ACS Award for Team Innovation Recipients

Congratulations to the past recipients of the ACS Award for Team Innovation, which highlights the value and importance of technical teams and teamwork to the chemical and allied industries by recognizing a multidisciplinary team for successfully moving an innovative idea to a product in commercial use now.


  • 2024 - Catherine A. Bothof, Angelines Castro Forero, Jonathan F. Hester, Jerald K. Rasmussen, and John Schmidt
  • 2023 - Sean O'Bryan Bowser, Adam R. Brown, Nga M. Do, Shane A. Eisenbeis, Aran K. Hubbell, Richard Li, Matthew L. Marchewka, Ryan S. O'Neill, Giselle Padilla Reyes, Frank Riley, Philipp C. Roosen, John F. Sagal, Omar A. Salman, Karen Sutherland, Qi 'Tony' Yan, and Ming Zeng
  • 2022 - Philip Fontaine, Douglas S. Ginger, Suzanne Guerra, Pradeep Jain, and Jian Wang
  • 2021 - François Beaume, Jean-Michel Espenan, Walter P. Kosar Jr., Olivier Lorain, Gregory S. O’Brien, and Roderick Reber III
  • 2020 - Otto J. Berbée, Jaap den Doelder, Lori L. Kardos, Teresa Karjala, and Joe Ortega
  • 2019 - Eric K. Lin, Vivek M. Prabhu, Christopher L. Soles, and Wen-li Wu
  • 2018 - Vladimir G. Beylin, Brian P. Chekal, Nga M. Do, David W. Fry , Nathan D. Ide, Brian P. Jones, Peter L. Toogood, and Hairong 'Angela' Zhou
  • 2017 - Robert A. De Vries, Philip Garrou, Carol E. Mohler, Eric S. Moyer, and Theodore M. Stokich, Jr.
  • 2016 - Matthew F. Brown,  Paul S. Changelian, Mark E. Flanagan, Michael J. Munchhof, and Chakrapani Subramanyam
  • 2015 - Ryan Gaston, James Keenihan, Abhijit Namjoshi, Stephen Pisklak, and Jason A. Reese
  • 2014 - Ramin Amin-Sanayei, Kevin Hanrahan, John Stuligross, Roice Wille, and Kurt Wood
  • 2013 - Dustin Caldwell, April Carman, Glen E. Fryxell, Kenneth G. Rappé, and Thomas S. Zemanian
  • 2012 - Raymond E. Boucher, James E. Dripps, Donald E. Kelley, and Nick D. Simmons
  • 2011 - Patricia Burns, Chieh-Min Cheng, Grazyna Kmiecik-Lawrynowicz, and Tie Hwee Ng
  • 2010 - Daniel Cordova, John H. Freudenberger, Thomas P. Selby, and Thomas M. Stevenson
  • 2009 - Hai-Ying Chen, Neal W. Currier, Howard S. Hess, Bradlee J. Stroia, and Aleksey Yezerets
  • 2008 - Stanley Collins and Scott R. Culler
  • 2007 - Michael R. Barbachyn, Steven J. Brickner, Douglas K. Hutchinson, and Peter R. Manninen
  • 2006 - Charles Harbert, B. K. Koe, Reinhard Sarges, Albert Weissman, and Willard Welch
  • 2005 - S. Randall Holmes-Farley and W. Harry Mandeville
  • 2004 - Steven A. Van Slyke and Ching W. Tang
  • 2003 - Charles R. Harrison, George P. Lahm, Stephen F. McCann, Rafael Shapiro, and Keith D. Wing
  • 2001 - James M. Davidson, Francis M. Houlihan, Arturo N. Medina, Omkaram Nalamasu, and Ashok T. Reddy
  • 2002 - Karl Amundson, Zhenan Bao, Ananth Dodabalapur, Paul S. Drzaic, and John A. Rogers
  • 2000 - Juan P. Arhancet, Hoe H. Chuah, Donald R. Kelsey, Joseph B. Powell, and Paul R. Weider
  • 1999 - Richard R. Bott, David Estell, Thomas P. Graycar, Michael Showell, and Manuel Venegas
  • 1998 - James H. Anderson, Ronald E. Chance, Richard DiMarchi, and Bruce H. Frank
  • 1997 - David J. Carini, John V. Duncia, Ronald S. Eydelloth, Michael L. Goldberg, and Pancras C. Wong
  • 1996 - Satish Duggal, Thomas Hinman, Brian Stutts, David F. Thompson, and Raja Wusirika