Professor Rakesh Agrawal and Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Emre Gençer detailed their new "hydricity" concept in a paper that appeared in an online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Hydricity aims to create a sustainable economy by generating electricity with solar energy and producing and storing hydrogen from superheated water for round the clock power production.

Nancy Ho, founder and president of Green Tech America Inc. and a research professor emerita in the School of Chemical Engineering, will receive the National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Barack Obama in 2016.

Karissa Raderstorf, Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Sandra Hendryx, Secretary in the Undergraduate Office, were honored with customer service awards from the College of Engineering.

The AIChE Pharmaceutical Discovery, Development and Manufacturing Forum awarded its annual Outstanding Contribution to QbD for Drug Product honor to Professor James Litster.

Purdue Chemical Engineering undergraduate Oluwatoni “Toni” Adetayo received a 2015-16 AIChE Minority Scholarship