H. N. Cheng (B.S., UCLA; PhD, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) just retired from USDA in New Orleans. Previously he worked for many years in industry at various research and management positions. Over the years, his research has included utilization of agro-based materials, green polymer chemistry, biocatalysis, pulp and paper chemistry, functional foods, polymer characterization, and NMR. His output has included 300 papers, 26 patent publications, and 23 edited books. He is a Fellow of the ACS (2009), a Fellow of the ACS Polymer Chemistry Division (2010), and a Fellow of the ACS Agricultural and Food Chemistry Division (2018), among other recognition and awards. He was 2021 President of the American Chemical Society (ACS).