Xiaoping Bao, assistant professor from the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, has improved upon traditional methods to produce off-the-shelf human immune cells that show strong antitumor activity, according to a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Reports.

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering Professor Vilas Pol has been awarded $50,000 from the Trask Innovation Fund for the continued development of his novel research in developing solid-state, lithium-ion batteries.

Ethan Adams, a third-year Ph.D student in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, has received the Department of Defense (DOD) Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarship for his research on low-temperature batteries. This highly prestigious award will provide Ethan with full tuition, a stipend, summer internships, and a full-time position with the DOD Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) in Philadelphia where he also completed a summer internship in 2021.

Tianfan Jin, a graduate student working with ChE’s Brett Savoie, uses Purdue Research Computing’s new Bell GPU nodes with machine learning tools to predict and automatically interpret chemical reactions.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and the shift of global attention to human health, the amount of plastic waste being produced has increased tremendously. In order to combat this imminent plastic pandemic, a team of Purdue research scientists led by Professor Vilas Pol in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, undergraduate researcher Abhimanyu Raj Shekhar and collaborators came together to develop countermeasures against plastic waste production.