Dr. Letian Dou, Assistant Professor in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, was recently elected as Area 8E Electronic and Photonic Materials Programming Chair for 2020-2021 by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).

Purdue Davidson School of Chemical Engineering has announced its schedule of Spring 2020 Graduate Seminars, featuring a slate of outstanding speakers well-known in their respective fields. All seminars are free and open to the public, and will be held in the Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering.

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering PhD student Jessica Torres received a Leslie Bottorff Fellowship for her research on next-generation surgical adhesives. Torres is advised by Purdue Chemical Engineering Professor Julie Liu.

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering PhD student Kaustabh Sarkar received a Leslie Bottorff Fellowship for his research in delivering localized chemoradiotherapy for head and neck cancers. Sarkar is advised by Purdue Chemical Engineering Professor You-Yeon Won.

Dr. Xiaoping Bao, Assistant Professor in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, is winner of the 2019 LG Chem Global Innovation Contest award for his research in human-induced pluripotent stem cells, or hiPSCs. Dr. Bao's research proposal, 'Biomanufacturing Universal Natural Killer Cells from hiPSCs for Immunotherapy', will explore the potential of natural killer (NK) cells, a type of innate immune cells, from hiPSCs for cancer treatment.