Faith A. Morrison

Michigan Technological University

Chemical Engineer

Fellow, Elected 2015

Faith Morrison is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Technological University. She earned a B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University in 1983 and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1988. Dr. Morrison joined the faculty of the Michigan Technological University as an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering in 1990. There, she has been a full Professor of Chemical Engineering since 2012 and the Associate Dean of the Graduate School since 2016.

Her research interests include both research and pedagogy in rheology and fluid mechanics. She has authored two books in her fields of study: Understanding Rheology, in 2001, and An Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, in 2013. Dr. Morrison has been an outstandingly active member of The Society of Rheology. Her formal service to The Society of Rheology began in the 1990’s where she served as the chair of the ad hoc Committee on Constitutional Reform then as chair of the Membership Committee from 1999 to 2003. In 2003 she took over as the editor of the Rheology Bulletin, which she drastically revitalized and revamped in format and introduced color printing. Dr. Morrison served as the Vice President of the Society of Rheology from 2009 to 2011 and as President from 2011 to 2013. In recent years she has been deeply involved in leadership and governance opportunities within the American Institute of Physics (AIP), of which SOR was a founding member in 1929. In 2015 she received the Distinguished Service Award of The Society of Rheology, which is given very infrequently and at the discretion of the Executive Committee, in recognition of her exceptional service to the Society.