Hanieh Niroomand, a graduate student in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was acknowledged in the BioNanotechnology Graduate Student Award Session of the 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting, held November 13-18 in San Francisco. She also was the first and only PhD candidate to successfully and independently chair the AIChE Sustainability Engineering Forum Division, Sustainable Energy from Renewable Resources Session, for two years (2015 and 2016).