Dr. Benny Freeman, professor of chemical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, was elected president of the North American Membrane Society (NAMS) at the same meeting where two other faculty were honored for helping found the society .
Freeman, the Mathew Van Winkle Regents Professor in Chemical Engineering, will serve as NAMS president for a year. As president, he intends to expand the society’s educational initiatives and oversee the organization of its national meetings.
Freeman has helped judge NAMS student competitions and has served in other capacities for nearly a decade. Since 2001, he has been a member of the society’s board of directors. That following year, he joined the university’s College of Engineering as a faculty member.
He was inducted as president at the NAMS national meeting in Providence, Rhode Island. At the same meeting in June, 10 of the founding members of the society were recognized. They include Dr. Douglas Lloyd, chemical engineering professor, and Dr. Donald Paul, director of the university’s Texas Materials Institute.
Lloyd, who holds the Henry Beckman Professorship in Chemical Engineering, served on the NAMS board of directors for 11 years and as the society’s president in 1994. Paul, the Ernest Cockrell Sr. Chair in Engineering, is also a former member of the board of directors, and received this year’s Alan S. Michaels Award from the society.
For a previous announcement about the Michaels award and another award Paul recently received, go to http://www.engr.utexas.edu/news/articles/20050531838/index.cfm
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