Lou Edwards Endowed Chair for Chemical Engineering

We are now in our final phase to fully fund the Lou Edwards Endowed Chair. We need $500,000 more to reach our goal to establish the first endowed faculty position in University of Idaho Department of Chemical Engineering.

Join Your Class In Support!

View the generous alumni who have donated since July 1, 2019 from your class decade, and join them in support of this endowed position.

Lou Edwards Fund Leaderboard

Decade	Total Given this Fiscal Year	ChE Alumni
1970s	$179,750	Ronald Baldus James Batdorf Keith Euhus Clayton Freeberg Wayne Hager Marjorie Hatter Donald James Duane Koch George Kurdy David McFarland Don Schaechtel Kirk Stedman J. Paul Warner Raymond Wong
1960s	$59,050	Wayne Eckert Robert Harrell Robert Keller James Okeson Rob Pabst Lyle Parks George Simmons Richard Smith Durward Stolp Steve Strecker William Thomson Gary Van Stone Patrick Wicks
1980s	$30,950	Candis Claiborn Kirk Daehling Bridgette Hendricks Terence McHugh Chris Niederer Mark Nordquist Barry O'Brien Gayle Schaeffer Pami Singh Janis Stevenson Eva Strand Julia Tripp
Other Supporters	$5,025	Chevron Corporation Clare Moore ConocoPhillips Company Lois Tretter Michael Gondek Randy Nebel Charitable Fund The Dow Chemical Company Foundation
2000s	$1700	Aashika Jain Sean Mollberg Jason Stedman David Thrasher
1950s	$1,600	Glenwood Robinson Bess Vance
1990s	$1,425	Eric Aston Jeremy Dillon Max Hueftle Kent Robarge Daniel Smith
1940s	$1,000	Arthur Humphrey Anonymous
2010s	$150	Kyle Koelsch Danielle Milligan

The University of Idaho College of Engineering is one of the leading engineering programs in the Northwest.

Part of that prestige lies in our excellent faculty, who attract highly-skilled students to our hands-on programs and research opportunities.

The Lou Edwards Endowed Chair in Chemical Engineering will continue Lou’s tradition of excellence in leadership, teaching and research, and enable U of I to attract and retain top faculty members.

An endowed chair is a distinguished faculty position funded through an endowment.

“An endowed chair builds the reputation of our program. It indicates a certain distinction in teaching and provides opportunities to pursue research with a high potential for return. ” ERIC ASTON, Chair, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering

Why give to an endowed chair?

Your gift provides resources beyond what the university alone can offer, including:

• A stable and permanent revenue source for excellent faculty
• Building our college’s reputation as a top-tier research university
• Hiring and retention of top faculty members
• Funding for undergraduate and graduate research positions working alongside faculty
• Connection between our college and national industry leaders

Earlier efforts to establish the Lou Edwards Endowed Chair in Chemical Engineering were led by Emeritus Professor William “Bill” Thompson led that effort, raising over $1.5M toward the $2M goal.

We are now in our final phase to fully fund the Lou Edwards Endowed Chair and are working toward reaching our goal of raising the final $500,000.

About Lou Edwards 1936-2016

Lou Edwards, 1936-2016, received several awards for his contributions to teaching and research and was a talented faculty member who made a difference in the lives of many U of I students.

Originally from Montana, Lou earned a bachelor’s degree at Rensselaer Engineering and a master’s at the University of Delaware. He first came to Idaho in 1961, and was one of the Department’s first Ph.D. students, receiving his doctorate in 1966. He received the Technical Association of Pulp and Paper Industry’s Pulp Manufacture Division Technical Award and Johan C.F. C. Richter Prize in 2014. During his career, he published more than 100 technical papers and served as a consultant to over 30 pulp and paper companies worldwide.