W. Nicholas Delgass, Maxine Spencer Nichols Professor of Chemical Engineering, is the recipient of the inaugural North American Catalysis Society (NACS) Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Catalysis.

An article by Rakesh Agrawal, Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, published in Inside Indiana Business and in Purdue Today presents method to make refineries more efficient.

Professor Neal Houze has been selected as one of the 10 faculty members in the US to receive the 2009-10 ConocoPhillips Faculty Award.

Professor Venkat Venkatasubramanian's work on mathematics of statistical thermodynamics and information theory has led him to find a new application described in his paper "What is Fair Pay for Executives? An Information Theoretic Analysis of Wage Distributions," published in Entropy in November 2009. His work and this paper have been highlighted in a recent Journal & Courier article.