Nominated to TAPPI Research Management Committee (2009)
Nominated to National Commission on Energy Policy (2008)
Served on the Committee on Technologies to Deter Currency Counterfeiting, Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies (2005-06)
Invited faculty to Universidade da Beira Interior, Departamenta
de Ciencia E Technologia do Papel and Departmento de Quimica
sponsored by Lusoa-Americana Fundacao (2003). Morning walk to UBI class
Invited speaker to International Lignin Institute 6th Forum,
Wageningen, The Netherlands (2003).
Invited guest professor for advanced
graduate Fiber Line course at Department of Forest Products
and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers
University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden (2001).
Outside expert for European Commission
Research Directorate-General Invitation to the evaluation
of proposals to "Quality of
Life and Management of Living Resources" RTD programme (2001).
Best Poster at International Pulp Bleaching Conference, Halifax
(2000).
Cited in Who’s Who in Plastics
and Polymers (2000).
1999 IPST President’s Award
for Education.
1999 Teacher of the Year, selected by IPST graduate students.
Cited in Marquis Who’s Who
in Science and Engineering (1999-2002).
Invited by Olle Alsholm, President of Skogsindustrins Tekniska
Forskningsinstitut (STFI) for sabbatical research visit in the
STFI Pulping and Bleaching Chemistry Group (1998).
Research Associate Fellowship, National Research Council of Canada
(1987-89).
National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada,
Postdoctoral Fellowship (1985-87).
National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada,
Graduate Fellowship (1980-84).
Own Pedagogical Prizes Awarded
1999 IPST President’s Award
for Education
1999 Teacher of the Year, selected by IPST graduate students
Student Awards Achieved under Ragauskas’ Supervision
