Potassium batteries research by Dr. Vilas Pol, Associate Professor in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, is featured in the recent Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) publication, Spectrum. IEEE is a global community where members collaborate on world-changing technologies to innovate for a better tomorrow. Dr. Pol leads ViPER, the Vilas Pol Energy Research Group at Purdue University, an experimental group dedicated to fulfilling the knowledge gap required to advance energy storage technologies.

Purdue University's Dr. Sangtae Kim has been named to a newly formed National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee charged with outlining an ambitious vision for chemical engineering research, innovation, and education that will guide the profession for the next 30 years.

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering undergraduate student Natalie Kadlubowski will receive the Astronaut Scholarship during an Honors College event on February 27. Kadlubowski is a double major in Chemical Engineering and the Department of Chemistry, and is a student in the Purdue Honors College, the College of Engineering and the College of Science. The award will be presented by Tracy Cernan, in memory of her father, NASA astronaut and Purdue alumnus Gene Cernan.

Dr. Chongli Yuan, a Davidson School of Chemical Engineering professor, is leader of a Purdue University multidisciplinary team studying the possibility of building synthetic neuron cells to treat Parkinson's disease. Yuan and her research group received part of a $4 million award from the National Science Foundation's 10 Big Ideas Challenge. The research is part of a four-year project shared among university researchers at Michigan, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Rochester Institute of Technology, Baylor and the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Dr. Letian Dou, Assistant Professor in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, was recently elected as Area 8E Electronic and Photonic Materials Programming Chair for 2020-2021 by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).