Heh-Won Chang, PhD Fellowship in Green Chemistry Past Recipients

Congratulations to past recipients of the Heh-Won Chang, PhD Fellowship in Green Chemistry, which聽provides financial support to full-time graduate students conducting research in green chemistry and/or engineering.

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

2025 Recipients

Swabiiha Buxoo
University of Mauritus, Mauritus

Tom Nelis
脡cole Polytechnique F茅d茅rale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland聽

2024 Recipients

Georgia Douglas
Universtiy of Victoria
Research:聽Chitosan-based hydrogels for arsenic detection in drinking water

David Kenney
Worcester Polytechnic Institute聽
Research:聽Sustainably maximizing carbon throughput from post-consumer municipal solid waste

2023 Recipients

Elanna Neppel
Michigan State University
Research:聽Zero to Hero: Zero-Valued Plastic Waste Upcycled into Kevlar庐

Ming-en Fei
Washington State University
Research: Modifications of epoxy vitrimer systems and their applications

2022 Recipients

Jianan Gao聽
New Jersey Institute of Technology聽
Research Focus:聽Electrified membrane flow-cell technology for more sustainable water filtration and the upcycling of nitrate removed to valuable commodity chemicals.

Cristi谩n Pacheco Woroch
Standford University
Research Focus:聽Sustainable performance-advantaged polyamides sourced from lignocellulose and CO2.

2021 Recipients

Gabriela Gastelu聽
National University of C贸rdoba, Argentina
Research Focus:聽Design of new synthetic strategies for the utilization of captured CO2 to make organocatalysts that assist in the transformation of CO2聽into C1 building blocks.

Tessa Myren
University of Colorado, Boulder
Research Focus:聽Greener and safer closed-loop recycling of CO2 and plastics using electrochemistry, mild conditions and earth-abundant electrocatalysts to break down polymers into CO and building material (carbonate).

2020 Recipients

Heather LeClerc
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
Research Focus:聽Hydrothermal liquefaction to produce bio-crude from municipal food waste.

Nakisha Mark
University of West Indies, Trinidad
Research Focus: The conversion of furfural into biofuels using nanocatalysts comprised of earth-abundant metals.