Davidson School of Chemical Engineering faculty Dr. Vilas Pol and Dr. Letian Dou will co-advise two Purdue College of Engineering 2019 Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellows. Dr. Vilas Pol will co-advise Hamid R. Seyf, who received a PhD degree from George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Letian Dou will co-advise Ke Ma, who received her PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Dr. Klavs F. Jensen, the Warren K. Lewis Professor in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will speak on Monday, April 15 and Tuesday, April 16 in the 2019 Kelly Lecture Series, presented by the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering. Dr. Jensen's Monday lecture, titled “Automated Systems and Machine Learning for Chemical Synthesis,” will take place at 3:00 pm in Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering, Room 3059. Tuesday’s lecture, “Accelerating Development and Intensifying Chemical Processes,” will be held in Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering Room G140. Both lectures are free and open to the public.

Purdue University College of Engineering has established the Neil Armstrong Distinguished Visiting Fellows program, bringing together highly accomplished and recognized scholars and practitioners to collaborate on work with engineering faculty and students. Dr. Enrique Iglesia, University of California, Berkeley (right), will work with faculty and students involved with the Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources (CISTAR). He will be hosted by Fabio Ribeiro, the Norris and Eleanor Shreve Professor of Chemical Engineering and director of CISTAR.

Dr. You-Yeon Won, Professor in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, has been highlighted in the 2018 Purdue University Center for Cancer Research Annual Report for major breakthroughs in nanomedicine research.

The World Health Organization reports that more than 2.5 million people each year die from health complications caused by indoor air pollution. Improving indoor air quality requires better monitoring technology, and a team of Purdue researchers including Dr. Bryan Boudouris, the Robert and Sally Weist Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, is developing novel resonant sensors that can detect volatile organic compounds polluting indoor environments at dangerous levels. The team's research transitions these sensors from laboratory environments to field-viable products with high reliability and cost-efficiency.