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Awards and Honors

^ Richard C. Alkire
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow, Honorary Member, and Past President, The Electrochemical Society
Teaching Excellence Award, U of I School of Chemical Sciences, 1982
Research Award, Electrochemical Division, The Electrochemical Society, 1983
Carl Wagner Memorial Award, The Electrochemical Society, 1985
Professional Progress Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1985
Director, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1988-91
G. W. Kidd Outstanding Alumnus Award, Lafayette College, 1988
E. V. Murphree Award, American Chemical Society, 1991
Technical Achievement Award, National Association of Corrosion Engineers, 1992
Edward Goodrich Acheson Medal, The Electrochemical Society, 1996

^ Richard D. Braatz
Hertz Fellow, 1991
Hertz Foundation Doctoral Thesis Prize, 1993
Du Pont Young Faculty Award, 1995
Teaching Excellence Award, U of I School of Chemical Sciences, 1997
Advisors List for Advising Excellence, U of I College of Engineering, 1999
Honorable Mention, Campus Award for Excellence in Guiding Undergraduate Research, U of I, 1999
Xerox Award for Faculty Research, U of I College of Engineering, 1999
Dean's Teaching Fellow, U of I College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2000
Donald P. Eckman Award, American Automatic Control Council, 2000
OSU Council of Outstanding Early Career Engineers, Oregon State University, 2000

^ Harry G. Drickamer, Emeritus
Member, American Philosophical Society
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Member, National Academy of Sciences
Member, U of I Center for Advanced Study
Doctor of Chemical Science Honoris Causa, Russian Academy of Science
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Fellow, American Physical Society
Allan P. Colburn Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1947
Ipatieff Prize, American Chemical Society, 1956
Alpha Chi Sigma Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1967
Buckley Prize for Solid State Physics, American Physical Society, 1967
Bendix Research Award, American Society for Engineering Education, 1968
William H. Walker Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1972
Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics, American Physical Society, 1974
P. W. Bridgman Medal, International Association for High Pressure Science and Technology, 1977
Michelson/Morley Award, 1978
Chemical Pioneers Award, American Institute of Chemists, 1983
John Scott Award, City of Philadelphia, 1984
Senior U.S. Scientist Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 1986
Warren K. Lewis Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1986
Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, University of Michigan, 1987
Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 1987
Welch Award, R. A. Welch Foundation, 1987
Elliott Cresson Medal, The Franklin Institute, 1988
National Medal of Science, 1989
Outstanding Materials Chemistry Award, U.S. Department of Energy, 1989
Director's Distinguished Lectureship, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, 1991
Gold Medal, American Institute of Chemists, 1996

^ Vinay K. Gupta
General Electric Scholar, U of I College of Engineering, 1998
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 1999
Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence, U of I College of Engineering, 1999
Teaching Excellence Award, U of I School of Chemical Sciences, 1999

^ Thomas J. Hanratty, Emeritus
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Member, National Academy of Sciences
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow, American Institute of Mechanics
Fellow, American Physical Society
Honorary Doctorate, University of Toulouse
Honorary Doctorate, Villannova University.:Allan P. Colburn Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1957
Curtis W. McGraw Award, American Society for Engineering Education, 1963
William H. Walker Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1964
Professional Progress Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1967
Senior Research Award, American Society for Engineering Education, 1979
Shell Distinguished Chair in Chemical Engineering, U of I, 1981-1990
Ernest Thiele Award, Chicago Section, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1986
University Scholar, U of I, 1987
J. W. Westwater Professorship, U of I, 1989-1997
Lamme Medal, Ohio State University, 1997
International Prize for Research in Multiphase Flow, 1998

^ Jonathan J. L. Higdon
Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1984
Teaching Excellence Award, U of I College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 1988
Teaching Excellence Award, U of I School of Chemical Sciences, 1990, 1994, 1998
Stanley Corrsin Lectureship in Fluid Mechanics, Johns Hopkins University, 1993

^ Paul J. A. Kenis
Akzo-Nobel Graduate Fellowship, 1993-1997
TALENT Postdoctoral Fellowship from NWO, The Dutch Science Foundation, 1998

^ Deborah E. Leckband
FIRST Award, National Institutes of Health, 1993
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 1995
Amoco Lectureship, Stanford University, 1998
Xerox Award for Faculty Research, U of I College of Engineering, 1998
Helen Petit Professorship, U of I College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 1999
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, U of I, 2000
University Scholar, U of I, 2000-2003

^ Richard I. Masel
Alumni Achievement Award, Liberal Arts College, 1996-1997
Postdoctoral Fellow, NATO, 1977
Exxon Faculty Fellowship in Solid-State Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 1982
Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation 1984

^ Walter G. May, Emeritus
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Tau Beta Pi Eminent Engineer, 1988
Award in Chemical Engineering Practice, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1989
Teaching Excellence Award, U of I School of Chemical Sciences, 1989, 1991

^ Anthony J. McHugh
Senior U.S. Scientist Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 1988
Alumni Professorship, U of I Department of Chemical Engineering, 1989
U of I School of Chemical Sciences Teaching Award, 1990, 1995
Lycan Professorship, U of I School of Chemical Sciences, 1995

^ Nikolaos V. Sahinidis
Du Pont Young Faculty Research Initiation Grant, U of I, 1991
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 1995
Fellowship, National Science Foundation/Lucent Technologies Industrial Ecology, 1998
CAST Director's Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1999

^ William R. Schowalter
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Member, National Academy of Sciences
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Doctorat Honoris Causa, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, France
William H. Walker Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1982
Fellow, J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, 1987-1988
E. C. Bingham Medal, Society of Rheology, 1988

^ Edmund G. Seebauer
Dow Teaching Excellence Award, 1988
Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1988
Du Pont Young Faculty Award, 1989
Observer for U.S. Delegation, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry General Assemblies, 1989, 1991
Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1994-1996
Inventor Recognition Award, Semiconductor Research Corp., 1995
Teaching Award, U of I School of Chemical Sciences, 1996

^ James W. Westwater, Emeritus
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers
William H. Walker Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1966
Max Jacob Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1972
Bendix Award, American Society for Engineering Education, 1974
Founders' Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1984
Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1989
Ernest W. Thiele Award, Chicago Section, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1994

^ Huimin Zhao
Dow Special Recognition Award, 1999, 2000

^ Charles F. Zukoski
Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1987
Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence, U of I College of Engineering, 1992
Fulbright Teaching/Scholar Fellowship to visit the University of Melbourne, 1992
Robert W. Vaughan Lectureship in Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1993
Alumni Professor, U of I Department of Chemical Engineering, 1994-1999
Thiele Lectureship in Chemical Engineering, Notre Dame University, 1994
University Scholar, U of I, 1994-1997
Plenary Lecture: 13th Symposium on Industrial Crystallization, Toulouse, France, September 1996
Moulton Medal, Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1997
Publication Award, Society of Rheology, 1997
Ralph K. Iler Award, American Chemical Society, 1997
Alcoa Plenary Lecture, Symposium on Particulate Fluids, Melbourne, Australia, 1998
Wilheim Lectureship, Princeton University Department of Chemical Engineering, 2000
William H. and Janet G. Lycan Chair, School of Chemical Sciences, U of I, 2000-


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