Hye Kyung Timken to receive College of Liberal Arts & Sciences alumni award

An alumna from the Department of Chemistry is one of 10 alumni from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences to be named a recipient of the college’s 2020 annual alumni awards. Hye Kyung Timken (PhD, '87) will receive an LAS Alumni Achievement Award. 

Timken is a team leader at Chevron, where her position as a Chevron Fellow reflects her ability to pioneer new development—she’s been issued 106 patents so far. Under Timken's leadership. Chevron's ISOALKY technology is poised to make a major impact on the environmental friendliness of oil refineries. 

Timken and the other winners will be honored during LAS Impact 2020, a weeklong celebration of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences starting on Oct. 26.