Joseph DiSimone: Walston Chubb Award for Innovation

摘要

Researcher, chemist, mentor,entrepreneur and inventor Joseph M. DiSimone of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) has been named the 2012 Sigma Xi Walston Chubb Award for Innovation recipient. Currently, DiSimone is the Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry at UNC and the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University. This past July, DiSimone was named the Director of the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, part of UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School, based on his extensive experience as both a dedicated researcher and an innovative entrepreneur.