While completing his PhD in chemical engineering at the University of Michigan, Phil Christopher attended monthly meetings of the Michigan Chapter of the North American Catalysis Society (MC-NACS). Christopher, who is currently a professor of chemical engineering at UC Santa Barbara, said that attending the MC-NACS Annual Symposium was an annual highlight, because the recipient of the Guiseppe Parravano Award for Excellence in Catalysis Research, the chapter’s most prestigious award, ga...