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 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 Green Chemistry Award Winners Announced

2025 Recipients

Swabiiha Buxoo
University of Mauritus, Mauritus

Tom Nelis
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland 

2024 Recipients

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

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

2023 Recipients

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

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

2022 Recipients

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

Cristián Pacheco Woroch
Standford University
Research Focus: Sustainable performance-advantaged polyamides sourced from lignocellulose and CO₂.

2021 Recipients

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

Tessa Myren
University of Colorado, Boulder
Research Focus: 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: 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.