“The Polymer Program at the Department of Chemistry, the George and Josephine Butler Polymer Research Laboratory, and the Center for Macromolecular Science and Engineering are pleased to announce that Dr. Brent Sumerlin will be joining our research and teaching efforts here at the University of Florida in the summer of 2012. Currently the Harold Jeskey Associate Professor in Chemistry at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, Dr. Sumerlin comes to us with a wide range of expertise in the areas of materials chemistry and the life sciences.”