Graduate Student Kathryn Smith received the Fran Allen PhD Fellowship award from IBM for her "outstanding technical accomplishments and commitment to mentoring and community-building.
Gerald Skidmore, (BSChE 1954), and his wife, Sarah, have given a $750,000 gift to the School of Chemical Engineering to be used for a named professorship. Through Purdue's Faculty Fund for Excellence, the gift will be matched dollar for dollar, bringing the total for the professorship to $1.5 million.