Llewellyn J. Evans Distinguished Scientific, Engineering and Management Award 1994. Educational Award Vanderbilt University Alumni League 1996. He was awarded Asian American Engineer of the Year Distinguished Science and Technology Award, CIE-USA, National Engineers Foundation 2007. He addressed the United Nations' General Assembly in 1990 as part of the "Only One Earth Day". Wang is married to Beverly Feng () with two sons, Kenneth Wang and Eric Wang. Freesia  Freesia is a genus of herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1866 by Christian Friedrich Ecklon (1886) and named after the German botanist and medical practitioner, Friedrich Freese (1795-1876). It is native to the eastern side of southern Africa, from Kenya south to South Africa, most species being found in Cape Provinces. Species of the former genus Anomatheca are now included in "Freesia". The plants commonly known as "freesias", with fragrant funnel-shaped flowers, are cultivated hybrids of a number of "Freesia" species. Some other species are also grown as ornamental plants. They are herbaceous plants which grow from a conical corm diameter, which sends up a tuft of narrow leaves long, and a sparsely branched stem tall bearing a few leaves and a loose one-sided spike of flowers with six tepals. Many species have fragrant narrowly funnel-shaped flowers, although those formerly placed in the genus "Anomatheca", such as "F. laxa", have flat flowers. Freesias are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the large yellow underwing. The genus was named in honor of Friedrich Heinrich Theodor Freese (1795–1876), a German physician. Species of the former genus "Anomatheca" are now included in "Freesia":  The plants usually called "freesias" are derived from crosses made in the 19th century between "F. refracta" and "F. leichtlinii". Numerous cultivars have been bred from these species and the pink- and yellow-flowered forms of "F. corymbosa". Modern tetraploid cultivars have flowers ranging from white to yellow, pink, red and blue-mauve. They are mostly cultivated professionally in the Netherlands by about 80 growers. Freesias can be readily increased from seed.