Chemical Engineering Faculty Member Honored by Alpha Chi Sigma

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Col. William Myers has been selected to receive the Alpha Chi Sigma John R. Kuebler Award for 2012. This is the highest award Alpha Chi Sigma bestows on its members and is presented for outstanding service to the fraternity and to the chemical sciences profession. The award is presented biennially at the fraternity conclave. This year’s conclave will be at the University of Iowa in July.

Alpha Chi Sigma is a national, professional chemistry fraternity founded in 1902. Prior Kuebler awardees include Nobel Laureate Glen Seaborg and J. Haworth Jonte (University of Arkansas PhD in chemistry, 1956).

Myers, a former assistant department head, retired in 2009, but still teaches some classes. He served as the Alpha Sigma Chapter Faculty Advisor from 1985-2000 and currently serves as Alumni Secretary ever since. From 2000-2002, he was the President, or Grand Master Alchemist of the fraternity.