Attracting and Retaining the Best and the Brightest

Doing a World of Good by Attracting the Best and the Brightest

By welcoming individuals from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, chemical engineering can expand its appeal and create opportunities for everyone 

Attracting people who bring different backgrounds, experiences and points of view to chemical engineering, will broaden its appeal, opening the doors of opportunity to all.

I am passionate about furthering my education and gaining the necessary skills to design highly advanced systems to help fulfill the needs of humanity". Joshua Hood, Class of 2022 Scholar 

To achieve our goal of parity in the profession by 2050, AIChE offers programs addressing gender, racial and other imbalances by cultivating inclusion from the classroom to the boardroom. 

Since the campaign launched, the AIChE Foundation invested your gifts in the following ways: 

  • 295 students attending 38 HBCUs were selected as FOSSI Scholars earning $10K annually for four years. 

  • 625 scholarships were funded through Future of STEM Scholars Initiative (FOSSI) 

  • K-12 STEM Ambassador program expanded to six more universities with the launch of the Bee a ChemE national awareness campaign. 

You can do a world of good by contributing today to programming that attracts a wide diversity of talent and imagination, please visit the AIChE Foundation or contact: 

Natalie Krauser
Director of Development
natak@aiche.org
646-495-1393                                                                       
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FOSSI Hits HBCU Campus

On January 18th, the Future of STEM Scholars Initiative (FOSSI) hosted its first on-campus visit with 42 FOSSI scholars and 15 corporate sponsors at Howard University campus for lunch and a networking session. This was the first opportunity for in-person interaction between scholars and sponsors, who are eager to attend more of these gatherings in the future.