Dr. Linda Wang, the Maxine Spencer Nichols Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, has developed new efficient and inexpensive technologies that could allow the extraction of rare earth elements, critical components of many electronics and green products, from waste coal ash.

LoDos Theranostics LLC, a Purdue-affiliated life sciences startup, received the first-place prize at the New Venture Competition hosted by BioCrossroads. Davidson School of Chemical Engineering Professor You-Yeon Won and Rachel Kim, an MBA graduate from MIT Sloan, co-founded LoDos Theranostics to develop radio luminescence therapy. This technology is a nanoparticle ultraviolet radiation technique that enhances the destruction of deep tissue cancerous tumors.

Dr. Sangtae Kim, Jay and Cynthia Ihlenfeld Head of Chemical Engineering and Distinguished Professor, and Dr. Jan-Anders Mansson, Distinguished Professor of Materials and Chemical Engineering, were honored at the annual Distinguished and Named Professorship Ceremony on October 6 in Stewart Center's Fowler Hall.

Surya Mallapragada (PhD'97) and Antonios Mikos (MS'86, PhD'88) have been elected as Fellows in the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE). This honor is presented in recognition of distinguished contributions to and leadership in the field of medical and biological engineering in an international level. Formal induction will take place at the 2018 World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering in Prague, Czech Republic.

The National Science Foundation has chosen Purdue University to lead an engineering research center, which will develop new technologies to produce fuels from U.S. shale-gas deposits that could inject $20 billion annually into the economy.