Dr. Rajamani Gounder, the Larry and Virginia Faith Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, was recently awarded the Early Career Award in Catalysis by the American Chemical Society (ACS) Catalysis Science and Technology Division. This award recognizes and encourages accomplishments and innovation of unusual merit by an individual in the early stages of their career, emphasizing independence and creativity.

Two Davidson School of Chemical Engineering alumni have been named 2021 Distinguished Engineers by Purdue College of Engineering. Joseph S. Alford (BSChE '66) and Stephen R. Cornell (BSChE '79) will be honored at a virtual event on Thursday, February 25.

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering undergraduate students were recently awarded six Co-Op scholarships for 2021, including five scholarships named for Purdue Chemical Engineering alumnus William Nelson (BSChE '74, MSChE '75) and his wife, Linda.

Dr. Cornelius Masuku, Associate Professor of Engineering Practice in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, is part of a select group of early career chemical engineering researchers invited to present research for publication in the fourth AIChE Futures journal, a top generalist archived research journal of the chemical engineering profession. Invitations are based on nominations by chemical engineering department heads and chairs, the AIChE Journal editorial team, and Consulting Editorial Board.

A multi-institution team of researchers led by Dr. Letian Dou, the Charles Davidson Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, has discovered a unique mechanism that explains how halide ions diffuse through stacked two-dimensional (2D) halide perovskite heterostructures. Their discovery, published in Nature Nanotechnology, may help solve the perovskite instability issues and consequently speed up their commercialization for application in common electronic devices.