Davidson School of Chemical Engineering undergraduate Natalie K. Zamiechowski will be recognized during the 2020 Purdue University commencement as a recipient of the Amelia Earhart Scholarship. The Amelia Earhart Scholarship is awarded to a junior or senior with a minimum 3.2 grade point average who demonstrates leadership, determination, ability and potential in academic and/or community activities. Natalie is a rising junior from Park Ridge, Illinois and plans to graduate in 2022.

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering faculty members will co-advise two Purdue College of Engineering 2020 Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellows. Dr. Osman Basaran, Burton and Kathryn Gedge Professor of Chemical Engineering, will co-advise Evgeniy Boyko, a PhD candidate at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Dr. Julie Liu, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, will co-advise Aishwarya Menon, who completed her PhD at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering graduating senior Justin Senyk finished in the top 3 poster presentations at the recent 2020 Spring Undergraduate Research Conference Symposium. Senyk's research was conducted with Professor Jeffrey Greeley.

The production of rare earth metals is a global $4 billion annual market that continues to grow as new uses are developed. Current acid based separation and purification of rare earth metals have a detrimental environmental impact. Now, new technology to extract and purify rare earth metals, developed and patented from the laboratory of Dr. Nien-Hwa Linda Wang, the Maxine Spencer Nichols Professor of Chemical Engineering, can separate rare earth metals without the environmental effects of conventional acid based methods with high yield and purity.

Two Davidson School of Chemical Engineering graduate students placed second for their poster presentation at the Heath and Disease: Science, Technology, Culture, and Policy Research Symposium.