AKRON (March 12, 2008) – The University of Akron's Roderic P. Quirk and Manuela Ocampo and Thermo-O-Linke Inc.'s Vipin M. Kothari have won ACS Rubber Division awards for their efforts at the group's last meeting, in Cleveland last October.
Quirk and Ocampo won the Best Paper Award for their presentation, “Anionic Synthesis of Trialkoxysilyl-Functionalized Polymers” Kothari the Best Symposium Award for serving as chairman of the session “Aging, Degradation and Stabilization of Rubber and Plastics.”