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.

Doraiswami Ramkrishna, the Harry Creighton Peffer Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, is the 2021 recipient of the William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature.