Davidson School of Chemical Engineering graduate students Paulina M. Babiak and Aaron Woeppel are recipients of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF).

In the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, we endeavor to foster diversity and inclusion, while strongly condemning racism and bigotry in all forms. Events around our nation have reminded us yet again of the work that remains for all of us in creating a country where racism and bigotry are eliminated and where justice is applied equally to all. We therefore reaffirm our continued commitment to create an environment in Chemical Engineering in which everyone is treated with civility and respect. Boilermakers must persist, now more than ever, to build a better world together.

Dr. Brett Savoie, the Charles Davidson Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, is Principal Investigator of a research group that will receive funding from the National Science Foundation to study prediction of electrolyte decomposition in batteries. The study, Chemical Network Based Understanding and Prediction of Electrolyte Decomposition in Batteries, will receive more than $400,000 over the next two years. The award is part of the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER).

Dr. Vilas Pol, Professor in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, is Principal Investigator of a team of Purdue University researchers as part of the Naval Enterprise Partnership Teaming with Universities for National Excellence (NEPTUNE), under the Office of Naval Research program. Co-Principal Investigator is Dr. Thomas Adams from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division, a visiting researcher in Purdue Nuclear Engineering and Director of the Alternative Energy Laboratory.

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering Professor Bryan Boudouris is part of a team of researchers from Purdue University that worked with biomedical, mechanical and chemical engineers, along with clinicians, to develop the novel technology. The team enabled commercial soft contact lenses to be a bioinstrumentation tool for unobtrusive monitoring of clinically important information associated with underlying ocular health conditions. Their work is published in Nature Communications. The Purdue Research Foundation Office of Technology Commercialization helped secure a patent for the technology, and it is available for licensing.