Dr. Letian Dou, the Charles Davidson Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been selected for the 2022 Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) Rising Star in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology award.

Xiaoping Bao, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been selected for the 2023 BMES-CMBE Rising Star Junior Faculty Award as part of the 2023 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) - Cell and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Conference taking place January 2-6, 2023 in Indian Wells, California.

David S. Corti, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Elias Franses, Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering, and graduate student, An-Hsuan (Andy) Hsieh have unexpectedly discovered liquid-like dispersions with iridescent colors which were previously only observed in solid systems, such as gemstones, or in feathers and butterfly wings.

The Owens Corning Early Career Award recognizes outstanding independent contributions to the scientific, technological, educational or service areas of materials science and engineering.

Purdue ChE’s Prof. Jeffrey Greeley, together with students Pushkar Ghanekar and Siddharth Deshpande, have proposed a new computational method to accelerate development of heterogeneous catalysts for energy and environmental applications.