The Chemstress Consultant Company Outstanding Professor of the Year Award
This award was established in 1990 by the Chemstress Consultant Company in honor of Julius Handelman, a man of respect, kindness, and integrity. The purpose of the award is to encourage faculty excellence within the College of Engineering. Chemstress Consultant Company has generously supported the College for a number of years. The firm initiated this award to enhance the ability of the College to attract exceptional faculty members to The University of Akron and reward professors for their teaching accomplishments. The recipient of this award shall be selected annually by a committee appointed by the dean of the College of Engineering.

The Professor Ronald K. Eby Award In Polymer Science
The Professor Ronald K. Eby Award in Polymer Science is presented annually to the student with the highest GPA in the first-year core courses in the Department of Polymer Science, unless that student receives the Morton Award. In that case, the Eby Award would go to the student with the second highest GPA. The faculty of the Department of Polymer Science makes selection of each year's Eby Award recipient. The initial award will be $1,000 and shall be revised in increments of $100 as the endowment grows. If the endowment grows sufficiently, more awards of equal value shall be presented.

The College, Elsevier Science, publisher of the journal Polymer, and a committee of friends and colleagues organized 20-20 Vision in Polymer Science-the Next Two Decades to honor Professor Ronald K. Eby on his 70th birthday and recognize his significant scientific contributions in broad areas of polymer science. Dr. Eby, the inaugural Robert C. Musson Professor of Polymer Science, is internationally known for his research on advanced materials. Author of 170 publications, Dr. Eby served six years as professor of materials science and engineering at The Johns Hopkins University before assuming his duties at The University of Akron. While at The University of Akron Dr. Eby further distinguished himself not only as the holder of the Musson Chair, but as an Ohio Eminent Scholar and especially as a mentor to developing polymer scientists.

He worked for 21 years at the National Bureau of Standards and for much of that time was Chief of the Polymers Division. He managed a program of 120 full-time, part-time, and guest workers, investigating the concepts and standards for the performance, processing, structure, and properties of polymeric materials. He has conducted research on the structure, morphology and properties of plastics, elastomers, silks, laminates, composites and advanced fibers using methods such as physical acoustics, molecular modeling, nondestructive evaluation, microscopy, X-ray scattering and thermal analysis.

Dr. Eby has received the prestigious Alexander Von Humboldt Senior Award that involves one year of research at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Science in Mainz, Germany. He also has received the Society of Plastics Engineers International Research Award. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the Acoustical Society of America, the Society of Plastics Engineers, and the North American Thermal Analysis Society.

He has held a wide variety of offices in technical organizations. They include: chair of the American Chemical Society's Division of Polymer Chemistry (1987); chair of the American Physical Society's Division of High Polymer Physics (1972-73); and chair of the American Society for Testing and Materials' Committee D-20 on Plastics (1978-80 and 1982-83). He also served as chair of the American Physical Society's selection committee for the High Polymer Physics Prize (1972); as a member of the Society's council and as chair of the selection committee for the Society of Plastics Engineers' Research Award (1981-89). He was a signer of the document creating the Pacific Polymer Federation and a co-author of the document that led to the establishment of KIST in Korea.

Eby served 23 years as the U.S. editor of Polymer for the Americans and serves on the editorial boards of Polymer Engineering and Science, the Journal for Advanced Materials, the Annual Review of Materials Science and A Physics Vade Mecum. He has served as associate editor of the Review of Scientific Instruments and Materials Science & Engineering. He was editor of Durability of Macromolecular Materials, coeditor of The Materials Science & Engineering of Rigid-Rod Polymers, coeditor of High Performance Polymers & Polymer Matrix Composites.

He has served as a consultant for numerous industries, government agencies, and other organizations. He also has received research funding from such diverse organizations as the Smithsonian Institution, the U.S. Air Force and Navy, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, IBM, the National Science Foundation, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, the National Roofing Contractors Association and the Electric Power Research Institute, and EPIC.

Dr. Eby holds a bachelor's degree in physics from Lafayette College and master's and doctoral degrees in physics from Brown University.

The Claibourne E. Griffin Research Fund
The proceeds for this fund are to be used at the discretion of the dean of the Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences to support the research activities of college faculty members on faculty-improvement leaves. Preference shall be given to individuals on full-year leaves.

The Dr. Louis A. Hill, Jr. Award
The Dr. Louis A. Hill, Jr. Award was established by the founders of Qua Tech to honor Dr. Hill for his outstanding professional accomplishments as dean of engineering at The University of Akron, and to support his encouragement in the founding of Qua Tech. The purpose of the award is to recognize outstanding achievement by a full-time faculty member in The University of Akron College of Engineering. Recipients are selected on the basis of their contributions to the engineering profession and the community through teaching, research, consulting, invention, service to the profession, and service to the community. Recipients are selected by a committee within the college composed of past award recipients and departmental representatives.

The Dr. Karen M. Mudry Achievement Awards for the Biomedical Engineering Talk and Poster Competitions
Richard D. Avil, Jr., and Dr. Karen M. Mudry established an endowment for these awards in 1990. Richard Avil elected to name these awards in honor of his wife, Dr. Mudry, first head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, because the talk and poster competitions were initiated during her tenure as department head. The income from this endowment shall be used to fund the awards for the biomedical engineering students with the best talks and posters in the annual departmental competition.


The Dean William M. Petry Outstanding Teaching Award
The Dean William M. Petry Outstanding Teaching Award was established in honor of William Petry for his outstanding leadership and vision as the founding dean of the Community and Technical College. Mr. Petry served as Dean from 1964 until 1974 and guided the growth of a faculty dedicated to the highest quality of teaching. The purpose of this award is to encourage and recognize teaching excellence within the College. The recipient of the Award shall be selected annually by a committee within the College.


The John R. Quine Award
The John R. Quine Award, established by Valley Savings & Loan Company, is presented annually to the adjunct professor of law who has most successfully combined a practical approach to the teaching of law with a scholarly approach to the private practice of Law. Current gifts are received annually from family and friends.