Phillip Wankat, the Clifton L. Lovell Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, received the 2010 ASEE Joseph J. Martin Award, given for the best paper in the ChE Division at the previous ASEE meeting.

Duncan Mellichamp, PhD ‘64, Receives the CACHE Award of the ChE Division, ASEE, 2010 for outstanding contributions to Computing in Chemical Engineering.

The Industrial & Engineering Chemistry (IEC) Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has named Arvind Varma, R. Games Slayter Distinguished Professor and Head, School of Chemical Engineering, as a Fellow of the Division.

A new process for storing and generating hydrogen to run fuel cells in cars has been invented by chemical engineers at Purdue University. The process, given the name hydrothermolysis, uses a powdered chemical called ammonia borane, which has one of the highest hydrogen contents of all solid materials.

Terry Papoutsakis, (MS 1977, PhD 1980), the Eugene DuPont Chair in the Chemical Engineering department and the Delaware Biotechnology Institute at the University of Delaware, is the recipient of the 6th International Metabolic Engineering Award.