Dr. Shelly Peyton, Associate Professor and Barry & Afsaneh Siadat Career Development Faculty Fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering at University of Massachusetts Amherst, will present the 2018 Mellichamp Lecture. Hosted by the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Dr. Peyton will present a lecture, Tissue Inspired Hydrogel Design, on Tuesday, October 16 at 3:00 pm in Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering room G140. The event is free and open to the public.

More than 230 million invasive surgeries are performed worldwide each year, and nearly all of those procedures create additional tissue damage from stitches and staples. Professor Julie Liu is leading a team of researchers at Purdue University hoping to significantly decrease that damage with a new surgical adhesive technology.

Purdue Chemical Engineering alumnus Timothy Bohrer (MSChE '73) will be inducted in the PMMI Packaging & Processing Hall of Fame at the PACK EXPO International in October 2018 at McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois. During his 45 years in packaging, Bohrer has been named inventor or co-inventor of 17 patents for microwave packaging technology, composite containers, barrier film, thermoforming, and other technologies.

Dr. Rajamani Gounder, Associate Professor in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, has been named in the "2018 Class of Influential Researchers" by Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, a publication of the American Chemical Society. The global team of editors and editorial advisory board members identified this class of influential, early-career (less than 10 years or so in their independent research career) researchers, on the basis of the quality and impact of their research.

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering's Dr. Vilas Pol is leading research in battery technology using sodium, which is a cheap and earth-abundant alternative to lithium-ion batteries. The researchers have been investigating sodium-ion batteries because they could store energy for large solar and wind power facilities at lower cost.