Davidson School of Chemical Engineering Professor Vilas Pol has been selected to receive The American Ceramic Society's Richard M. Fulrath Award - American Academic. The award will be presented at the Honors and Awards Banquet at the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) 121st Annual Meeting on September 30, 2019 in Portland, Oregon.

Chemical Engineering Director of Industrial Education Dr. Gabriela Nagy was presented the 2019 Presidential Safety Award for her endless efforts to promote safety awareness and practices in Forney Hall and the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering. Dr. Nagy received the award during the Purdue University Annual Safety Chair Meeting on March 20.

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering faculty Dr. Vilas Pol and Dr. Letian Dou will co-advise two Purdue College of Engineering 2019 Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellows. Dr. Vilas Pol will co-advise Hamid R. Seyf, who received a PhD degree from George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Letian Dou will co-advise Ke Ma, who received her PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Dr. Klavs F. Jensen, the Warren K. Lewis Professor in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will speak on Monday, April 15 and Tuesday, April 16 in the 2019 Kelly Lecture Series, presented by the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering. Dr. Jensen's Monday lecture, titled “Automated Systems and Machine Learning for Chemical Synthesis,” will take place at 3:00 pm in Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering, Room 3059. Tuesday’s lecture, “Accelerating Development and Intensifying Chemical Processes,” will be held in Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering Room G140. Both lectures are free and open to the public.

Purdue University College of Engineering has established the Neil Armstrong Distinguished Visiting Fellows program, bringing together highly accomplished and recognized scholars and practitioners to collaborate on work with engineering faculty and students. Dr. Enrique Iglesia, University of California, Berkeley (right), will work with faculty and students involved with the Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources (CISTAR). He will be hosted by Fabio Ribeiro, the Norris and Eleanor Shreve Professor of Chemical Engineering and director of CISTAR.