Rosemarie Wesson

After completing her PhD, Wesson returned to Dow Chemical Company.^[2] She joined Louisiana State University as a professor of chemical engineering in 1991, where she was awarded both outstanding teaching and research awards.^[3][6] She joined the Battele Memorial Lab as a principal researcher and accepted another position at Dow as senior research leader in the Corporate Materials Science Research and Development Lab.^[2]

In 2001, Wesson joined the National Science Foundation and spent 13 years working in the divisions of transport, environmental, chemical and bioengineering.^[2][6][7] Her focus was on sustainable chemistry, engineering and materials.^[6] As a Program Director at NSF, she managed both small-business and academic research portfolios focused on energy, nanotechnology, emerging research opportunities and the field of chemical and biological separations.^[3] She received the NSF Director's awards for Collaborative Integration and the Director's Award for Superior Accomplishment. She also served as an adjunct professor at University of Maryland, College Park.^[8] After working at NSF, Wesson became principal researcher at Battelle Memorial Institute, where she developed the Odyssey Atlasphere.^[3]

Wesson joined City College of New York as dean of research in 2015.^[3] She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.^[9] She has served on their board of directors and won the 2014 Minority Action Committee Eminent Chemical Engineers Award for services to minority groups.^[10][9] She contributes to the American Society for Engineering Education.^[8] In 2018, she became the first woman treasurer of AIChE.^[11]

Dr. Wesson has authored and co-authored numerous technical papers in the area of numerical analyses of polymer crystallization kinetics, structure property relationships of crystalline materials, and finite-element analyses of polymeric flows.^[3][12]