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.

Mary Mulligan, a member of the 2018 undergraduate class, has taken her Purdue chemical engineering degree in a unique direction - to the world's most diverse tropical rainforests! She is currently pursuing a double degree PhD in tropical forestry at the University of Goettingen in Germany and IPB University in Indonesia. In her research, she is designing a biodiversity monitoring program for a national park in Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Nien-Hwa “Linda” Wang, Dr. Norman and Dr. Jane Li Professor in Chemical Engineering, leads a team that developed innovative technologies to separate and purify rare earth and battery elements from a variety of sources including ores, postindustrial wastes and recycled magnets.