Dec. 2020: Congratulations to Phil Kester on his paper, authored together with our collaborators at Notre Dame (Bill Schneider and team) discussing effects of Brønsted acid site pairing in CHA zeolites on OH infrared spectra and protolytic propane cracking kinetics being accepted in the Journal of Catalysis!

Dec. 2020: Welcome to Ángel Santiago Colón as a new graduate student from the 2020 incoming class to join the group! Ángel completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez and received a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in 2020.

Dec. 2020: Welcome to Bereket Bekele as a new graduate student from the 2020 incoming class to join the group! Bereket completed his undergraduate studies at Northern Kentucky University in 2020.

Dec. 2020: Welcome to Boen (Bonn) Cao as a new graduate student from the 2020 incoming class to join the group! Bonn completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Minnesota in 2020.

Dec. 2020: Welcome to Tania Class Martinez as a new graduate student from the 2020 incoming class to join the group! Tania completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez in 2020.

Nov. 2020: Welcome to Songhyun Lee as the newest postdoctoral researcher in our group! Songhyun graduated with a PhD from KAIST under the direction of Prof. Minkee Choi.

Oct. 2020: Congratulations to Casey Jones for receiving a CRE Division Travel Award to attend the 2020 virtual AIChE annual meeting (originally scheduled for San Francisco, CA)!

Oct. 2020: Congratulations to Claire Nimlos for graduating with a PhD from the group! We wish her all the best in her next position at NREL!

Oct. 2020: Congratulations to Elizabeth Bickel for receiving the third place poster pitch prize at the 2020 Biannual CISTAR Meeting!

Oct. 2020: Congratulations to Claire Nimlos on her paper, authored together with John Di Iorio, Young Gul Hur, and Byung Jin Lee and our collaborators at the University of Florida (David Hibbitts and team) discussing methods to quantify and alter Al proximity in MFI zeolites being accepted in Chemistry of Materials!

Sep. 2020: Congratulations to Juan Carlos Vega-Vila on his paper discussing methods to quantify intraporous silanol defects in zeolites and their effects on aqueous-phase sugar isomerization catalysis being accepted in ACS Catalysis!

Aug. 2020: Congratulations to Ravi Joshi and Arunima Saxena on their mini-review discussing alkene chain growth reaction mechanisms and kinetics on Ni-based porous materials being accepted in Catalysis Science & Technology!

 Aug. 2020: Raj Gounder is elected to serve as the vice president and program chair for the Catalysis Club of Chicago for the 2020-2021 meeting season.

Aug. 2020: Welcome to Adam Rohrs as the newest undergraduate researcher in our group!

Aug. 2020: Welcome to Samantha Land as the newest undergraduate researcher in our group!

Aug. 2020: Congratulations to Casey Jones on receiving the first place oral presentation prize in the catalysis division at the Purdue GSO Symposium!

Aug. 2020: Congratulations to Lauren Kilburn for receiving a top presentation award at the Purdue SURF undergraduate research symposium!

Aug. 2020: Congratulations to Jason Bates on his paper detailing how kinetic measurements of dehydration reactions of mixed methanol-ethanol feeds provides evidence for the formation of alkanol clusters that inhibit rates of forming certain ether products in acidic zeolites being accepted in Journal of Catalysis!

Aug. 2020: Congratulations to John Di Iorio and our Notre Dame collaborators (Schneider group) on our Account describing solvation and mobilization of Cu active sites in zeolites during low-temperature NOx SCR catalysis being accepted in Accounts of Chemical Research!

Jul. 2020: Congratulations to Jamie Harris, Jason Bates, and our collaborators (Greeley group) on our perspective discussing how more complete descriptions of active centers beyond their binding sites can motivate new research opportunities in metal-zeolite catalysts being accepted in ACS Catalysis!

Jul. 2020: Congratulations to Jason Bates, John Di Iorio, Claire Nimlos, and our collaborators at the University of Florida (David Hibbitts and team) on our paper describing how hydrogen-bonding interactions lead to the acceleration of alkanol dehydration turnover rates at certain arrangements of paired acid sites in zeolites being accepted in Angewandte Chemie!

Jun. 2020: Congratulations to Michael Cordon and Juan Carlos Vega-Vila on their paper regarding the influence of spatial constraints in titanium-zeolites on the selectivity toward glucose-sorbose isomerization being accepted in Angewandte Chemie!

Jun. 2020: Congratulations to Jason Bates and our collaborators (Greeley group) on our paper detailing how the formation of water-ethanol clusters and extended hydrogen-bonded networks influences ethanol dehydration catalysis in acidic zeolites being accepted in Chemical Science!

Jun. 2020: Congratulations to Phil Kester on his paper detailing the role of carbonaceous deposits on catalyzing alkane dehydrogenation reactions on acidic zeolites being accepted in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C! 

Jun. 2020: Congratulations to Natalie Zamiechowski for being selected as a CISTAR Undergraduate Fellow!

Jun. 2020: Congratulations to Siddarth Krishna and Casey Jones on their perspective article on the experimental interrogation of SCR catalysts in operando being accepted in Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters! 

Jun. 2020: Congratulations to John Di Iorio on being awarded a U.S. patent on synthetic methods to control framework Al distribution in CHA zeolites!

May 2020: Congratulations to Casey Jones, Siddarth Krishna, and co-workers on their paper on the effects of dioxygen pressure on SCR rates on Cu-CHA zeolites being accepted in the Journal of Catalysis!

May 2020: Welcome to Lauren Kilburn, an undergraduate summer researcher in our group through the CISTAR REU program! Lauren is currently an undergraduate at the University of Florida researching under Prof. David Hibbitts.

May 2020: Congratulations to Natalie Zamiechowski for receiving the Amelia Earhart Scholarship, which is one of Purdue University's highest awards for the academic year, and will be recognized at the Spring 2020 Commencement!

May 2020: Congratulations to Young Gul Hur for completing his post-doctoral appointment in our group! We wish him the best of luck in his next position at Hyundai Motor Company!

Apr. 2020: Congratulations to Laura Wilcox for receiving the  Marilyn Forney Trailblazer Award for 2020! This award recognizes an outstanding female ChE student whose impact has helped pave the way for women in the field of engineering, based on contribution, participation, leadership and service in the Women in Engineering Program, Women in Chemical Engineering Seminar, and related programs.  A well-deserved honor!

Apr. 2020: Congratulations to Jason Bates for receiving an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellowship (NIH F32) on his proposal to study chemoselective heterogeneous catalysts for oxidative amide coupling!

Mar. 2020: Congratulations to Siddarth Krishna for receiving an International Congress on Catalysis Travel Award to attend the 17th ICC meeting in San Diego, CA!

Mar. 2020: Congratulations to Jason Bates for receiving the 2020 Purdue College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award!

Mar. 2020: Congratulations to Brandon Bolton for receiving a Magoon TA award from Purdue ChE for his efforts in fall 2019 as a teaching assistant for ChE 450, Design & Analysis of Processing Systems!

Mar. 2020: Congratulations to Phil Kester for graduating with a PhD from the group! We wish him all the best in his next position at Dow!

Feb. 2020: Congratulations to John Di Iorio, Casey Jones and Claire Nimlos on their paper with our Notre Dame and BASF collaborators on the effects of inorganic and organic SDA occlusion in CHA zeolites on their Al distribution being accepted in the Journal of the American Chemical Society!

Feb. 2020: Congratulations to Kaela Evans for receiving a second-place poster prize at the Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM!

Jan. 2020: Raj Gounder co-authors a perspective article with Mark Davis and group alumni about initiating a research-focused academic career in chemical engineering in the AIChE Journal (article available open access).

Jan. 2020: Welcome to Natalie Zamiechowski as a new undergraduate researcher in our group!

Dec. 2019: Congratulations to Juan Carlos Vega-Vila for graduating with a PhD from the group! We wish him the best in his next position as a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA in the Dante Simonetti and  Gaurav Sant research groups.

Dec. 2019: Congratulations to Jason Bates for graduating with a PhD from the group! We wish him the best in his next position as a postdoctoral researcher at Wisconsin in the Shannon Stahl research group.

Nov. 2019: Congratulations to Elizabeth Bickel for being selected to receive the 2019-2020 Phillips 66 Graduate Fellowship in Chemical Engineering!

Nov. 2019: Congratulations to Jason Bates for receiving the first place graduate student presentation award of the 2019 AIChE Materials Engineering & Sciences Division (MESD) in Area 8D Inorganic Materials!

Nov. 2019: Welcome to Ricem Diaz Arroyo as a new graduate student from the 2019 incoming class to join the group! Ricem completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez in 2019.

Oct. 2019: Raj Gounder is elected to serve as the AIChE programming chair for Area 20A (Catalysis) in the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division for 2020-2021.

Oct. 2019: Congratulations to John Di Iorio and Claire Nimlos on their paper with our Florida collaborators, David Hibbitts, Alex Hoffman and Steven Nystrom, on the mechanistic origins of high-pressure inhibition of methanol dehydration rates on small-pore zeolites being accepted in the Journal of Catalysis!

Sep. 2019: Congratulations to Juan Carlos Vega-Vila and Jamie Harris on being award a U.S. patent on synthetic methods to incorporate Sn atoms in zeolite frameworks!

Sep. 2019: Congratulations to Jason Bates on his co-authored paper with Brandon Bukowski and Jeff Greeley on defect‐mediated ordering of condensed water structures in microporous zeolites being accepted in Angewandte Chemie International Edition!

Sep. 2019: Congratulations to Phil Kester for receiving a CRE Division Travel Award to attend the 2019 AIChE annual meeting in Orlando, FL!

Aug. 2019: Welcome to Lucas Baston as a new undergraduate researcher in our group!

Aug. 2019: Congratulations to Elizabeth Bickel on her co-authored paper with our Northwestern collaborators, Linda Broadbelt and Sergio Vernuccio, on microkinetic modeling of propene oligomerization on acid zeolites being accepted in ACS Catalysis!

Aug. 2019: Congratulations to Claire Nimlos on receiving the first place oral presentation prize in the catalysis division at the Purdue GSO Symposium!

Aug. 2019: Congratulations to Laura Wilcox on receiving the first place poster presentation prize in the catalysis division at the Purdue GSO Symposium!

Aug. 2019: Welcome to Siddarth Krishna as the newest postdoctoral researcher in our group, and for being named the School of Chemical Engineering's first Henson Postdoctoral Fellow!

Jul. 2019: Welcome to Juan Alban as the newest undergraduate researcher in our group, as a visiting scholar through the UREP-C program!

Jul. 2019: Congratulations to Ravi Joshi for graduating with a PhD from the group! We wish him the best in his next position at Phillips 66 in Bartlesville, OK as a Technology Staff Engineer!

Jul. 2019: Welcome to Elijah Kipp as a new undergraduate researcher in our group!

Jun. 2019: Congratulations to Ravi Joshi for receiving the Bill Murray CISTAR Graduate Fellowship!

Jun. 2019: Congratulations to Young Gul Hur and Phil Kester on having their co-first-author paper on the influence of structure-directing agents on Al arrangements in B-Al-MFI zeolites accepted in the NASCRE-4 special issue of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research!

Jun. 2019: Congratulations to Laura Wilcox on receiving the second place poster prize at the 12th Natural Gas Conversion Symposium!

May 2019: Congratulations to Jason Bates on having his first-author paper on the structure, coordination and reactivity of Sn located in zeolite framework defect sites accepted in ACS Catalysis!

May 2019: Welcome to Holly Reichard as a high school teacher in our group this summer through the CISTAR RET program!

May 2019: Welcome to Marie Mikels as a high school teacher in our group this summer through the CISTAR RET program!

May 2019: Welcome to Kaela Evans as a new undergraduate researcher in our group this summer through the CISTAR REU program!

May 2019: Welcome to Hannah Bossert as a new undergraduate researcher in our group this summer through the CISTAR REU program!

May 2019: Welcome to Christian Borrero as a new undergraduate researcher in our group this summer through the CISTAR REU program!

May 2019: Welcome to Kendra Lin as a new undergraduate researcher in our group this summer!

May 2019: Congratulations to PhD alumnus Jamie Harris for accepting a position to join the Chemical and Biological Engineering faculty at the University of Alabama as an assistant professor in the fall! We wish him all the best as he starts his independent scientific career.

May 2019: Raj Gounder and Ahmad Moini (BASF) co-guest edit a themed issue on Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOx in Reaction Chemistry & Engineering.

May 2019: Congratulations to Claire Nimlos for receiving the  2019 ChE Excellence in Safety Award!

Apr. 2019: Congratulations to Brian Bayer for receiving one of the Undergraduate Research Awards at this year's ChE Senior Awards Banquet!

Apr. 2019: Congratulations to Claire Nimlos for receiving the  Marilyn Forney Trailblazer Award for 2019! This award recognizes an outstanding female ChE student whose impact has helped pave the way for women in the field of engineering, based on contribution, participation, leadership and service in the Women in Engineering Program, Women in Chemical Engineering Seminar, and related programs.  A well-deserved honor!

Apr. 2019: Raj Gounder will serve as a poster program co-chair for the 17th International Congress on Catalysis in San Diego, CA in 2020.

Mar. 2019: Congratulations to Michael Cordon on having his paper on the deactivation of Sn-Beta zeolites in hot liquid water accepted in  Catalysis Science & Technology!

Mar. 2019: Congratulations to John Di Iorio for being selected to receive a 2019 ChE Citation Award! His paper titled "Introducing Catalytic Diversity into Single-Site Chabazite Zeolites of Fixed Composition via Synthetic Control of Active Site Proximity" (ACS Catalysis, 7 (2017) 6663-6674) has been cited 14 times to date.

Feb. 2019: Welcome to ByungJin Lee as a new visiting scholar in the group! ByungJin is currently a PhD candidate at Korea University in the group of Prof. Kwan-Young Lee.

Feb. 2019: Raj Gounder is selected to receive the 2019 Purdue College of Engineering Faculty Excellence Award for Early Career Research.

Feb. 2019: Congratulations to Juan Carlos Vega-Vila for receiving an ACS CATL Division Travel Award to present his work at the 2019 Spring ACS meeting meeting in Orlando, FL!

Jan. 2019: Welcome to Sunanda Prasad as the newest undergraduate researcher in the group!

Jan. 2019: Welcome to Harrison Lippie as the newest undergraduate researcher in the group!

Dec. 2018: Congratulations to John Di Iorio for graduating with a PhD from the group! We wish him the best in his next position as a postdoctoral researcher at MIT in the Yuriy Román-Leshkov research group.

Dec. 2018: Congratulations to Michael Cordon for graduating with a PhD from the group! We wish him the best in his next position as a postdoctoral researcher at  Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the Applied Catalysis and Emissions Research Group led by Jim Parks.

Nov. 2018: Congratulations to Phil Kester for receiving the top poster prize in the CRE Division poster session for area 20B (reaction engineering) at the 2018 AIChE meeting in Pittsburgh, PA!

Nov. 2018: Welcome to Andrew Mikes as one of three graduate students from the 2018 incoming class to join the group! Andrew completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Notre Dame in 2018.

Nov. 2018: Welcome to Sopuru Ezenwa as one of three graduate students from the 2018 incoming class to join the group! Sopuru completed his undergraduate studies at Tufts University in 2018.

Nov. 2018: Welcome to Brandon Bolton as one of three graduate students from the 2018 incoming class to join the group! Brandon completed his undergraduate studies at the University of South Carolina in 2018.

Oct. 2018: Congratulations to Ravi Joshi on having his paper on the ethene dimerization mechanism on Ni-zeolites accepted in ACS Catalysis!

Sep. 2018: Congratulations to Michael Cordon on having his paper on the role of entropy in stabilizing sugar isomerization transition states in hydrophobic zeolites accepted in the Journal of the American Chemical Society!

Sep. 2018: Raj Gounder is selected for the 2018 Class of Influential Researchers by Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.

Sep. 2018: Congratulations to Rohan Dighe on receiving a 2018 Donald F. Othmer Sophomore Academic Excellence Award from the AIChE!

Sep. 2018: Congratulations to Hannah McGinness for being named an OUR Scholar and being selected to receive a Purdue Office of Undergraduate Research Scholarship!

Sep. 2018: Raj Gounder receives the 2019 R. Norris Shreve Award for Outstanding Teaching in Chemical Engineering.

Sep. 2018: We welcome Matthew Jacob as a new undergraduate researcher in the group! He will be working on a project co-advised with Prof. Ray Mentzer through P2SAC.

Aug. 2018: Congratulations to Jason Bates for receiving a CRE Division Travel Award to attend the 2018 AIChE annual meeting in Pittsburgh, PA!

Jul. 2018: Congratulations to Jason Bates on having his paper and his collaborative paper with the Greeley group on ethanol dehydration catalysis on hydrophobic and hydrophilic Lewis acid zeolites both accepted in the Journal of Catalysis!

Jul. 2018: Congratulations to Hannah McGinness for being selected to receive the prestigious Donald C. and Marion E. Currier Scholarship!

Jun. 2018: Welcome to Gabe Mason, a high school student at Lafayette Jefferson High School, as the newest researcher in our group this summer through the CISTAR Young Scholars program!

Jun. 2018: Raj Gounder receives a DOE Early Career Award to study the catalytic phenomenon of dynamic multinuclear active site formation for selective methane oxidation. We thank the DOE Office of Science for this support and recognition.

May 2018: Claire Nimlos departs to the Chevron Energy Technology Company in Richmond, CA to complete a summer internship in the research group of Dr. Stacey Zones.

May 2018: Congratulations to Juan Carlos Vega-Vila for receiving an outstanding poster award at the Catalysis Club of Chicago spring symposium!

May 2018: Congratulations to Phil Kester for receiving the first-place oral presentation award at the Michigan Catalysis Society spring symposium!

May 2018: Congratulations to Jason Bates for receiving the first-place poster presentation award at the Michigan Catalysis Society spring symposium!

May 2018: We welcome Melanie Brunet as a new undergraduate researcher in the group! Melanie will be completing a summer REU project in CISTAR and the Purdue SURF program.

May 2018: We welcome Jiayang Wu as a new undergraduate researcher in the group! Jiayang will be participating in the Purdue SURF program in the summer of 2018.

Apr. 2018: Congratulations to Rebecca Reitzel for receiving one of the Undergraduate Research Awards at this year's ChE Senior Awards Banquet!

Apr. 2018: Congratulations to Trevor Lardinois for receiving a Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award for his performance as a teaching assistant in ChE 378 in fall 2018!

Apr. 2018: Congratulations to Phil Kester on having his paper on ammonia titration methods to quantify acid sites in boroaluminosilicate zeolites accepted in Industrial Engineering & Chemistry Research!

Apr. 2018: Congratulations to Rebecca Reitzel for winning the second-place poster prize at the AIChE North Central Regional conference!

Apr. 2018: Purdue's Board of Trustees approves Raj Gounder's promotion to associate professor of chemical engineering, effective August 13, 2018.

Apr. 2018: Congratulations to John Di Iorio for being selected to receive the 2018 Faculty Lectureship Award in Purdue ChE! His lecture will take place on Thursday, April 26, 2018.

Apr. 2018: Congratulations to Jamie Harris for being selected to receive a 2018 ChE Citation Award! His paper titled "Titration and Quantification of Open and Closed Lewis Acid Sites in Sn-Beta Zeolites that Catalyze Glucose Isomerization" (Journal of Catalysis, 335 (2016) 141-154) has been cited 36 times to date.

Apr. 2018: Congratulations to Claire Nimlos for being recognized with the Purdue College of Engineering Outstanding Service Award! Claire has led the organization of outreach events to benefit the local community in K-12 education, elderly care, conservation, animal welfare, and food insecurity. A well-deserved honor!

Mar. 2018: Raj Gounder and Casey Jones deliver a presentation and demonstration about chemical engineering and catalysis to local 3rd-5th grade students and their parents as part of the Omega Chi Epsilon ChemE Kids Day.

Mar. 2018: Congratulations to Hannah McGinness for being selected as a CISTAR Undergraduate Fellow!

Mar. 2018: Congratulations to Ravi Joshi for being recognized with the Purdue Presidential Safety Award! Ravi has made significant contributions to establish and improve the safety culture in our research group, within the School of Chemical Engineering, and at Purdue’s campus-level. Truly a well-deserved honor!

Feb. 2018: Raj Gounder is selected to receive an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in chemistry. We are grateful to the Sloan Foundation for this support.

Jan. 2018: We welcome Hannah McGinness as a new undergraduate researcher in the group!