Davidson School of Chemical Engineering undergraduate student Natalie Kadlubowski will receive the Astronaut Scholarship during an Honors College event on February 27. Kadlubowski is a double major in Chemical Engineering and the Department of Chemistry, and is a student in the Purdue Honors College, the College of Engineering and the College of Science. The award will be presented by Tracy Cernan, in memory of her father, NASA astronaut and Purdue alumnus Gene Cernan.

Dr. Chongli Yuan, a Davidson School of Chemical Engineering professor, is leader of a Purdue University multidisciplinary team studying the possibility of building synthetic neuron cells to treat Parkinson's disease. Yuan and her research group received part of a $4 million award from the National Science Foundation's 10 Big Ideas Challenge. The research is part of a four-year project shared among university researchers at Michigan, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Rochester Institute of Technology, Baylor and the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Dr. Letian Dou, Assistant Professor in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, was recently elected as Area 8E Electronic and Photonic Materials Programming Chair for 2020-2021 by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).

Purdue Davidson School of Chemical Engineering has announced its schedule of Spring 2020 Graduate Seminars, featuring a slate of outstanding speakers well-known in their respective fields. All seminars are free and open to the public, and will be held in the Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering.

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering PhD student Jessica Torres received a Leslie Bottorff Fellowship for her research on next-generation surgical adhesives. Torres is advised by Purdue Chemical Engineering Professor Julie Liu.