Professor Rakesh Agrawal, the Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, will take part in a panel discussion considering, "What IF the world ran on 100 percent renewable energy?" The February 6, 2019 event starts at 6:00 p.m. in the Purdue University Stewart Center Fowler Hall with a lecture by Dr. Jorge Haddock, President of the University of Puerto Rico and Purdue Engineering alumni.

Spirrow Therapeutics, co-founded by Davidson School of Chemical Engineering Professor You-Yeon Won, PhD graduate Dr. Kyle Kim, and undergraduate alumnus Davis Arick, will receive $20,000 from the Elevate Purdue Foundry Fund for research to develop a novel treatment for a life-threatening lung condition known as acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS.

Officials from Purdue University cut the ribbon Wednesday (Jan. 30) on the Manufacturing Design Laboratory, a research space dedicated to the technology-driven future of manufacturing in Indiana and across the globe. Dr. Jan-Anders Mansson, Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Engineering, developed the new Laboratory in Purdue's CMSC.

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering Professor John Morgan is part of a Purdue University research team that has described a complete second pathway used by plants to produce phenylalanine, a compound important for all living organisms. Their findings have been reported in the journal Nature Communications.

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering Professor Vilas Pol has been awarded $50,000 from the Trask Innovation Fund for continued development of his novel research in sustainable, low cost sodium-ion batteries. Dr. Pol is leading a research team in the discovery of Sodium Powder Technology for Sustainable, Low Cost Sodium-ion Batteries.