Dr. Brett Savoie, Assistant Professor in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, is one of only eight recipients of the inaugural Dreyfus Program for Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences & Engineering Award. Dr. Savoie was selected to receive support for his proposal, Transfer Learning for Deep Generative Chemical Models.

LyoHUB, a university-industry center that is part of the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, is offering a new online course and other resources created to help researchers who would benefit from LyoHUB's facilities and knowledge, including research efforts related to COVID-19. The free course supports the goal of LyoHUB to improve the efficiency, science, and technology of freeze-drying in pharmaceuticals and other areas.

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering graduate student Swapnil Dattatray Deshmukh recently won the Best Student Presentation Award at the IEEE 2020 Photovoltaics Specialists Conference (PVSC) in the Area 2: Chalcogenide Thin Film Solar Cells Division. His presentation, Investigating the Potential of Amine-Thiol Solvent System for High-Efficiency CuInSe₂ Devices, was given online due to travel restrictions from the current COVID-19 pandemic.

Purdue University and United Kingdom-based Cranfield University are offering a dual master's degree in defense engineering and technology with a specialization in expeditionary warfare, or the deployment of a country's military forces to fight abroad. The program was fully approved in February by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education. Davidson School of Chemical Engineering Professor Steve Beaudoin is academic director of the dual Master of Science program and director of the Purdue Energetics Research Center.

Dr. Vilas Pol, Associate Professor in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, is leading research in the Purdue ViPER (Vilas Pol Energy Research) lab that focuses on using sodium-ion batteries as an environmentally friendly energy source, taking advantage of sodium's low cost and natural abundance. The use of sodium-ion batteries as an electrochemical storage device stands out for its cost advantage over lithium due to the widespread geographical distribution of sodium in the Earth’s crust and seawater.