Davidson School of Chemical Engineering faculty members will co-advise two Purdue College of Engineering 2020 Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellows. Dr. Osman Basaran, Burton and Kathryn Gedge Professor of Chemical Engineering, will co-advise Evgeniy Boyko, a PhD candidate at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Dr. Julie Liu, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, will co-advise Aishwarya Menon, who completed her PhD at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering graduating senior Justin Senyk finished in the top 3 poster presentations at the recent 2020 Spring Undergraduate Research Conference Symposium. Senyk's research was conducted with Professor Jeffrey Greeley.

The production of rare earth metals is a global $4 billion annual market that continues to grow as new uses are developed. Current acid based separation and purification of rare earth metals have a detrimental environmental impact. Now, new technology to extract and purify rare earth metals, developed and patented from the laboratory of Dr. Nien-Hwa Linda Wang, the Maxine Spencer Nichols Professor of Chemical Engineering, can separate rare earth metals without the environmental effects of conventional acid based methods with high yield and purity.

Two Davidson School of Chemical Engineering graduate students placed second for their poster presentation at the Heath and Disease: Science, Technology, Culture, and Policy Research Symposium.

A Purdue Engineering and Purdue Foundry-affiliated startup is one of five Indiana businesses to receive funding from the second regional Elevate Ventures' Elevate Nexus Pitch Competitions Feb. 25-27. Elevate Ventures awarded a total of $680,000 in preseed and seed funding.