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Rosemarie Wesson
Rosemarie Wesson is the Associate Dean of Research at City College of New York. She was the first African-American woman to receive a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan. She has worked at the National Science Foundation, Louisiana State University and Dow Chemical Company. EducationWesson was born in Illinois.[1] Wesson studied chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] After her degree, she joined Dow Chemical Company as a researcher in polymer rheology.[2] She earned her PhD at the University of Michigan in 1988.[1] She was the first African-American woman to earn a PhD at the University of Michigan in chemical engineering.[1] Her dissertation topic was the computer-aided analysis of viscoelastic flow.[1] She has since returned, speaking at the annual graduate symposium and winning the alumni merit award.[3][4] CareerAfter completing her PhD, Wesson returned to Dow Chemical Company.[1] She joined Louisiana State University as a professor of chemical engineering in 1991, where she was awarded both outstanding teaching and research awards.[2][5] She joined the Battele Memorial Lab as a principal researcher and accepted another position at Dow as senior research leader in the Corporate Materials Science Research and Development Lab.[1] In 2001, Wesson joined the National Science Foundation and spent 13 years working in the divisions of transport, environmental, chemical and bioengineering.[1][5][6] Her focus was on sustainable chemistry, engineering and materials.[5] As a Program Director at NSF, she managed both small-business and academic research portfolios focused on energy, nanotechnology, emerging research opportunities and the field of chemical and biological separations.[2] She received the NSF Director's awards for Collaborative Integration and the Director's Award for Superior Accomplishment. She also served as an adjunct professor at University of Maryland, College Park.[7] After working at NSF, Wesson became principal researcher at Battelle Memorial Institute, where she developed the Odyssey Atlasphere.[2] Wesson joined City College of New York as dean of research in 2015.[2] She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.[8] She has served on their board of directors and won the 2014 Minority Action Committee Eminent Chemical Engineers Award for services to minority groups.[9][8] She contributes to the American Society for Engineering Education.[7] In 2018, she became the first woman treasurer of AIChE.[10] ResearchDr. Wesson has authored and co-authored numerous technical papers in the area of numerical analyses of polymer crystallization kinetics, structure property relationships of crystalline materials, and finite-element analyses of polymeric flows.[2][11] References
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