A Purdue University professor has received the 2025 IEEE PELS Energy Storage Innovation Award for groundbreaking research that pushes the temperature and performance boundaries of lithium-ion batteries.

Deborah L. Grubbe (BSChE ’77, HDR 2010), owner and president of Operations and Safety Solutions, Inc., has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the prestigious Ted C. Kennedy Award and Medal by the National Academy of Construction (NAC). The award, the Academy’s highest honor, will be presented to Grubbe at the NAC Annual Meeting on Oct. 30 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Zoltan K. Nagy, the Arvind Varma Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, has been elected as an External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), one of the highest scholarly honors bestowed by Hungary's premier scientific institution.

Zachary Beickman is a third-year PhD student at the Liu Research Group at the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, where he's working to innovate novel biomaterials that can advance regenerative medicine.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $304,436 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to LyoWave Inc. for a project that could increase the availability of lifesaving medicines and reduce pharmaceutical development and manufacturing costs.