A Purdue University research team, including Davidson School of Chemical Engineering Professor John Morgan, has pioneered new methods for increasing production of volatile compounds important for plant defenses and for use in biofuels, pharmaceuticals and other products. While investigating how plants can more efficiently emit those compounds, the team, led by Department of Biochemistry Distinguished Professor Natalia Dudareva, also found an unanticipated factor playing a role in plant cellular functions.

Dr. Fabio Ribeiro, R. Norris and Eleanor Shreve Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of the NSF Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources (CISTAR), was featured in the recent Office of the Executive Vice President for Research and Partnerships Dimensions of Discovery for the 2020 Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award.

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering graduate student Dhushyanth Viswanath was selected as winner of the Investigator category of the Kroenke's Poster Awards at the Annual CTSI Meeting on Sept. 11, 2020. His research poster was on “Bilirubin-Coated Radio-Luminescent Particles for Radiation-Induced Photodynamic Therapy."

Purdue Chemical Engineering alumnus Dr. Antonios G. Mikos (MS 1985, PhD 1988) was recently elected to the prestigious Academia Europaea. Dr. Mikos was elected for his work in biomaterials and tissue engineering. Mikos is the Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering, of chemical and biomolecular engineering, of materials science and nanoengineering, and of chemistry, and director of the NIH Center for Engineering Complex Tissues, the Center for Excellence in Tissue Engineering and the J. W. Cox Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering at Rice University.

Purdue University Davidson School of Chemical Engineering will host two virtual information sessions for anyone interested in learning more about the PhD program. The identical sessions will begin at 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 28 and Thursday, October 29.