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The Ann and Joe Hightower AwardThe Ann and Joe Hightower Superior Award in Chemical Engineering recognizes a top graduating student for outstanding academic scholarship and service to the chemical engineering department. It is the highest academic award given by the Rice Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department. The award carries a plaque and a $3,000 prize. It was endowed in 2002 through the generous contribution of Ann and Joe Hightower. Ann Hightower received a Masters degree from our department in 1980. She spent her career at ExxonMobil Chemical and led ExxonMobil’s engineering recruiting at Rice for more than a decade. Joe Hightower joined the Rice Chemical Engineering department in 1967 and is a well-recognized expert in catalysis. He served Rice as Department Chair from 1995-98 and was a member or chair of our Undergraduate Committee for many years. Even after his retirement in 2001, Prof. Hightower continues to serve the department in many capacities including the supervision of his famous micro-catalytic reactor experiment.
Past Recipients
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