Page 8 - CEMS Newsletter Fall 2023

FACULTY AWARDS
Award-winning faculty
Numerous faculty members have recently won prestigious awards.
Frank Bates
and detailed experimentation to elicit kinetic and mechanistic information, verified against thermodynamic measurements and strictures, into hydrocarbon reaction systems of significant complexity and practical utility.
Michelle Calabrese
Assistant Professor Michelle Calabrese is among 35 recipients of the 2023 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) 35 Under 35 Award. The award recognizes chemical engineering professionals who have made great contributions to the field and to AIChE.
Frank Bates
Regents Professor Frank
Bates is among the recipients of the 2024 national awards administered by the American Chemical Society (ACS). Bates won the ACS Award in Applied Polymer Science, sponsored
by Eastman Chemical. The national awards encourage the advancement of chemistry in all its branches, support research endeavors, and promote the careers of chemists. Recipients will be honored at an award ceremony on Tuesday, March
19, 2024, in conjunction with ACS Spring 2024 in New Orleans.
Recipients were selected
for their achievements and
contributions in one of
seven different categories:
bioengineering, chemicals
and materials, education and outreach, energy and environment, innovation and entrepreneurship, leadership, and safety. Calabrese was honored for her contributions in the chemicals and materials category. Her research group employs rheology, soft matter physics, and polymer and nanoparticle synthesis to address a range of fundamental and applied problems in polymer and soft materials engineering. She hopes her research group will be recognized both for their scientific contributions and their efforts to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
All winners will be formally recognized and celebrated during an awards reception at the 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting in Orlando in November. In addition, each awardee will receive a cash prize of $500, have their profiles highlighted throughout AIChE and the chemical engineering community, and receive complimentary AIChE membership for 2024. continued on page 9
Aditya Bhan
Michelle Calabrese
Aditya Bhan
As the 2023 recipient of the Paul H. Emmett Award in Fundamental Catalysis, Professor Aditya Bhan delivered a Plenary Lecture at the 2023 North American Meeting of the Catalysis Society (NAM28) and was presented with the award plaque and honorarium during the closing banquet ceremonies. The award recognizes and encourages individual contributions
in the field of catalysis with emphasis on discovery and understanding of
catalytic phenomena, proposal of catalytic reaction mechanisms and identification of and description of catalytic sites and species. Professor Bhan and his group are recognized for bringing analytical formalisms
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