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