The Davidson School of Chemical Engineering is proud to announce that three of its faculty members have been appointed to leadership positions within the Institute for Energy Innovation (IEI) in the College of Engineering.

Vilas Pol, professor of chemical engineering at Purdue University's Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, has been selected for induction into the Inaugural Purdue Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Marcus Condarcure, a graduate student at Purdue University's Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, has been selected as a recipient of the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

The Purdue Process Safety and Assurance Center held its 24th Spring Conference May 5–7, drawing 90 attendees and leaders from 34 companies across the chemical, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, and manufacturing industries to Purdue's West Lafayette campus for three days of research, collaboration and dialogue on the front lines of process safety.

Xiaoping Bao, the William K. Luckow Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University’s Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, has been named a 2026 Showalter Faculty Scholar.