2021 Institute & Board of Directors’ Awards

September 21, 2021

AIChE’s Institute and Board of Directors’ Awards are AIChE’s highest honors, and candidates are nominated by the chemical engineering community and voted upon by the members of AIChE’s volunteer-led Awards Committee. The prizes recognize outstanding achievements and world-class contributions across a spectrum of chemical engineering endeavors.

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Dr. Michelle O’Malley of UC Santa Barbara Selected as 2021 Colburn Award Recipient

September 21, 2021. By Gordon Ellis

Dr. O’Malley is being recognized “for engineering unusual microorganisms from nature for biomass deconstruction and novel bioprocessing.”

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Stanford’s Zhenan Bao Is AIChE’s 2021 Alpha Chi Sigma Award Recipient

September 23, 2021. By Gordon Ellis

Dr. Bao is being honored “for her pioneering work and leadership in the development of organic electronic materials and their applications to skin-inspired electronics.”

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Santhosh Shankar of Shell Receives AIChE’s Energy and Sustainability Award

September 28, 2021. By Gordon Ellis

Dr. Shankar is being recognized for his contributions to industry-academia partnership and technical research in direct air capture and carbon utilization pathways to fuels and chemicals.

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Mark Ellis of 3M Named 2021 Industry Leadership Award Winner

September 30, 2021. By Gordon Ellis

Dr. Ellis is being honored for groundbreaking polymerization research and for technical leadership resulting in sustainable industrial production of differentiated materials that have enabled multiple businesses and that have ultimately enhanced lives globally.

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Pfizer’s Paul Mensah Is AIChE’s 2021 Industrial R&D Award Recipient

October 05, 2021. By Gordon Ellis

Mensah is being recognized for outstanding leadership of pharmaceutical biotechnology process development and clinical supply, including the development and supply of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.

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Mou Paul of Dow Chemical Selected as AIChE’s Industrial Progress Award Recipient

October 07, 2021. By Gordon Ellis

Dr. Paul is being honored as an industrial technical leader who excels at the intersection of product innovation and fundamental polymer science to create products for a more sustainable future.

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Nicholas Peppas of UT Austin to Receive AIChE’s Warren K. Lewis Award for ChE Education

October 19, 2021. By Gordon Ellis

Dr. Peppas is being honored for seminal contributions to chemical engineering education, including development of educational literature and resources for more than 45 years.

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Doraiswami Ramkrishna of Purdue University to Receive AIChE’s Walker Award for Chemical Engineering Literature

October 26, 2021. By Gordon Ellis

Dr. Ramkrishna is being honored for original and seminal contributions to the chemical engineering literature on the application of mathematics to chemical, particulate, and biological processes.

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Rosenthal Selected to Receive 2021 Van Antwerpen Award for Service to AIChE

November 02, 2021. By Gordon Ellis

Rosenthal is being honored for leading AIChE during times of uncertainty to ensure a continuing home for chemical engineering professionals.

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Kristi S. Anseth Receives AIChE’s Founders Award for 2021

November 09, 2021. By Gordon Ellis

Dr. Anseth is being lauded for her seminal contributions to the application of foundational aspects of chemical engineering to the design of advanced biomaterials, hybrid medical devices, and bionanoscale-based processes.

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MIT’s Karen Gleason to Receive AIChE’s Margaret H. Rousseau Pioneer Award

November 11, 2021. By Gordon Ellis

Dr. Gleason is being honored for her pioneering work with chemical vapor deposition (CVD) for advanced surface functionalization with polymers, and for university leadership including advancement opportunities for women.

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Masoud Soroush of Drexel University Receives AIChE’s 2021 Industrial Gases Award

October 16, 2021. By Gordon Ellis

Dr. Soroush is being honored for advancing the frontiers of gas-separation technologies through the fabrication of novel polymer membranes and the development of process systems engineering methods and software.

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Sarah Eckersley of Dow Receives Evans Chemical Engineering Practice Award

November 18, 2021. By Gordon Ellis

Dr. Eckersley is being recognized for delivering a robust pipeline of technology for Dow Coating Materials.

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Yushan Yan of University of Delaware Is Named R. H. Wilhelm Award Recipient for 2021

November 22, 2021. By Gordon Ellis

Dr. Yan is being recognized for sustained excellence and breakthrough contributions to electrochemical reaction engineering and electrocatalysis.

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MIT’s Kristala L. J. Prather Is the 2021 Acrivos Professional Progress Award Recipient

October 12, 2021. By Gordon Ellis

Dr. Prather is being honored for outstanding contributions to the design, assembly, and enhancement of biological pathways, and for engineering microbial strains for the production of biochemical compounds.