The Johansen Crosby Endowment supports development of educational initiatives, such as the Johansen Crosby Lectureship and the Johansen Crosby Professorship. The Johansen Crosby endowment honors the parents of Professor Edwin Johansen Crosby. Professor Crosby received a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from Michigan State University in 1950 and continued his studies at the University of Wisconsin, completing the Ph.D. in 1955. His father, Edwin Rallard Crosby, owned an electric supply company in Flint, Michigan, and his mother, Thora Anne Johansen Crosby, was an ardent horticulturist and volunteer for Michigan State University Cooperative Extension Service in Flint.
Professor Crosby spent his entire career as an inspiring educator and researcher in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison until his untimely death on December 25, 1991. Professor Crosby's early interest in atomization and spray-drying phenomena resulted in the first fundamental study of controlled collisions between pairs of drops using high speed cinematography. His pioneering book, Experiments in Transport Phenomena, was published by John Wiley and Sons in 1961.
Johansen Crosby Lecturers
- 2023, Tamara Floyd Smith, West Virginia Institute of Technology
- 2023, Matthew W. Liberatore, University of Toledo
- 2022, David Allen, University of Texas, Austin
- 2021, Suzanne Kresta, University of Saskatchewan
- 2019, Babatunde Ogunnaike, University of Delaware
- 2018, Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University
- 2017, Michael Prince, Bucknell University
- 2016 Daniel Klingenberg, University of Wisconsin
- 2015 Mario Eden, Auburn University
- 2014 Phillip Wankat, Purdue University
- 2013 John Falconer, University of Colorado
- 2012 Robert C. Armstrong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2012 Jefferson W. Tester, Cornell University
- 2010 F. Joseph Schork, University of Maryland
- 2009 Robert Davis, University of Virginia
- 2008 David A. Kofke, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
- 2007 Regina Murphy, University of Wisconsin
- 2006 Matthew Neurock, University of Virginia
- 2005 Stuart L. Cooper, The Ohio State University
- 2004 Arvind Varma, Purdue University
- 2003 Edward L. Cussler, University of Minnesota
- 2002 David F. Ollis, North Carolina State University
- 2001 Richard M. Felder, North Carolina State University
- 1999 H. Scott Fogler, The Univeristy of Michigan
- 1999 George G. Chase, The University of Akron
Johansen Crosby Visiting Professors
- 2001 G.D. Yadav, University Division of Chemical Technology, University of Mumbai, India.
- 1999 George G. Chase, The University of Akron
Johansen Crosby Endowed Chair
- Richard Lunt