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On July 30, the Future of STEM Scholars Initiative (FOSSI) celebrated its inaugural class at a virtual welcome event.

AIChE Foundation is proud to highlight and thank Celanese for its extraordinary leadership and contributions to Being the Change!

AIChE is thrilled to bring our Rising Star Leadership Workshop to the Technical Leadership Women’s Forum at 3M for an exclusive session.

Check out the 2021 AIChE® Foundation Doing a World of Good campaign report! Celebrating the extraordinary work of engineers and demonstrating what is possible when we come together as philanthropists investing in the profession.

In this episode, you will hear from empowering women process engineers on their career journeys in navigating mentorship and industry. Also key advice on how to develop one's career, growth and allyship.

This year’s deadline for the Minority Affairs Committee scholarships is fast approaching – July 15th. These prestigious scholarships are funded by the Foundation’s Henry T. and Melinda C. Brown Endowment for the Education of Underrepresented Minority Chemical Engineers.

FOSSI founding partners AIChE, ACC, Chemours and HBCU Week Foundation announced a major milestone. With funding from 43 chemical manufacturers and related industry stakeholders, the inaugural goal to fund scholarships for 150 students majoring in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) has been met and surpassed!

On April 20th, thirty meeting attendees participated in the Intersectionality in Chemical Engineering topical session at the 2021 AIChE Virtual Spring Meeting and 17th Global Congr

Chris Jahn, President & CEO of the American Chemistry Council hosted fellow Future of STEM Scholar Initiative (FOSSI) Founding Partners Mark Vergnano, President & CEO, Chemours; Ashley Christopher, CEO, HBCU Week Foundation; and June Wispelwey, to brief executives from 13 ACC member companies on the recently launched program, FOSSI.

Join our engaging Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) sessions at the 2021 AIChE® Virtual Spring Meeting and 17th Global Congress on Process Safety!

Meet two future chemical engineering leaders, Carlos Prieto-Perez and Elizabeth Haughton. They shared their personal journeys with the AIChE Foundation Board of Trustees at the spring business meeting.

The AIChE Foundation had the opportunity to connect the 2020 Poddar Rising Chemical Engineer Awardee, Laura Andrea Acosta Figueredo, to the couple who generously launched and endowed the award, Syamal and Susmita Poddar.

We are delighted to announce Drs. Arindam and Gopa Bose for their champion $25,000 matching gift challenge to support AIChE's Society for Biological Engineering (SBE) student programming. All gifts made now through May 31, 2021 will be matched dollar for dollar.

We are delighted to announce the following three projects were awarded grant funding for the 2021 first cycle of funding.

In the midst of a global pandemic, the AIChE VCU student chapter organized a Zoom gathering to celebrate PRIDE, how to be an ally and the importance of LGBTQ+ safe zones on campus.

The AIChE ® Foundation is excited to showcase the robust programming series made possible by our All For Good: Engineering for Inclusion initiative.

Join us this giving season in supporting the AIChE® Foundation to #ShareTheGood. Despite the challenges we’ve all experienced this year, our profession continues to advance, evolve and transform.

Dr. Amir Nashat and Dr. César de la Fuente discuss the importance of the Langer Prize and how it's designed to help talented researchers and entrepreneurs further their work.

The AIChE Foundation welcomed Camille Batiste, President, Global Supply Chain from Archer Daniels Midland at the Women in Chemical Engineering (WIC) Keynote address. 

The AIChE Foundation Fall 2020 Newsletter features inspiring stories of how our 60,000+ members are at the forefront of creating a more equitable, diverse and inclusive workforce for all chemical engineers.

MAC hosted a poster session to kick off the Eminent Engineers Awards Ceremony at the 2019 Annual Meeting. Thirteen graduate and undergraduate students were awarded travel grants, funded by AIChE Foundation donors, to attend the conference and present their posters. 

Thanks to our dedicated Annual Fund donors, the Foundation funded five community driven projects with grant awards totaling $84,000 this year. Since 2012, the Annual Fund has provided $2MM in grant funding for 98 projects lead by our membership to advance the profession.

Jennifer Sinclair Curtis, Dean, College of Engineering, UC Davis along with Kathy Chen, the late Dr. John C. Chen’s wife, hosted a virtual coffee chat via Zoom with past Chen Awardees: Donna Bryant (2018), Colin Young (2018) and Julia Lin (2019) to hear about their professional journey since selection.

Dr. Peter B. Lederman, an AIChE Fellow, past chair of the AIChE Foundation and former director who made extensive humanitarian and leadership contributions to AIChE and the chemical engineering profession across decades, passed away on June 9, 2020. He was 88.

The 2020 Doing a World of Good Campaign report highlights the lasting change we’ve put into motion for the betterment of humanity through chemical engineering. We are grateful for our community of 6,000+ industry partners and individual donors!

Executives representing more than two dozen companies gathered online at the AIChE Foundation’s Corporate Council and Leadership Forum to discuss their organizations’ responses to COVID-19 — and offered reflections about the changes wrought by the pandemic.  

Listen to 3M and Eastman Chemical Company's response efforts to COVID-19, ramping up the production of PPE and how they are handling the growing demand. 

The AIChE Foundation is deeply grateful to Gregory and Allyson, children of the late Henry T. and Melinda C. Brown for including AIChE in Henry’s obituary.

Listen to the first of a special series of the Doing a World of Good Podcast, generously underwritten by Raj and Kamla Gupta, focused on how chemical engineers and our industry are addressing the coronavirus pandemic.

In this Doing a World of Good Raj and Kamla Gupta Podcast episode, host Bob Knorpp speaks with Dr. Lucas Landherr, an Associate Teaching Professor of Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University and the current chair of the K-12 Committee; Ms.

The Institute for Sustainability is proud to announce new grant opportunities supporting students and post-doctoral candidates to attend  2020 conferences.

In this Doing a World of Good Raj and Kamla Gupta Podcast episode, Dr. Joan Brennecke and José Bravo discuss the importance of distillation technology. 

Henry T. Brown, an AIChE leader whose devotion to equity for minority engineers made an indelible impression on the life of AIChE and the countless chemical engineers who he mentored and encouraged, died on February 13, 2020 (at the age of 87), in Weston, MA.

In 2019, the AIChE Foundation supported its growing membership by launching three International Regional conferences that were held in South Korea, Brazil and Greece.

In this Doing a World of Good Raj and Kamla Gupta Podcast episode meet Dr. Jay Keasling, who discusses his team’s pioneering efforts in the metabolic engineering space and receiving the 2019 Doing a World of Good medal.

The AIChE Foundation is pleased to announce the following projects have been awarded grants for the 2020 first cycle of funding.

AIChE has awarded its first Langer Prize for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Excellence to César de la Fuente, Presidential Assistant Professor in the departments of bioengineering, microbiology and psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.

In this episode of the Foundation’s Doing a World of Good Raj and Kamla Gupta Podcast, you'll meet Jessica Boyer and Jenna Caputo. They talk about the importance of the Rising Stars Leadership Workshop to recognize and encourage the efforts of women in our industry.

The “What Chemical Engineers Do” film premiered at the 2019 AIChE Gala. This film illustrates the substance and breadth of chemical engineering's contributions, and hopes to inspire young people and the public to seek a better understanding and take more interest in chemical engineering.

During this holiday season, please join AIChE in making a year-end gift that will send a powerful message that we as chemical engineers, are committed to being a positive force for change. Thank you for your generosity and happy holidays from our family to yours!

Each fall semester ushers in new students, new classes, new things to learn, and this year the first of its kind student boot camp.  The weekend of October 11^th, a Student Process Safety boot camp was co- sponsored by Chemours and Syngenta along with CCPS at North Carolina Agricul

From Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau, to Mae Jemison, Barbara Minor to Frances Arnold, these trailblazing and brilliant chemical engineers have inspired thousands of women and underrepresented groups to follow in their footsteps to change the course of history and become chemical engineers.

Over the past summer, while many of us were vacationing, over 130 faculty members from around the globe took time out of their well-earned summer breaks to attend our industry led process safety workshops, through AIChE’s Undergraduate Process Safety Learning Initiative (UPSLI).  Wo

The AIChE Foundation is pleased to announce a new lectureship inspired by the career contributions of William R. Schowalter.

In this episode of the Doing a World of Good Raj and Kamla Gupta Podcast, you will meet Lilia Abron and Gilda Barabino, two trailblazing role models in the field of chemical engineering.

Demonstrating their commitment to safety and ethical practice, on June 10 - 13th, 2019, Dow hosted a highly successful three-day workshop to train faculty members from Universities across the country how process safety is put into industrial practice.

The AIChE Foundation is pleased to announce the following eight innovative projects have been awarded grants for the second funding cycle of 2019.

On June 14th the Centro Universitário SENAI CIMATEC AIChE Student Chapter came together to celebrate pride with ice cream. 

AIChE announced the creation of a new fellowship program that will assist researchers in pursuing innovative technical work with the potential of making valuable contributions to society.

The AIChE Foundation’s Doing a World of Good campaign announced the launch of its latest initiative, All For Good: Engineering for Inclusion, a comprehensive, multi-year, industrywide collective effort to increase inclusion in engineering.

The AIChE Foundation had the opportunity to chat with Doing a World of Good champions, Syamal and Susmita Poddar on their generous support to endow The Poddar Award for Rising Chemical Engineers.

Fostering Inclusive Communities was part of the leadership development track at the AIChE Spring Meeting, and is a core program of the AIChE Foundation's recently launched All for Good: Engineering for Inclusion initiative.

On February 1- 2, 2019, Villanova University along with CCPS held a very successful Student Process Safety boot camp. One of our largest process safety student boot camps, there were sixty – four students (57 Juniors and 7 Seniors) that came together to learn about process safety.

AIChE and its subsidiary the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) partnered with Trinseo (NYSE: TSE), a global materials solutions provider and manufacturer of plastics, latex binders and synthetic rubber to host a process safety workshop in China.

In 2018, Air Products became the first corporate donor to support AIChE's LGBTQ+ & Allies endowment fund. The gift was arranged by Dr. Roger Whitley, a Distinguished Engineer at the company.

Help celebrate and advance inclusiveness by attending societal impact sessions at this year's spring meeting.

The AIChE Foundation is pleased to announce the following initiatives have been awarded grants for the 2019 first cycle of funding.

In this episode of the Foundation’s Doing a World of Good podcast, you'll meet Deborah Grubbe and James Porter, and learn how to use strategies for adding purpose to both your career and retirement goals.

LyondellBasell one of world’s the largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies, teamed up with AIChE and CCPS hosting Chemical Engineering professors from around the world to deliver process safety best practices. Educators from the U.S.

Thank you for your support. Your generosity has been the driving force to advancing the chemical engineering profession and positively impacting our global society.

In this episode, you'll meet Daniel Crowl, Andre Da Costa, and Teressa Szelest, three individuals committed to the improvement of process safety.

On October 28^th, 2018, in conjunction with AIChE’s 2018 Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, the AIChE Foundation hosted its fifth Corporate Council and Industry Leaders Forum: Shaping the Future: Innovating Solutions to Address Industry and Society’s Most Pressing

On Monday, October 29th 2018, at the 2018 AIChE Annual Conference in Pittsburgh, The AIChE Foundation in partnership with Chevron co-hosted a session titled “Conscious Inclusion, Building Respectful and Inclusive Cultures”.

On Saturday, October 27th at the  2018 AIChE Annual Student Conference in Pittsburgh, the AIChE Foundation hosted the inaugural AIChE LGBTQ+ & Allies Ice Cream Social for students.

On September 22-23, 2018 thirty students from North Carolina State University came together after a week of canceled classes due to Hurricane Florence and a stack of extra assignments to learn about process safety.