The mission of the Virginia Tech Department of Chemical Engineering is to educate students to become outstanding chemical engineers who possess all of the skills necessary to excel in an advanced, global society; to conduct innovative and beneficial research while training students to be the researchers of the future; and to provide service and expertise to the chemical engineering profession and society.
Lisa, Anna and Mike Kender on vacation in Piran, Slovenia.
The Department is extremely pleased to announce
the establishment of the Mike and Lisa Kender
Graduate Fellowship. Mike, a 1983 graduate of our
Department, is currently employed as a Managing
Director and heads the Loan Strategy and Analysis
group within Citigroup's loan sales and trading
business. He is also chairman of our
Department's External Advisory Board. In response
to our need for funds to support graduate
students for our rapidly growing faculty size,
especially for new faculty who have not yet
established their own research program, Mike and
his wife, Lisa, donated $100,000 to establish a
graduate fellowship. The proceeds from this fund
will be put to immediate use in the Fall to help
support our incoming graduate student class.
