2026 Southwest Regional Meeting seeks papers

The 2026 Southwest Regional Meeting (SWRM) of the American Chemical Society is seeking paper submissions. The meeting will take place on Nov. 16–19 at the Hilton Forth Worth hotel in Fort Worth, Texas.

Details, including names and contact information for program and session chairs, will be available on the meeting website at swrm.org/home.

This year’s theme is “Chemistry at the Intersection of Energy, Sustainability, and Biology.” It will highlight advances in areas of chemistry at the intersection of scientific and technological domains. The meeting will include general and specialized symposia, plenary lectures, a graduate and career fair, and an exposition.

The program will feature multiple symposia, including the following: “Advances in Functional Polymers and Materials,” “Biochemistry: Enzymes and Macromolecular Complexes,” “Bioinorganic Chemistry in Health, Energy, and Environment,” “Biotechnology Innovations at the Chemistry-Biology Interface,” “Coffer Symposium on Advances in Materials Science,” “Colloids, Surfactants and Interfaces,” “Communication Skills in Preparing, Presenting, and Publishing Papers,” “Computational Chemistry in Action,” “Emerging Trends in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry,” “Functional Solid State Materials,” “Inorganic Chemistry,” “Hyperpolarized Magnetic Resonance – from Chemistry and Applications,” “Immune-Active Materials and Protein Delivery,” “Insight and Numbers in Quantum Chemistry,” “Lessons and Inspiration from the Past,” “Macrocycles,” “Make It Make Sense: Innovative Teaching Practices,” “Materials Chemistry: Emerging Contaminant Remediation in Impacted Environments,” “Metastable, Defect-Rich, and Nanostructured Materials for Sustainable Energy,” “New Instrumentation and Methods of Analysis,” “Organic and Chemical Biology Young Investigator Symposium,” “Polymers and Sustainability Challenges,” “The Sweet Chemistry of Life: The Chemistry and Biology of Carbohydrates,” “Transformative Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions,” and “Women in Energy and Sustainability.”

Submissions will open July 6 through ACS’s Meeting Abstracts Programming System (MAPS). The deadline to submit is Aug. 19.