The 2019 Purdue Process Safety & Assurance Center (P2SAC) Spring Conferences will be held on May 7-9 in West Lafayette on the Purdue University campus. Conference attendees will have the opportunity to learn about important process safety research in several areas of interest during the three-day event. Nearly 100 attendees have registered, a new record, from a diverse spectrum of industry and academia.

Several Davidson School of Chemical Engineering graduate students were recently honored for their excellence in research, teaching, and service.

Dr. Fabio Ribeiro, the R. Norris and Eleanor Shreve Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University and Director of CISTAR, has been selected to receive the 2019 Giuseppe Parravano Memorial Award for Excellence in Catalysis Research. He will receive the award during the 40th annual Michigan Catalysis Society (MC-NACS) Spring Symposium to be held on May 7 at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.

Under the direction of ChE Professor Stephen Beaudoin, research at the Purdue Energetics Research Center (PERC) meets the national need to make, test, detect, deploy and defeat next-generation energetic materials. The Army's selection of Adranos Inc. as the winner of its xTechSearch competition highlights the attention three companies emerging from PERC are receiving for their work in the defense industry.

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering undergraduate students were recently awarded six Co-Op scholarships for 2018-2019, including five scholarships named for Purdue Chemical Engineering alumnus William Nelson (BSChE ’74, MSChE ’75) and his wife, Linda. The scholarships were presented on Wednesday, February 20 during the 2019 Professional Practice Days luncheon, in the Purdue Memorial Union.