Dr. Gregory B. McKenna is featured speaker at Spring Technical Meeting

Akron, OH – The Rubber Division, ACS, is featuring Dr. Gregory B. McKenna from North Carolina State University as a speaker at the Spring Technical Meeting on March 6th at Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Dr. McKenna will discuss the unique behavior of large and entangled polymer macrocycles. His presentation provides results of a rheological investigation PolyDODT rings that are made by Reversible Radical Recombination Polymerization (R3P) as part of the Rubber Characterization & Analysis Topic Session.

Dr. McKenna is Research Professor at NC State with a reputation as a pioneering researcher in multiple areas of polymers, materials physics, and engineering. He attended the U.S. Air Force Academy receiving his bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics in 1970. As part of his active duty, he attended MIT where he earned a master’s degree in the area of composite materials. He served as a Test Evaluation Engineer for the Air Force and obtained a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Utah. Dr. McKenna joined NBS (now NIST) in 1977. He was the head of the Structure and Mechanics Group in the Polymers Division at NIST. In 1999, he moved to Texas Tech University as Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and John R. Bradford Endowed Chair in Engineering. At TTU, he served as Department Chair of Chemical Engineering and Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor. In 2021, he moved to the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University. He is the recipient of multiple awards including the International Award from the Society of Plastics Engineers, the Mettler-Toledo Award of NATAS and the Bingham Medal of the Society of Rheology. He has served as Chairman of the Polymer Physics Division of the APS, President of the Society of Engineering Science and President of the Society of Rheology.

For more information visit https://spring2025.events.rubber.org/