Dec. 2025: Congratulations to Sopuru Ezenwa and Andrew Norfleet for their paper investigating the deactivation mechanism during low-temperature toluene methylation on MFI zeolites being accepted in Journal of Catalysis!

Dec. 2025: Congratulations to Bereket Bekele for his paper on the kinetic consequences of extraframework Al species occluded in zeolitic voids on acid-catalyzed rates of alkane cracking and dehydrogenation being accepted in ACS Catalysis!

Dec. 2025: Welcome to Matthew Albert as a new first year graduate student in our group! Matt received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of Maine.

Dec. 2025: Welcome to Orlando Carrillo-Ceja as a new first year graduate student in our group! Orlando received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of Nevada-Reno.

Dec. 2025: Welcome to Ainslee Fogleman as a new first year graduate student in our group! Ainslee received her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of Utah.

Dec. 2025: Welcome to Garrett Gregory as a new first year graduate student in our group! Garrett received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the Johns Hopkins University.

Dec. 2025: Welcome to Joseph (Mani) Harrah as a new first year graduate student in our group! Mani received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from West Virginia University.

Dec. 2025: Welcome to Chase McGee as a new first year graduate student in our group! Chase received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of Connecticut.

Dec. 2025: Welcome to Clayton Penttila as a new first year graduate student in our group! Clay received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Texas Tech University.

Nov. 2025: Congratulations to Bryan Cruz Delgado and our UC-Santa Barbara (Chmelka group) and other collaborators for their paper investigating the atomic-scale origins of hydrothermal stability in Cu-CHA zeolites being accepted in Journal of the American Chemical Society!

Nov. 2025: Congratulations to Diamarys Salome Rivera  for receiving the CISTAR Bill Murray Fellowship!

Nov. 2025: Congratulations to Brandon Bolton, Asanka Wijerathne and our collaborators (Paolucci and Li groups) for their paper on palladium sintering behavior on alumina supports  being accepted in Journal of Physical Chemistry C!

Oct. 2025: Congratulations to Lauren Kilburn and Ángel Santiago-Colón and our collaborators (Schneider group) for their paper on studying how Cu site density influences partial and over-oxidation reactions in stoichiometric methane oxidation cycles on Cu-zeolites  being accepted in Journal of Catalysis!

Oct. 2025: Raj Gounder receives the Philip C. Wankat Award for Graduate Teaching in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University.

Oct. 2025: Congratulations to Andrew Norfleet and Sopuru Ezenwa for their paper on how pentaerythritol structure-directing agents bias Al siting toward MFI channel environments and its consequences for toluene methylation catalysts being accepted in Journal of Catalysis!

Sep. 2025: Congratulations to Ángel Santiago-Colón and our collaborators (Hibbitts and Datye groups) for their paper on the non-oxidative conversion of methane in dehydroaromatization routes catalyzed by structurally stable and regenerable Mo-CHA zeolites being accepted in ACS Catalysis!

Sep. 2025: Welcome to Emerson Waltz as a new undergraduate researcher in our group!

Sep. 2025: Congratulations to PhD alumna Elizabeth Bickel Rogers for accepting a position to join the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering faculty at the University of Illinois as an assistant professor in the fall of 2025! We wish her all the best as she starts her independent scientific career!

Aug. 2025: Congratulations to Lauren Kilburn for receiving an AIChE CRE Division Travel Award (named in honor of Professor Bob Davis) to attend the 2025 Annual Meeting in Boston, MA!

Aug. 2025: Congratulations to Ángel Santiago-Colón for receiving the third place oral presentation award at the Purdue GSO symposium!

Aug. 2025: Congratulations to Diamarys Salome Rivera for receiving the fourth place poster presentation award at the Purdue GSO symposium!

Aug. 2025: Welcome to Anna Chambers as a new undergraduate researcher in our group!

Aug. 2025: Welcome to Gabriel Machado Gomes as a new undergraduate researcher in our group!

Jul. 2025: Raj Gounder receives the Young Researcher Award from the International Zeolite Association for his achievements in the atomic-scale control of structures and functions of zeolite catalysts. Our research group is deeply grateful this recognition from the international zeolite research community.

Jul. 2025: Welcome to Alexander Minne as a new postdoctoral researcher in our group, co-advised with Enrique Iglesia! Alex graduated with a PhD from Alabama under the direction of Prof. James Harris.

Jul. 2025: Congratulations to Bryan Cruz Delgado and our Notre Dame collaborators (Schneider group) for their paper investigating the mechanisms of N2O formation on acid sites in zeolites being accepted in Energy & Fuels!

Jul. 2025: Welcome to Edgard Lebrón-Rodríguez as a new postdoctoral researcher in our group! Edgard graduated with a PhD from Wisconsin under the direction of Prof. Ive Hermans.

Jun. 2025: Raj Gounder is selected to serve on the International Advisory Board of the International Conference on Environmental Catalysis.

May 2025: Welcome to David Ball as a new undergraduate researcher in the group, participating in the CISTAR REU and SURF programs at Purdue this summer!

May 2025: Welcome to Maxwell Bartlett as a new undergraduate researcher in the group, participating in the CISTAR REU and SURF programs at Purdue this summer!

Jul. 2025: Welcome to Ian Smith as a middle school teacher in the group, participating in the CISTAR RET program at Purdue this summer!

Jul. 2025: Welcome to Xinqin Kang as a middle school teacher in the group, participating in the CISTAR RET program at Purdue this summer!

May 2025: Congratulations to Andrew Mikes and Lauren Kilburn and our Notre Dame collaborators (Schneider group) for their paper investigating the active sites in Cu-CHA zeolites for continuous partial methane oxidation being accepted in ACS Catalysis!

May 2025: Congratulations to Jaatani Abdi on receiving the Purdue ChE Outstanding Senior Research Award!

Apr. 2025: Congratulations to Jaatani Abdi on receiving an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

Apr. 2025: Congratulations to Lauren Kilburn and Diamarys Salome Rivera on their paper describing a combined computational and experimental study to assess the influence of confinement in distinct MFI zeolite void environments on propene oligomerization kinetics being published in ACS Catalysis!

Mar. 2025: Congratulations to Ricem Diaz Arroyo on her paper describing passivation of external acid sites in zeolites and their effects on propene oligomerization catalysis being published in the Journal of Catalysis!

Mar. 2025: Congratulations to Jamie Harris for receiving the President's Faculty Research Award from the University of Alabama!

Mar. 2025: Congratulations to Bereket Bekele for receiving the Purdue ChE Outstanding Service Award! Bereket is deeply involved with service to his professional societies, recruiting and mentoring underrepresented minorities in STEM, and regular volunteers in community and scientific outreach programs. A well-deserved honor!

Mar. 2025: Congratulations to Ángel Santiago-Colón on receiving a Richard J. Kokes Travel Award to present his research at the 29th North American Catalysis Society Meeting in Atlanta, GA!

Feb. 2025: Congratulations to former visiting scholar ByungJin Lee for beginning his new position as an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Ulsan!

Feb. 2025: Welcome to Juan Chitiva as a new undergraduate researcher in the group through the UREP-C program!

Jan. 2025: Welcome to Prof. Victor Baldovino Medrano as a visiting Fulbright Scholar, co-hosted with Prof. Enrique Iglesia!

Jan. 2025: Congratulations to Brandon Bolton and our collaborators for their paper regarding mechanistic insights into the reaction hysteresis observed during ammonia oxidation on Pt catalysts being accepted in ACS Catalysis!

Jan. 2025: Congratulations to Tania Class Martinez for receiving the second place oral presentation award at the Catalysis Club of Chicago Young Scientist Symposium!

Jan. 2025: Congratulations to Bryan Cruz Delgado for receiving the first place poster presentation award at the Catalysis Club of Chicago Young Scientist Symposium!

Jan. 2025: Congratulations to Diamarys Salome Rivera for receiving the second place poster presentation award at the Catalysis Club of Chicago Young Scientist Symposium!

Jan. 2025: Congratulations to Andrew Norfleet for receiving a third place poster presentation award at the Catalysis Club of Chicago Young Scientist Symposium!

Jan. 2025: Congratulations to Ángel Santiago-Colón for receiving a third place poster presentation award at the Catalysis Club of Chicago Young Scientist Symposium!

Jan. 2025: Raj Gounder receives the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the United States government.

Jan. 2025: Welcome to Sarah Mollan as a new undergraduate researcher in the group!

Jan. 2025: Raj Gounder is selected to serve on the Editorial Committee of the Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.