The Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York (NYCS) held its annual meeting in Newark, New Jersey on the campus of the New Jersey Institute of Technology on March 13th, 2024. Two current members of the Combustion and Catalysis Lab, PI, Marco Castaldi and PhD student, Kaitlyn Lawrence, attended the meeting. Castaldi chaired the final technical session of the day, and Lawrence presented a poster titled ‘Nitrogen Oxide Mitigation via a Waste-Derived Heterogeneous Mixed Metal Oxide’. The poster was awarded 3rd place in the symposium poster competition.