Dr. Xiaoping Bao, Assistant Professor in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, is winner of the 2019 LG Chem Global Innovation Contest award for his research in human-induced pluripotent stem cells, or hiPSCs. Dr. Bao's research proposal, 'Biomanufacturing Universal Natural Killer Cells from hiPSCs for Immunotherapy', will explore the potential of natural killer (NK) cells, a type of innate immune cells, from hiPSCs for cancer treatment.

Purdue University is developing a first-of-its-kind collection of engineering educational resources available online, for free or low-cost, to anyone around the world. Purdue Engineering Open Bytes™ will include high-quality textbooks, case studies, monographs and lecture notes written by College of Engineering faculty members. Jan-Anders Mansson, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Materials Engineering and Chemical Engineering, and co-director of the Indiana Next Generation Manufacturing Competitiveness Center (IN-MaC), has one of the first books planned, "Sports Industry Technology Innovation."

Five faculty from Davidson School of Chemical Engineering were honored for years of service to Purdue University during the Faculty Service Recognition Luncheon on December 10. ChE faculty honored were: Rakesh Agrawal (15 years); Elias I. Franses (40 years); Robert E. Hannemann (50 years); Enrico Martinez (10 years); Chongli Yuan (10 years). The event was hosted by the Office of the Provost.

Dr. Letian Dou, Assistant Professor in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, is part of the new Purdue University Center for Intelligent Infrastructure (CII), bringing together researchers to advance knowledge and education in the intelligent infrastructure space. The center unites the expertise of Purdue researchers in smart materials, construction, infrastructure resiliency and policy, sensing, system control, data optimization, communication, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Jaeyub Chung, a fifth year Chemical Engineering doctoral student, was recently awarded the 2019 Doh Wonsuk Memorial Award by the Korea Institute of Chemical Engineers (KIChE) for his stellar contributions to the field of chemical engineering.