Congratulations to the 2023-2024 undergraduate outstanding and senior awardees!

Karissa Raderstorf, Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, has been honored with the Purdue Mortar Board Rose Award.

LyoWave Inc., a high-tech startup, is commercializing innovative microwave heating technologies developed at Purdue University that improve upon traditional lyophilization — or the process of freeze-drying perishable products — by increasing speed, cost-effectiveness and product throughput. Alina Alexeenko, Professor of Chemical Engineering, is LyoWave's president and co-founder.

Vilas Pol, Professor of Chemical Engineering, was recently elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in the spring of 2024.

Enrique Iglesia, the Michel Boudart Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, has been awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2023 Faraday Lectureship Prize.