| Mehdi Nafissi and I organized the first "Bench To Pilot Plant" Symposium in 1997. It was a huge success and it has now become a regular feature of the Chemistry Program in North Jersey. Mehdi and I went on to organize a similar session at a National ACS meeting and I organized another National "Bench To Pilot Plant" at the National Meeting in San Diego (2005). |

| With Mehdi Nafissi (Co-founder of "Bench"), the Section Chair (Anita Brandolini) and the speakers at the first Bench to Pilot Plant (1997) |


| Bench To Pilot Plant at National. A capacity crowd on a Thursday afternoon! |

| The Organizing Committee with some of the speakers at an Organic Topical Group event |















