Faculty Awards

Michael G. Benton

Dow Excellence-in-Teaching Award, 2021
William A. Brookshire Award for Teaching Excellence, 2018
Dow Excellence in Teaching Award, 2018
TAF Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2017
Dean's Instructor of Excellence "Student Choice Award," 2016
Dow Excellence-in-Teaching Award, 2016
Dean's Instructor of Excellence "Student Choice Award," 2015
Dow Excellence-in-Teaching Award, 2015
Dow Excellence-in-Teaching Award, 2014
Dow Excellence-in-Teaching Award, 2013
LSU Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2010
Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, 2009
Pilot Funding for New Research (PFUND) Grant, Louisiana Experimental Program to Stimulate

Bhuvnesh Bharti

LSU Alumni Association Rising Faculty Research Award, 2021
Symposium Session Chair, 88th and 90th ACS Colloid & Surface Science Symposium, June 2014 & 2016
Invited Reviewer: Adv. Funct. Mater., Nanoscale, J. Am. Chem. Soc., J. Mater. Chem., Chem. Commun., Soft Matter, New J. Chem., J. Coll. Inter. Sci., RSC Adv.

Kunlun Ding

Michael R. Mangham TAF Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2020
Peer Reviewer: Catal. Sci. Technol., Chem. Commun., J. Mater. Chem., RSC Adv., CrystEngComm, New J. Chem., Dalton Trans., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

Kerry M. Dooley

Awards & Honors

SWCS Award for Excellence in Applied Catalysis, 2016
Donald Clayton Graduate Mentoring Award, Louisiana State University, 2005
BASF Corp. Endowed Professorship, 1998
Alan Berman Research Publication Award, Naval Research Laboratory, 1992
Fulbright Scholar, University of Twente (Netherlands), 1991
Harold A. Levey Alumni Medal, Tulane University, 1987
Cross-Holloway Research Award, Louisiana State University, 1985

Activities & Leadership Roles

Catalysis Society, Southwest: Chair, 2004-05; Director, 2005-06, 2009-10
Oklahoma Biofuels Center, External Advisory Board, 2009-12
Associate Editor, RSC Catalysis Series, 2007-10, 2012-present
Executive Board, North American Catalysis Society, 2011-13
North American Catalysis Society, North American Meeting Chair, 2007
- - - - AIChE, National Program Committee, Chair Group 1f (High Pressure), 2004-05; Program Chair, 2003-04

John C. Flake

Chair and Organizer, International Symposia on 3D and Damascene Interconnects, Vienna, 2009
Chair Low-K and Interconnect Symposia ECS, 2005-08
Peer Reviewer: Journal Electrochemical Society, Electrochemical and Solid State Letters, Particle & Particle Systems Characterization
Industry Consultant: Intel, AMD, Amberwave

Kevin M. McPeak

Awards & Honors

LSU Alumni Association Rising Faculty Research Award, 2018
National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2017
Dow Excellence-in-Teaching Award, 2017
BASF Sustainability Lab Recipient, Louisiana State University, 2016
Most Downloaded Paper, ACS Photonics, 2015

Activities & Leadership Roles

NSF CBET Panelist, Winter 2016

K. Nandakumar

Awards & Honors

LSU Alumni Association Faculty Excellence Award, 2021
Worley Professor of Excellence Award, 2020
Erudite Scholar, Cochin University of Science & Technology, March 14-18, 2016
Distinguished Alumni Award from National Institute of Technology, May 2009
Elected member of the World Council of Chemical Engineers, June 2008
RS Jane Memorial Award, the premier award from The Canadian Society for Chemical Engineers, presented annually to an individual who has made significant contributions to chemical engineering or industrial chemistry in Canada, October 2008
The Frank Spragins Technical Award given by APEGGA SUMMIT Awards in April 2008 in recognition by peers of integrity, expertise and outstanding accomplishments in the field of engineering
Shrimati Kusumben and Shri Mathradas Kothari Visiting Professorship in Chemical Engineering conferred by UICT, Mumbai, 2008
Elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, 2007
Elected Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada, 2007
C. K. Murthy Memorial Lecture Award delivered at the CHEMCON 2006 held in Ankleshwar, India, Dec 27-30, 2006
- - - - Prof. B. D. Tilak Visiting Fellowship from the UICT, Mumbai, 2004-05
        
        Saritorius Chemcon-2003 Distinguished speaker award, Dec 2003. IIChE, India
        
        The APEGGA Excellence in Education Award, 2002
        
        The AC Rutherford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2001
        
        ESTAC Award for Meritorious Research, 2000
        
        Elected Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada, 1991
        
        Albright & Albright & Wilson Americas Award, 1991. An annual award given by the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering for distinguished contribution in chemical engineering before the age of 40.
        
        Teaching awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching within the Department of Chemical Engineering for 1985, 1991, 1997-98, 1998-99, and 2000-01

Activities & Leadership Roles

- - - - Member, Organizing committee for the CFD symposium during 8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Aug 2009
        
        Vice-chair of conference ICCHMT '09, Guangzhou, May 18-21, 2009
        
        Member of Canadian organizing committee for CHEMCON 2006, Ankleshwar, India, December 27-30, 2006
        
        Member of Organizing committee for the 2005 Western Canada Fuel Cell Symposium
        
        Reviewer to the following journals: AIChEJ, J. Heat Transfer, Can. J. Chem. Eng., Chemical Engineering communications, Chemical Engineering Science, Physics of Fluids A, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Fluids Engineering, International Journal of Heat Mass Transfer, Proc. Roy Soc.
        
        Editor, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Jan 2005 – Dec 2009
        
        Member of Advisory Board of Chemical and Engineering Technology since Sept 2007
        
        Member of Editorial Board of The Open Energy and Fuels Journal since May 2007
        
        Member of Editorial Board of Indian Chemical Engineer since Dec 2006
        
        Keynote speaker at the PPS 2004 Americas Regional Meeting, Florianopolis, Brazil, 2004
        
        Distinguished speaker series lecture at University of Waterloo, October 1996 and March 2004

José A. Romagnoli

Worley Professor of Excellence Award, 2020
PSE Model-Based Innovation Prize from Process Systems Enterprise Limited, 2008
Best Paper Award, International Congress Methodologies for Emerging Technologies in Automation Conference, 2006
Engineers Australia John A. Brodie Medal, 2005
Centenary Medal of Australia, 2003 (awarded by Prime Minister of Australia)
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, 1999
Award for Best Innovation Work within the Plastics Division at Orica Botany Site, 1997
Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1996
Worldwide, ICI Award of Innovation, Creativity, and Excellence in Engineering, 1995

James J. Spivey

Awards & Honors

2020 Charles E. Coates Memorial Award
Council for Chemical Research's Collaboration Success Award
Southwest Catalysis Society Award for Excellence in Applied Catalysis
2009 LSU Rainmaker
2008 LSU Rainmaker
Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2007
Editorial Board, Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier, Amsterdam), 1999-present
Associate Editor, Catalysis Today (Elsevier, Amsterdam), 1994-present
Editorial Board, Journal of Advanced Oxidation Technologies, 1994-97
Editorial Board, I & EC Research (American Chemical Society, Washington, DC), 1994-96

Activities & Leadership Roles

- - - - Symposium Organizer, "Fuel Processing," ACS National Meeting, Boston, Aug. 2007
        
        International Scientific Board, 8th International Conference on Environmental Catalysis; Belfast, Ireland, 2008
        
        Organizer (with Burt Davis, Univ. Kentucky) and Scientific Committee Chair, 9th International Symposium on Catalyst Deactivation, Lexington, KY, October 7-10, 2001
        
        Technical Program Co-Chair (with Enrique Iglesia, Univ. California-Berkeley), 6th Natural Gas Conversion Symposium, Anchorage, Alaska, June 17-22, 2001
        
        Symposium Organizer and Co-Chair (with B. W-L. Jang and M. Boutonnet), "Catalysis and Plasma Technology," ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC, August 20-25, 2000
        
        Symposium Organizer and Co-Chair (with S.K. Gangwal, J.R. Zoeller, J. Winslow, R.D. Srivastava), "Conversion of Syngas to Fuels and Chemicals," ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 21-25, 1999
        
        Scientific Committee Member and Session Chair, 2nd World Congress on Environmental Catalysis, Miami, FL, November 15-20, 1998
        
        Session Organizer and Chair, "Control of Air Emissions," Florida Conference on Environmental Catalysis, Palm Coast, FL, December 2-6, 1997
        
        Symposium Organizer and Co-Chair (with U. Ozkan), "NOx Control," ACS National Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, September, 1997
        
        Symposium Co-Chair, "Catalysis in Treatment of Emissions," 15th Meeting of the North American Catalysis Society, Chicago, IL, May 18-23, 1997
        
        Organizing Committee and Scientific Committee Member, 3rd International Workshop on Catalytic Combustion, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 25-28, 1996
        
        Organizing Committee, 2nd International Conference on Unsteady-State Processes in Catalysis, St. Louis, MO, September 10-13, 1995
        
        Organizing Committee and Session Chairman, "Air Purification," Florida Catalysis Conference, Palm Coast, FL, October 31-November 3, 1995
        
        Session Co-Chair, "Symposium on NOx Control," ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March,1994
        
        Symposium Chair "Catalyst Deactivation," 13th North American Meeting of the Catalysis Society, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1993
        
        Symposium Co-Chair, "VOC Control," Symposium on Environmental Catalysis, ACS National Meeting, Denver, CO, March 1993
        
        Session Organizer and Co-Chair, "Complete Catalytic Oxidation," AIChE Spring National Meeting, Houston, Texas, April 1989
        
        Session Organizer and Co-Chair, "Fundamentals of Kinetics and Catalysis," AIChE Winter Meeting, Orlando, Florida, March 1982

Harold J. Toups

Worley Professor of Excellence Award, 2021
William A. Brookshire Award for Teaching Excellence, 2018
LSU CxC Outstanding Faculty Award, 2018
Wetzel Award, 2018
Wetzel Award, 2017
TAF Michael R. Mangham CoE Memorial Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2015

Kalliat T. Valsaraj

Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, 2018
Jacobs Professor of Excellence Award, 2017
Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), 2015
2010 LSU Rainmaker
Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), December 2009
Rotary International Vocational Excellence Award, Rotary Club of Cannanore North, Kerala, India, January 2009
Elected Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), June 2008
Excellence in Review Award, Environmental Science and Technology – an ACS publication, June 2007
Donald W. Clayton Faculty Mentor Award, LSU College of Engineering, April 2006

Judy Wornat

Awards & Honors

2009 LSU Rainmaker
President of the International Society for Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds, 2005-07
Recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 1996

Activities & Leadership Roles

Editorial Board of the journal Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds, since 2004
Editorial Board of the journal Fuel, since 1995
Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Energy and Fuels, 2000-02
Invited international member of a committee of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, to evaluate applicants for a professorship in Energy and Process Technology, 2004
Advisory Board of the Center for Applied Energy Research at the University of Kentucky, 1995-01
Executive Committee of the International Society for Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds, 2003-07
Executive Committee of the International Congress on Toxic Combustion By-Products, 2003-07
- - - - Co-Chair of Colloquium on Soot, PAH, and Air Toxics, Twenty-Seventh International Combustion Symposium, Boulder, Colorado, 1998
        
        Co-Chair of Colloquium on Soot, PAH, and Air Toxics, Twenty-Eighth International Combustion Symposium, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2000
        
        Executive Committee of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute
        
        Publications Committee for the Twenty-Fourth (1992), Twenty-Fifth (1994), Twenty-Sixth (1996), and Twenty-Seventh (1998) International Combustion Symposia
        
        Program Advisory Subcommittee for the American Chemical Society Division of Fuel Chemistry
        
        Research review panels of the National Science Foundation, the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U. S. Department of Energy
        
        Consultant to the U. S. Department of Energy, on Toxic Substances from Coal Combustion Program, 1995-97
        
        Consultant to Physical Sciences, Incorporated, as Advisory Panel Member of the Air Toxic Emissions from Coal Combustion Program, 1998-00
        
        Scientific Advisory Committee of the Twenty-Second International symposium on Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds, 2008-09
        
        Chair of Technical Session for the following sessions and meetings:
        
        Reaction Mechanisms in Coal, Twenty-Fifth International Combustion Symposium, Irvine, California, 1994
        
        Organic Waste Combustion, Twenty-Sixth International Combustion Symposium, Naples, Italy, 1996
        
        Soot and PAH, Twenty-Seventh International Combustion Symposium, Boulder, Colorado, 1998
        
        Thermal Treatment - Reactions at Low Temperatures, Sixth International Congress on Toxic Combustion By-Products, Karlsruhe, Germany, 1999
        
        Soot and PAH, Twenty-Eighth International Combustion Symposium, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2000
        
        Complex Mixtures and Systems, Seventh International Congress on By-Products of Combustion, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 2001
        
        Source and Distribution, Eighteenth International Symposium on Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2001
        
        PAH/Soot Formation, Control, and Health Effects, Eighth International Congress on Toxic Combustion By-Products, Umeå, Sweden, 2003
        
        Atmospheric Reactions, Twenty-First International Symposium on Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds, Trondheim, Norway, 2007
        
        Soot Chemistry, Thirty-Second International Combustion Symposium, Montreal