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Institute News
November
2025

AIChE Presents 2025 Board of Directors’ and Institute Awards at Annual Meeting in Boston

imagesDuring the 2025 AIChE Annual Meeting in Boston, MA (Nov. 2–6, 2025), AIChE formally recognized some of the chemical engineering profession’s most accomplished researchers, educators, and innovators with its Board of Directors’ and Institute Awards. As part of the Annual Meeting, the 2025 Honors Ceremony took place on Sunday, Nov. 2, from 5:00–6:30 pm.

Each year, AIChE members have the chance to recognize their peers by nominating them for the Institute Awards; recipients of the Institute Awards are selected by AIChE’s Award Selection Subcommittee. Candidates for the Board of Directors’ Awards are nominated by the community and chosen by the Board Awards Committee. Members from all areas of industry and academia are encouraged to submit nominations for future awards.

To learn more about the Institute and Board of Directors’ Awards, visit www.aiche.org/awards. And this fall, check out the ChEnected blog to read profiles of the 2025 award recipients: www.aiche.org/chenected.

Board of Directors’ Award

F. J. and Dorothy Van Antwerpen Award for Service to the Institute

Sangtae Kim

Sponsor: The Dow Chemical Co.

Sangtae Kim, Purdue University (retired)

For contributions to the chemical engineering profession in streamlining the programming of the national AIChE meetings and new insights on viscous particulate flows.

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