Giving & Philanthropy

FOSSI Scholars Carol Akpan and Liyah Wilson joined program sponsors and prospective supporters for a roundtable discussion at the AIChE Spring Meeting in New Orleans.

Find out how these FOSSI Scholars plan to change the world with their STEM degrees.

In its relaunch for 2024, the AIChE Chemical Engineering for Good Challenge (ACE4G) will again award cash prizes for winning submissions from chemical engineering students.

Open up the world of engineering for a girl in your life through one of these opportunities.

Meet these FOSSI scholars who are pursuing their STEM career dreams at Howard University, Jackson State University, and North Carolina A&T State.

Meet these FOSSI scholars who are attending Hampton University, North Carolina A&T State University, Southern University, and Tuskegee University.

Meet these FOSSI Scholars who are pursuing STEM degrees at Delaware State University, Florida A&M University, North Carolina A&T State University, and Tuskegee University.

Meet these scholars who plan to improve the world with the STEM degrees they will earn at Prairie View A&M University, Spelman College, and North Carolina A&T State University.

The FOSSI program celebrates its new class of 132 FOSSI scholars, who are from 26 states and will be attending 26 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) this fall. See video.

Meet these FOSSI Scholars who are using their STEM scholarships to attend Hampton University, Morehouse College, and Norfolk State University.

Meet these 2022 FOSSI Scholars who are attending North Carolina Central University, North Carolina A&T State University, and Tennessee State University.

Meet these FOSSI Scholars who are pursuing STEM degrees at Tuskegee University, North Carolina A&T State University, and Morehouse College.

Read about the visit to Howard University, hear FOSSI scholars' feedback and requests from the initiative, and see more photos from the visit.

Get to know more about what interests these FOSSI scholars are what their plans and STEM career goals are for the future.

AIChE celebrated the contributions of Christophe Beck (Ecolab) and Michael K. Wirth (Chevron), and honored Paula T. Hammond (MIT) with the Doing a World of Good Medal.

Meet these scholars who are pursuing STEM degrees at Alcorn State University, Delaware State University, Tennessee State University, and Xavier University of Louisiana.

Learn about this chemical engineering team’s ACE4G experience working on a solar dehydrator to help local farmers add value to their product and reduce waste.

Find out more about the plans this year’s FOSSI scholars have for a future in STEM careers.

Learn where these FOSSI scholars are headed to college, and hear about the plans they have for STEM careers.

Meet these young Black scholars who have their eye on STEM careers and have already begun working towards STEM degrees at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

Meet these 2021 FOSSI Scholars from around the country and learn about their interests and aspirations.

Hear about the careers of other process engineers to learn how they entered the field and about their career choices, challenges, and successes.

Meet these four FOSSI Scholars and learn about their plans for STEM educations and careers.

Learn about the backgrounds and aspirations of these impressive FOSSI scholars. Know someone who would be a good candidate? Applications due February 15.

Meet four more impressive members of 2021’s class of FOSSI scholars who are off to college with their sights set on STEM careers.

Get a glimpse into the lives of some of the 2021 FOSSI scholars and learn about their achievements and aspirations.

Get a glimpse of some of young scholars in the 2021 FOSSI class and learn about some of their achievements and aspirations.

Learn how these chemical engineering students designed a sustainable power generation solution for rural communities, and find out what they learned in the process.

The in-person December 1 AIChE Gala will honor Moderna and its leadership as well as FOSSI and its founding partners for their contributions to the advancement of society.

Learn about how the IDEAL Path concept aims to give an equal opportunity to all who wish to join the chemical engineering community.

AIChE has launched a website to serve as a hub for all efforts supporting our goal of reaching 100% parity in the chemical engineering profession by 2050.  

AIChE is shaping the future of chemical engineering by ensuring the next generation of engineers and C-suite executives represent all walks of life.

Ava talks about the project in Tanzania she worked on with her EWB USA chapter at the University of Cincinnati.

Water purification using cactus? Hear how these chemical engineering students took advantage of a local and renewable resource to help improve lives in a community.

The inaugural award ceremony, which will recognize a recent chemical engineering graduate, will take place at the 2019 AIChE Annual Meeting.

A look back at achievements for women in the past year at AIChE and in the chemical engineering community, and an eye on the future.

The AIChE Gala raised approximately $570,000 to support efforts that expand women’s leadership programs, strengthen pre-college STEM education for girls, and improve the retention of women eng

Hear from prominent chemical engineers about their careers, their advice, and their take on where the chemical engineering profession is headed next.

Chemical engineer Eric S. Reiner's gift will contribute to AIChE's efforts to support the career objectives of chemical engineers in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ+) community.

Honored at the event were Bhavesh V. (Bob) Patel of LyondellBasell, Jim Fitterling of Dow, and Jack Futcher of Bechtel.

Your #GivingTuesday, All for Good gift will help support a range of programs for students, young professionals, women, underrepresented minority chemical engineers, and K-12.

Hear from Greg Yeo, Cato Laurencin, and Frances Arnold about their work and career paths.

In this interview hear from student travel grant winners from Vellore Institute of Technology, India, and Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia.

The UConn grant recipients discuss their experiences in helping a town in Ethiopia develop its water resources.

A recent CCPS Process Safety Bootcamp course, and the beneficial lessons learned there, were covered by a local TV station in Nebraska.

On Sunday, March 26th, the AIChE Foundation hosted its Corporate Council and Industry Leaders Forum to address the most pressing challenges facing the chemical engineering profession.

John Prausnitz is considered the founder of molecular thermodynamics, which transformed the ways in which chemical engineers learn and practice their profession. His humanistic approach t

In this interview hear from student travel grant winners from Xiangtan University, China; Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Sede Bogotá, Colombia; and Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia.

Nicaragua and Zambia may be in different hemispheres and have different engineering challenges but one thing they share is having benefited from the Engineers Without Borders Grant Award, sponsored

Technology that implants bacteria in mosquitos shows real hope for slowing or stopping the spread of both Zika and Dengue.

When Maria K. Burka began looking for jobs in chemistry, she was told not to use her first name on applications because “if the interviewer saw you were a woman, they wouldn’t even bother interviewing you.” Hear more in her audio interview.