Bibek Sapkota has 18 years of industrial experience in various operating and engineering companies as an engineer in process operations support and process safety. He has served as the Global Process Safety Engineer at W. R. Grace & Co. for three years, providing process safety/risk guidance and support to facilities worldwide in process hazard analysis (PHA), facility siting, consequence modeling, acceptable discharge locations and implementation of process safety programs. His most recent role is Process Safety Manager-Americas at W. R. Grace. He has a BS in chemical engineering from...Read more
Nick Ashley, PhD, P.E., is currently a process safety engineer for ExxonMobil in Baton Rouge, LA. He previously served as the Global Director, Process Safety at W. R. Grace & Co. where he led the development and implementation of Grace’s process safety program. He has 19 years of chemical engineering practice in specialty chemicals including process design and development, economic analysis, plant start-up, and process safety. The last nine years have been devoted exclusively to process safety and loss prevention for several multinational companies. He received BS and PhD degrees in...Read more
George Chen is being honored for his contributions to the development of next-generation industrial biotechnology based on extremophiles for unsterile and continuous production of biochemicals.
Bryn L. Adams received a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Biology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2009. She first joined a collaborative research project, as a National Academy of Sciences postdoctoral fellow, between DEVCOM Chemical Biological Center (CBC) under Dr. Jay Valdes, and the Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology Research at the University of Maryland at College Park under Dr. William Bentley. Her work focused on the development of non-specific threat agent detection using biological sensing and signal transduction pathways. Dr. Adams joined the DEVCOM Army...Read more
Minority students pursuing chemical engineering have Henry Brown, Gerry Lessells, and Jimmy Wei to thank for the creation of the Minority Affairs Community. Now Henry's legacy continues as a group of Trustees, past and present, take up the helm to revitalize the Brown Endowment. With 20% of our annual goal of $100,000 secured already, we invite you to join us by gifting inspiration to the next generation and introducing them to the bold possibilities that await one in science and engineering.
