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Brennecke Wins Prausnitz Award

The Conference on Properties and Phase Equilibria for Product and Process Design has awarded the 2007 John M. Prausnitz Award for outstanding achievement in applied chemical thermodynamics to Joan F. Brennecke, the Keating-Crawford Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and director of the Notre Dame Energy Center.

Brennecke was cited for her pioneering work in molecular thermodynamics of separations with ionic liquids (ILs) and local composition effects on reactions in supercritical fluids during the award presentation at the 11th international conference earlier this year. The Prausnitz award is the most recent in a long line of honors she has received for her research, which focuses on the experimental aspects of thermodynamics and separations.

A faculty member since 1989, Brennecke is a member of the American Chemical Society, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and American Society for Engineering Education. She also serves on the editorial board of Green Chemistry and is chair of the Council for Chemical Research.