Committee on Professional and Member Relations

What We Do

The core mission of the Committee on Professional and Member Relations (P&MR) is to advance through Board-level policy recommendations the professional and economic interests and stature of ACS members worldwide. For more details, see the P&MR Information page.

Focus Areas

ACS Membership

• Society Membership trends, long-range and short-range plans and experimental programs

Industry Member Initiative

• Understand the industry members demographic
• What industry member problems are we trying to solve?

ACS National Awards

• Improving the efficiency of the Selection Process National Awards Advisory Board (NAAB)
• Understanding the National Awards from a Financial Perspective
• National Awards Sponsors and ACS Board Awards

ACS Fellows

• Strengthening guidelines and selection process

Enhancing Member Facing IT

• acs.org
• Enabling international chapters to nominate their members for ACS Fellows
• Volunteer Management
• Member Testing Activities
• Grants Management

Who We Are

The Committee on Professional and Member Relations (P&MR) is a seven-member Standing Committee of the ACS Board of Directors. Mr. John Katz is Staff Liaison.