{"65712":{"#nid":"65712","#data":{"type":"news","title":"School Chair Ronald Rousseau Receives 2011 Malcolm E. Pruitt Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERonald W. Rousseau,\nCecil J. \u0022Pete\u0022 Silas Chair and Chair of the School of Chemical \u0026amp;\nBiomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech, has been named the recipient of the Council for Chemical Research\u0026nbsp;2011 Malcolm\nE. Pruitt Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe award includes a plaque that will be presented during a\nspecial ceremony at the 32nd Council for Chemical Research annual meeting May 1-3 in\nDetroit, Mich.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Malcolm E. Pruitt Award has been given annually since\n1985 to recognize outstanding contributions to research progress in the\nchemical sciences and engineering while interacting among industrial, academic\nand government research sections. \u0026nbsp;Rousseau\nis the 3rd Georgia Tech engineering professor to receive this award.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ERousseau has served as chair of ChBE since joining the\nGeorgia Tech faculty in 1987. He also has served two terms as interim director of the\u0026nbsp;Institute of Paper Science \u0026amp; Technology at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPreviously, he was a faculty member at\nNorth Carolina State University and a visiting professor at Princeton\nUniversity. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. from Louisiana State\nUniversity. His research has explored numerous areas related to separation\nprocesses and resulted in more than 190 journal articles, book chapters, and\nmonographs and more than 250 presentations at technical meetings and seminars\nfor industry and universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmong his many awards and honors, Rousseau received the Warren K. Lewis Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Clarence G. Gerhold Award from the Separations Division of the AIChE and the Forest Products Award given by the Forest Products Division of AIChE. He is a fellow of both AIChE and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was selected for the LSU Engineering Hall of Distinction. On the occasion of the AIChE Centennial, he was cited by AIChE as one of 30 authors of groundbreaking chemical engineering books. In January 2010, he was awarded a\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EDocteur Honoris Causa\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;by L\u2019Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERousseau is the 3rd Georgia Tech faculty member to receive the annual award that recognizes outstanding contributions to research progress in the chemical sciences and engineering while interacting among industrial, academic and government research sections. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ronald W. Rousseau, Chair of the School of Chemical \u0026 Biomolecular Engineering, honored by the Council for Chemical Research."}],"uid":"27462","created_gmt":"2011-04-22 09:25:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:38","author":"Liz Klipp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-04-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-04-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"65716":{"id":"65716","type":"image","title":"Ronald W. Rousseau","body":null,"created":"1449176863","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:07:43","changed":"1475894582","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:02","alt":"Ronald W. 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