American Resources Corp. has acquired exclusive rights to critical rare-earth element separation and purification technologies from Hasler Ventures LLC and Purdue University, officials announced on February 2. The environmentally safer method uses ligand-assisted chromatography for separation and purification of rare-earth and other critical elements from coal, coal byproducts, recycled permanent magnets and lithium ion batteries. The technology was developed in the laboratory of Dr. Linda Wang, Purdue's Maxine Spencer Nichols Professor of Chemical Engineering.

Purdue College of Engineering has announced the Dean's List and Semester Honors, which recognize students that have achieved high scholastic standing cumulatively and/or for the semester.

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering graduate student Swapnil Deshmukh recently won second place in the 2020 AIChE Graduate Student Award Competition in the Inorganic Chemistry Area (08D) for his research in "Synthesis of Metal Chalcogenide Nanoparticles and Micro-assemblies Using Facile Amine-Thiol Solvent Chemistry for Applications in the Field of Semiconducting Materials."

Congratulations to seven Davidson School of Chemical Engineering faculty for their outstanding dedication to teaching Boilermaker Engineers! David Corti, Letian Dou, Rajamani Gounder, Ray Mentzer, Jeffrey Miller, Brett Savoie, and Nien-Hwa Linda Wang were among the faculty, lecturers and staff recently recognized by the College of Engineering.

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering graduate student Caralyn Stevenson has been selected by Sandia National Laboratories for a research fellowship to support a project in the Materials Science. Stevenson, a fourth-year graduate student studying with advisor Dr. Stephen Beaudoin, was chosen for the Sandia Academic Alliance Initiative for Research & Career Opportunities for Women in Microsystems, Nanotechnology & Materials program, which supports Sandia Labs projects.