Rank/Role: Emerita/Emeritus

Karen K. Gleason

Research Interests

chemical vapor deposition, membranes, organic surfaces, interfaces, and devices

Education

Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1987

S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982

S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982

Publications

Honors and Awards

AIChE’s Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement by a Woman Chemical Engineer, 2021

John M. Prausnitz AIChE Institute Lecturer Award, 2019

Charles M.A. Stine Award, 2015

Elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2015

Elected AIChE Fellow, 2013

AIChE Process Development Research Award, 2012

Printed Electronics Europe Best Materials Award, 2011

Keynote speaker, 23rd Int’l Conf. on Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Semiconductors, 2009

Chair, 5th Intl. Conf on Hot-Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition, August 2008

Donders Visiting Prof., Utrecht University, Netherlands, 2006

Excellence Award, SEMATECH, 2000

Tenth Annual Van Ness Award Lecturer, RPI, 2000

Chair, Gordon Conference of Diamond Synthesis, Oxford UK, 1998

Presidential Young Investigator, National Science Foundation, 1990

Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research, 1990

Amoco Foundation Fellow, 1982-85

NCAA Post-graduate Fellow, 1982

All-American NCAA Division III Swimming, 1978-82

Gregory J. McRae

Research Interests

atmospheric processes responsible for oxidant formation, acid deposition and global climate, particulate dynamics, chemical transport and transformations in multimedia environments environmental science and engineering, process modeling, numerical analysis and optimization

Education

Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1981

M.S., California Institute of Technology, 1975

B.E., Monash University, Australia, 1971

Publications

Honors and Awards

Foremost-McKesson Foundation Fellowship, Caltech

Oscar Weigel Exhibition in Engineering, Monash University

Production Equip. Prize and Solid Mechanics Prize, Monash Univ

AAAS U.S. EPA Environmental Science Fellowship

National Computer Graphics Prize, 1991

The Niccograph Scientific Visualization Prize, 1991

CGS of Japan Award for Scientific Visualization, 1991

Forefronts of Computational Science Award, 1990

George Tallman Ladd Research Prize, 1985

Presidential Young Investigator Award, NSF, 1984

Current Technical and Government Committees: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Member of Review Panels)

National Research Council (Two current committees)

NAS (Panel on Destruction of Chemical Warfare Agents)

Advisory Board of the Combustion Research Facility at SANDIA

U.S. DoE Science Advisory Board for Advanced Scientific Computing

Five editorial boards