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August 22, 2005 Volume 30, Issue 3 |
Engineering professor gets NSF award
A Mississippi State chemical engineering professor is receiving $400,000 over five years as a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award for junior faculty members nationwide.
Dr. Priscilla Hill, an assistant professor in the Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering, has won a 2005 NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award to support her research and education in the field of particle technology.
NSF funds about 11,000 grants per year totaling more than $5 billion. The CAREER awards program funds 300-400 awards annually for a total of approximately $83 million. In the CAREER program, each grant or award goes to a single researcher.
Hill, who will receive $400,000 over a five-year period, is the first member of MSU’s chemical engineering faculty to receive the major honor. She received the honor for her research on “A Multi-scale Approach to Particle Breakage in Stirred Vessels and Its Integration into Education.”