MSE Professor Yun Hang Hu was honored with an impressive set of recognitions during the last year. Professor Hu was elected Fellow of both the American Chemical Society (ACS) and ASM International for his impactful contributions and developments in materials synthesis and catalyst science. In addition, Professor Hu received the Distinguished Service Award from the Energy and Fuels Division of the American Chemical Society. For more information:
With the two latest Fellow recognitions, Professor Hu is a now a Fellow of five organizations. He was previously named Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC, 2013), Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE, 2013), and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, 2014).
Professor Hu is the Charles and Carroll McArthur Endowed MSE Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. He joined MSE and Michigan Tech in 2007, and has made impactful contributions in the area of the science and engineering of materials for energy applications. He received the Michigan Tech Research Award in 2017 and was a co-recipient (an award shared with his graduate student Wei Wei) of the Bhakta Rath Research Award in the same year.