Rosemarie Wesson | |
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| Fields | Polymer science and engineering |
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Rosemarie Wesson is the associate vice chancellor and university vice provost for research at City College of New York [1] . 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.
Wesson was born in Illinois. [2] Wesson studied chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [3] After her degree, she joined Dow Chemical Company as a researcher in polymer rheology. [3] She earned her PhD at the University of Michigan in 1988. [2] She was the first African-American woman to earn a PhD at the University of Michigan in chemical engineering. [2] Her dissertation topic was the computer-aided analysis of viscoelastic flow. [2] She has since returned, speaking at the annual graduate symposium and winning the alumni merit award. [4] [5]
After completing her PhD, Wesson returned to Dow Chemical Company. [2] She joined Louisiana State University as a professor of chemical engineering in 1991, where she was awarded both outstanding teaching and research awards. [3] [6] 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. [2]
In 2001, Wesson joined the National Science Foundation and spent 13 years working in the divisions of transport, environmental, chemical and bioengineering. [2] [6] [7] Her focus was on sustainable chemistry, engineering and materials. [6] 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. [3] 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. [8] After working at NSF, Wesson became principal researcher at Battelle Memorial Institute, where she developed the Odyssey Atlasphere. [3]
Wesson joined City College of New York as dean of research in 2015. [3] She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. [9] She has served on their board of directors and won the 2014 Minority Action Committee Eminent Chemical Engineers Award for services to minority groups. [10] [9] She contributes to the American Society for Engineering Education. [8] In 2018, she became the first woman treasurer of AIChE. [11]
Dr. 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. [3] [12]
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