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MARY
REZAC (REE-ZACK)
Professor of chemical engineering
Mary
Rezac, professor of chemical engineering,
joined the faculty at K-State in 2002 as an associate professor
in chemical engineering. Prior to this, she had been an associate
professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at the Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Her areas of expertise include
polymer science and membrane separation processes and their applications
to biological systems and environmental control.
Rezac served as head of the department of chemical engineering from mid-2004 to mid-2005, the first female department head in the College of Engineering.
Rezac earned her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from K-State in 1987, and completed both a master's and doctorate in that discipline from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992 and 1993, respectively. She has more than 50 publications to her credit and is a joint inventor on two patents.
She has directed research projects funded by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Energy, American Chemical Society, Environmental Protection Agency and others. During her academic tenure she has guided the research of more than 40 undergraduate and graduate students.
Rezac can be reached by phone at 785-532-4317, or by e-mail at rezac@k-state.edu.