{"id":1426,"date":"2026-03-01T13:39:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2026-03-01T13:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:41:09","slug":"megan-fieser-acs-pid-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/faculty-recogntion\/2026\/03\/megan-fieser-acs-pid-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Fieser"},"content":{"rendered":"  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-intro \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-intro\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2><strong>Megan Fieser<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-278\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2023\/04\/fieser-megan-stack-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Megan Fieser\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2023\/04\/fieser-megan-stack-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2023\/04\/fieser-megan-stack-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2023\/04\/fieser-megan-stack.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/megan-fieser\/\">Megan Fieser<\/a><\/strong>, assistant professor of chemistry, has received an ACS Principal Investigator Development in Sustainability award from the American Chemical Society for her work on \u201cImproving the End of Life of Poly(Vinyl Chloride) Products.\u201d The award, established to advance chemistry that addresses challenges laid out in the <a href=\"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/united-nations-sustainable-development-goals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.N. Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>, includes $50,000 to support Fieser during a sabbatical at the National Laboratory of the Rockies, where she will explore the scalability of her work on repurposing polyvinyl chloride \u2014 a plastic that is rarely recycled \u2014 into new materials. She\u2019ll also gain expertise in lifecycle assessment and techno-economic analysis as well as build new ideas and collaborations with members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlr.gov\/manufacturing\/bottle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DOE BOTTLE Consortium<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/megan-fieser\/\"><strong>Megan Fieser<\/strong><\/a>, assistant professor of chemistry, has received an ACS Principal Investigator Development in Sustainability award from the American Chemical Society for her work on \u201cImproving the End of Life of Poly(Vinyl Chloride) Products.\u201d The award includes $50,000 to support Fieser during a sabbatical at the National Laboratory of the Rockies, where she will explore the scalability of her work on repurposing polyvinyl chloride into new materials. She\u2019ll also gain expertise in lifecycle assessment and techno-economic analysis as well as build collaborations with members of the DOE BOTTLE Consortium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-recogntion","category-natural-sciences"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Megan Fieser<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"USC Dornsife chemistry professor Megan Fieser earns Principal Investigator Development in Sustainability award from ACS\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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