Jennifer Sinclair Curtis, an alumna of the Purdue School of Chemical Engineering, and recipient of the School's 2013 Outstanding Chemical Engineer Award, was recently named Dean of Engineering at the University of California - Davis.

R. Byron Pipes, the John Leighton Bray Distinguished Professor of Engineering, and a faculty member in the School of Chemical Engineering, will lead Purdue's Design, Modeling and Simulation Enabling Technology Center to be housed in the Indiana Manufacturing Institute.

Mahdi Abu-Omar, R. B. Wetherill Professor of Chemistry, and Professor of Chemical Engineering, is the founder and president of Spero Energy Inc., a company that received federal funding to develop its one-step, patent-pending technology that could improve the efficiency of alternative fuel production.

Professor Nicholas Peppas, of the University of Texas - Austin, presented the 2015 Kelly Lectures in April 2015.

Associate Professor Carl Laird was recently named a recipient of the 2015 AIChE Computing & Systems Technology Division (CAST) Outstanding Young Researcher Award.