2015 WIC Travel Grant Award Winners

Enabling more women to attend an AIChE conference provides a valuable opportunity to advance their professional development via networking, shared resources, and increased visibility within AIChE and the profession.

Thanks to the generous support of individual and corporate donors, travel grants were awarded to 14 women  last fall as part of the Women’s Initiatives Committee (WIC) Travel Award program. The WIC Travel Award Program supports women seeking to re-enter the workforce and/or in academia (graduate school and post-doctoral) with travel resources to attend an AIChE Annual and Spring Meeting.

In 2015, 57 outstanding applicants submitted proposals highlighting their innovative research subjects as well as their specific journeys into the chemical engineering workforce. Of those 57 applicants, 14 winners were selected and each received a $500 grant to cover their travel expenses to the 2015 Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City. The recipients were also honored with an award at the WIC Luncheon on November 9th 2015. The WIC Travel Award Program is a critical resource for women, especially those reentering the chemical engineering workforce, to network with peers, benefit from mentors’ guidance for successful practices, and gain insight from exposure to industry leaders.  

14 WIC Travel Award recipients:  

• Michelle Ho, Ph.D. Candidate
  Rice University, Houston, TX
   
• Taylor Laughlin, M.S. Candidate in Biological Systems Engineering
  University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
   
• Danielle Mai, Ph.D. Candidate, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
   
• Amy Mantz, M.S. Candidate in Biological Systems Engineering
  University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
   
• Lakshmi Nathan, Ph.D. Candidate, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
  Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
   
• Kayla Pate, Ph.D. Candidate, Chemical Engineering
  University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
   
• Marissa Puzan, Ph.D Candidate, Chemical Engineering
  Northeastern University, Boston, MA
   
• Dana Nicole Reinemann, Ph.D Candidate, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
   
• Ridade Sayin, Ph.D. Candidate, Chemical Engineering
  Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
   
• Kayla Sprenger, Ph.D. Candidate, Chemical Engineering
  University of Washington, Seattle, WA
   
• Michelle Stolzoff, Ph.D. Candidate, Bioengineering
  Northeastern University, Boston, MA
   
• Victoria Sun, Ph.D. Candidate, Chemical Engineering
  University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
   
• Cara Touretzky, Ph.D. Candidate, Chemical Engineering
  University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
   
• Megan Witzke, Ph.D. Candidate, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

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