2023 Institute & Board of Directors’ Awards

August 23, 2023

This series introduces the recipients of AIChE’s 2023 Institute and Board of Directors’ Awards, AIChE’s highest honors. Recipients are nominated by the chemical engineering community and voted upon by the members of AIChE’s volunteer-led Awards Committee. The Board of Directors’ Award honorees are nominated by the community and selected by AIChE’s Executive Committee.

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Warren Seider Is AIChE’s 2023 Founders Award Recipient

August 22, 2023. By Gordon Ellis

Dr. Seider is being recognized for his pioneering contributions in chemical engineering research and education spanning six decades.

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Zhen-Gang Wang Is AIChE’s 2023 Alpha Chi Sigma Award Recipient

August 29, 2023. By Gordon Ellis

Wang is being recognized for theoretical contributions toward the understanding of transport, thermodynamics, and phase transitions in soft matter.

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Jennifer Sinclair Curtis Is AIChE’s 2023 Margaret H. Rousseau Pioneer Award Recipient

September 05, 2023. By Gordon Ellis

Curtis is being honored for pioneering work in particle technology as well as for international leadership in education, diversity, and inclusivity in the engineering profession.

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University of Houston’s Mike Harold Is AIChE’s R. H. Wilhelm Award Recipient

September 12, 2023. By Idell Bryan

Harold is being recognized for the synthesis, analysis, and development of novel multifunctional reactors and catalysts for reduced emissions, intensified and safer operation, and higher desired product selectivity.

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Pfizer’s Ranga Godavarti Is AIChE’s 2023 Industrial R&D Award Recipient

September 19, 2023. By Gordon Ellis

Ranga Godavarti is being recognized for for outstanding leadership of pharmaceutical development, including development of the COVID vaccine.

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Hal Alper of UT Austin Is AIChE’s 2023 Acrivos Professional Progress Award Recipient

September 21, 2023. By Gordon Ellis

Alper is being recognized for pioneering contributions in the fields of synthetic biology and metabolic engineering, and for profoundly impacting the field of industrial biotechnology.

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Georgia Tech’s Christopher Jones Is AIChE’s Industrial Gases Award Recipient

September 26, 2023. By Gordon Ellis

Jones is being honored for the design of adsorptive materials and processes for the capture and purification of gases, including diverse industrial gases and ground-breaking contributions to carbon dioxide capture from air.

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Jack Dever Named AIChE’s 2023 Evans Chemical Engineering Practice Award Recipient

September 28, 2023. By Gordon Ellis

Dever is being recognized for scale-ups and commercialization of ethylene oxide and acrylic acid process technologies, as well as for doubling the growth of the Mid-Atlantic Technology and Innovation Center.

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DuPont’s Prime RO Team Is the 2023 Energy and Sustainability Award Recipient

October 02, 2023. By Gordon Ellis

The Prime RO Team is being recognized for developing five families of the world’s most energy-efficient reverse osmosis membranes and elements that will reduce global CO2 equivalent emissions by 85,000 tons per year.

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Maria Wang of PPG Is AIChE’s Industrial Progress Award Recipient

October 04, 2023. By Gordon Ellis

Wang is being recognized for her significant contributions to the coatings industry.

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Berkeley’s Jeffrey Reimer Will Receive AIChE’s Warren K. Lewis Award for ChE Education

October 11, 2023. By Gordon Ellis

Dr. Reimer is being recognized for outstanding contributions to chemical engineering education as well as excellence in research.

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Sujit Datta Is AIChE’s 2023 Allan P. Colburn Award Recipient

October 16, 2023. By Gordon Ellis

Datta is being honored for outstanding contributions to chemical engineering through publications on the physicochemical dynamics of flow instabilities, swellable and shrinkable gels, and living systems in complex porous environments.

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Ioannis Kevrekidis of Johns Hopkins Will Receive AIChE’s Walker Award for Chemical Engineering Literature

October 20, 2023. By Gordon Ellis

Kevrekidis is being recognized for transformative contributions to chemical engineering modeling, integrating physical insight with data-driven/machine learning approaches, and modern scientific computation for complex, multiscale systems.

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Westmoreland Receives Van Antwerpen Award for Service to AIChE

October 24, 2023. By Gordon Ellis

Westmoreland is being recognized for his outstanding contributions to the chemical engineering profession through service to AIChE, in both the professional and technical areas of Institute activities.