The School of Chemical Engineering will organize the 9th Women in Chemical Engineering Symposium on April 1, 2017 at Purdue, in Forney Hall. This event is sponsored by Shell and Purdue ChE Pipeline Center.

Purdue Chemical Engineering junior Anna Wagner was selected to serve as Vice Chair of the national AIChE Executive Student Committee.

Vilas Pol, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, received funding from the Trask Innovation Fund.

Julia Myers Ross (BSChE ’90) has been named dean of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. She currently serves as dean of engineering and information technology at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), which is ranked No. 4 on U.S. News & World Report’s list of Most Innovative Schools.