faculty news Julie Champion •
•
Elected as an American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Materials Engineering & Sciences Division director for 2014-16 Awarded Georgia Tech’s 2015 Junior Faculty Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award
Ronald Chance Won the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Presidential Green Chemistry Award (Climate Change category) as the executive vice president of Algenol (recognized for developing blue-green algae to produce ethanol and other fuels) John Crittenden Won the National Water Research Institute’s Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize for research excellence Charles Eckert Won Sigma Xi’s 2015 Monie A. Ferst Award (for inspiring students to excel in research) Michael Filler Won the AIChE Outstanding Faculty Award for ChBE Chris Jones • Named a fellow, American Chemical Society • Named a fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science/Section on Chemistry
Chris Luettgen Named professor of the practice in ChBE, associate director of Pulp and Paper at the Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI), and director of the Undergraduate Pulp & Paper Program
Sally Ng • Elected as an AIChE Environmental Division director for 2015-17 • Principal Investigator for a team that won a $700,000 Major Instrumentation Grant from the NSF (for a gas-particle, highresolution mass spectrometer) Sandra Pettit Won a Fellow Grade Award from the Society of Women Engineers
Pamela Peralta-Yahya Won a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (category: Advanced Automation and Microfluidic Technologies for Engineering Biology)
Mark Prausnitz Named a fellow, National Academy of Inventors Elsa Reichmanis Named a member, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Human Rights Carsten Sievers Named editor of Applied Catalysis A: General Jacqueline Snedeker Received a Phillips 66 grant as director of the Technical Communications Program (featured in a Phillips 66 video)
Krista Walton Won the Rising Star Award from the Women Chemists Committee of the American Chemical Society.
Hang Lu Named a fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Sankar Nair and Chris Jones Won the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best Faculty Paper Award for “Interfacial Microfluidic Processing of Metal-Organic Framework Hollow Fiber Membranes,” published in Science Athanasios Nenes Named a Cullen-Peck Fellow, Georgia Tech College of Sciences
ChBE Wins 2015 CCR Safety Award The Council for Chemical Research (CCR) selected the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering to receive the 2015 CCR University Safety Award. Established in 2014, this award is presented annually to an academic department which has demonstrated significant progress in creating a culture of safety in chemical research.
8 SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL & BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING, GEORGIA TECH