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.

The drive to know more after publishing a 2022 paper has led Letian Dou to create methods to produce polymers that are suitable for closed-loop recycling and scalable to industry levels.

With electric vehicle (EV) sales projected to reach 38 million annually by 2030, the global race to decarbonize transportation has intensified. But behind the promise of cleaner mobility lies a complex challenge: how to build sustainable batteries without exacerbating environmental degradation or human rights concerns.