Category: Awards
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ChE Alumni Merit Award Winner: Stephen P. Hart
Steve Hart, former Global Vice President of Supply, Trading and Transportation at ExxonMobil, is the recipient Michigan Chemical Engineering’s 2019 Alumni Merit Award.
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Mark Burns elected AIChE Fellow
Burns is recognized for his contributions to the profession and technology
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Seven ChE students named NSF Fellows
Congratulations to our most recent National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP) recipients
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Susan Montgomery receives achievement award
She is cited for her dedication to mentoring students and improving the climate in the College
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Two doctoral students awarded graduate fellowships
Joseph Cicchese and William Kelley receive 2019 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Awards
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Mark Burns is the 2019 Rexford E. Hall Innovation Excellence Award Winner
Honored for his pioneering research at Michigan
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Sharon C. Glotzer elected to National Academy of Engineering
Glotzer joins Michigan Engineering dean, IOE professor as newest members of the nation’s most prestigious engineering association
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Fei Wen wins 2019 David E. Liddle Research Excellence Award
Young investigator in the field of personalized immunotherapy and biocatalysis is recognized for her achievements and innovation.
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Two awards grant more than 1.5 million hours on two of the world’s fastest supercomputers
One is a competitive U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science award that will power Michigan Engineering research by providing more than 1.5 million node hours combined on two of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.
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Glotzer, Larson receive prestigious American Physical Society prizes
Glotzer received the Aneesur Rahman Prize for outstanding achievement in computational physics research and Larson was awarded the Polymer Physics Prize for outstanding achievement in polymer science.
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Fei Wen named to 2018 Class of Influential Researchers
Wen is among the 29 engineers and scientists from laboratories in North America, Europe, and Asia identified as influential, early-career researchers based on the quality and impact of their research.
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Rich Lesser returns to Michigan to accept alumni award
Rich Lesser has been Chief Executive Officer of Boston Consulting Group (BCG) since 2013. He is only the second engineer to lead BCG.
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Nicholas Kotov receives Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship
He is one of 11 faculty scientists and engineers nationwide selected for the 2018 fellow class
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Four ChE students receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Two graduate and two undergraduate students are National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship recipients.
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Building community: Chemical Engineering PhD student creates space for LGBTQ engineers
Moran is a mentor for LGBTQ engineering students at the University of Michigan and the architect behind several inclusive programs across campus and the United States.
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Nicholas Kotov wins gold in inaugural global academic technology award
Nicholas A. Kotov, the Joseph B. and Florence V. Cejka Professor of Chemical Engineering, is one of five “Gold Prize” award winners in the 2018 Mobile World Scholar Challenge.
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Johannes Schwank elected AIChE Fellow
Schwank has made numerous significant contributions to the advancement of chemical engineering and specifically to the field of heterogeneous catalysis.
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New faculty award established in honor of Professor Scott Fogler
With over 50 years of service to the U-M, Professor Fogler has made outstanding contributions to the field of chemical engineering through his teaching, textbooks and research.
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CHE NSF and NDSEG graduate fellowship recipients
These programs support outstanding students with high potential in science, technology, engineering and mathematics early in their graduate training.
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Ralph Yang named Distinguished University Professor
The professorships recognize Michigan faculty members for “exceptional achievement and reputation in their appointive fields of scholarly interest and for their superior teaching skills.”