Purdue Chemical Engineering junior Anna Wagner was selected to serve as Vice Chair of the national AIChE Executive Student Committee.

Vilas Pol, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, received funding from the Trask Innovation Fund.

Julia Myers Ross (BSChE ’90) has been named dean of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. She currently serves as dean of engineering and information technology at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), which is ranked No. 4 on U.S. News & World Report’s list of Most Innovative Schools.

Several graduate and undergraduate students received honors at the Nov. 13-18 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

On November 11, 2016, President Mitch Daniels announced that the School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue will become the Charles D. Davidson School of Chemical Engineering. This unique milestone in the history of the School was made possible through a $20 million gift from Charles “Chuck” Davidson (BSChE ‘72) and his wife, Nancy.