Nina McClelland Memorial Award Past Recipients

Congratulations to past recipients of the Nina McClelland Memorial Award, which聽sponsors the participation of postdoctoral scholars from both U.S. and international institutions to attend the annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference and present their work in a talk or poster.

Please read the award announcement for the 2025 winners published in The Nexus blog:

2025 Recipients

Christopher Koch,聽Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC

Xin Liu,聽Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

2024 Recipients

Thomas Auvray,聽University of Birmingham, UK

Xin Liu,聽脡cole Polytechnique F茅d茅rale de Lausanne (EPFL) , Switzerland

2023 Recipients

Shivali Banerjee,聽University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Research:聽Green process for enhanced recovery of anthocyanins as valuable co-products from bioenergy crops in a biorefinery

Liwei Ye,聽Northwestern University
Research: Rationally tailored catalysts for highly efficient chemical recycling of nylon-6 and for achieving a circular economy towards end-of-life plastics.

2022 Recipients

Juliana Vidal,聽McGill University
Research Focus:聽Valorization of crustacean waste into value-added products using methods such as mechanochemistry.

Vinod Landge,聽University of Toledo
Research Focus:聽Transition metal-catalyzed regioselective functionalization of alkenyl amines.