretical Chemistry
• Elias J. Corey Award for Outstanding Original Contribution in Organic Synthesis by a Young Investigator
• New Award: David A. Evans Award for the Advancement and Education of Organic Synthesis
• Now an Annual Award: Marks-Ipatieff Award in Catalysis
• New Award: Thomas H. Parliment Award for Advances in Flavor Chemistry
• Priestley Medal
• New Award: Dong Qin ACS Award in Nanochemistry
• New Name: Philip J. Wyatt Award in Analytical Chemistry
• Charles Lathrop Parsons Award

We also want to encourage nominations of individuals from groups not commonly named as recipients of the ACS National Awards, such as chemists from industry, chemists from National Laboratories, faculty members at universities not well-represented in the ACS Awards Program, and individuals underrepresented in chemistry. For a full list of national awards being presented in 2027, visit https://www.acs.org/funding/awards/national/awards-by-title/2027.html. 

The deadline for submitting a nomination package is November 1, 2025 at www.nominate.acs.org.

Please feel free to contact the Awards team if you need additional information or have any questions at awards**At_Symbol_Here**acs.org.

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