Dec. 2022: Congratulations to Elizabeth Bickel for graduating with her PhD! We wish her all the best as she begins her postdoctoral position at the University of Minnesota in the group of Prof. Aditya Bhan!

Dec. 2022: Congratulations to Ravi Joshi on being awarded a U.S. patent on Ni-zeolite catalysts for selective olefin oligomerization!

Nov. 2022: Raj Gounder is selected to serve on the Editorial Board of Catalysis Reviews.

Nov. 2022: Congratulations to Sopuru Ezenwa for receiving an AIChE Minority Affairs Committee Janice Lumpkin Travel Award to attend the annual AIChE meeting in Phoenix!

Nov. 2022: Welcome to Ryoh-Suke Sekiya as a new first year graduate student in our group! Ry received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Nov. 2022: Welcome to Andrew Norfleet as a new first year graduate student in our group! Andrew received his undergraduate degrees in chemical engineering and chemistry from Michigan State University.

Nov. 2022: Welcome to Sarah Gustafson as a new first year graduate student in our group! Sarah received her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of South Carolina.

Nov. 2022: Welcome to Bryan Cruz Delgado as a new first year graduate student in our group! Bryan received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez.

Oct. 2022: Best wishes to Mykela DeLuca as she starts her new position at Mitra Chem!

Oct. 2022: Congratulations to Trevor Lardinois on his co-authored paper with our collaborators in the Crocker (Kentucky) group and Ford and Oak Ridge, discussing the influence of framework Al arrangement in Pd-CHA zeolites on NOx storage behavior being accepted in Applied Catalysis B!

Oct. 2022: Congratulations to Eric Sauer on being selected to receive a CISTAR Undergraduate Fellowship!

Oct. 2022: Congratulations to Elizabeth Bickel on her paper explaining how hydrocarbons occluded within zeolite micropores impose transport barriers that alter rates and selectivities of alkene oligomerization being accepted in JACS Au!

Sep. 2022: Congratulations to Sopuru Ezenwa for receiving a CRE Division travel award to attend the annual AIChE meeting in Phoenix!

Sep. 2022: Congratulations to Songhyun Lee, Claire Nimlos, and Eli Kipp, and our collaborators in the Schneider (Notre Dame) group and at BASF on our paper discussing how framework Al arrangements within crystalline CHA zeolites continue to evolve during hydrothermal treatments being accepted in Crystal Growth & Design! This paper is part of a virtual special issue on “Zeolite Crystal Engineering” dedicated to Prof. Svetlana Mintova in honor of her 60th birthday.  

Sep. 2022: Raj Gounder is profiled in the September 2022 issue of The Catalyst Review in their Movers & Shakers feature.

Aug. 2022: Congratulations to Elizabeth Bickel for receiving the first place oral presentation prize at the Purdue GSO symposium!

Aug. 2022: Raj Gounder, along with Neil Schweitzer (Northwestern) and Rob Rioux (Penn St.), is interviewed by Nature Catalysis to discuss the state of rigor and reproducibility in the field of heterogeneous catalysis research.

Aug. 2022: Congratulations to Lauren Oleksy for receiving a top presentation award at the Purdue SURF undergraduate research symposium!

Jul. 2022: Congratulations to Elizabeth Bickel, Songhyun Lee, Claire Nimlos, Hannah Snider, and Natalie Zamiechowski, and our collaborators in the Hibbitts (Florida) group on our paper discussing methods to alter Al siting and arrangement in MEL zeolites using structure-directing agents being accepted in Chemistry of Materials!

Jun. 2022: Congratulations to Phil Kester, Young Gul Hur, YoonRae Cho and our collaborators on being awarded a U.S. patent on modified zeolite catalysts for olefin oligomerization!

May 2022: Welcome to Lauren Oleksy as an undergraduate researcher in our group as part of the CISTAR summer REU program! Lauren is an undergraduate chemical engineering major from Clarkson University, and will be co-advised by Prof. Brian Tackett.

May 2022: Welcome to Teah Scott as an undergraduate researcher in our group as part of the CISTAR summer REU program! Teah is an undergraduate chemical engineering major from Howard University.

May 2022: Welcome to Nelanne Bolima as an undergraduate researcher in our group as part of the CISTAR summer REU/REM program! Nelanne is an undergraduate chemical engineering major from the University of Maryland - Baltimore County, and will be co-advised by Prof. Brian Tackett.

May 2022: Welcome to Savanna Mack as an undergraduate researcher in our group as part of the CISTAR summer REU/REM program! Savanna is an undergraduate bioengineering major from North Carolina A&T University.

May 2022: Welcome to Dr. Tamara Siquiera Moraes as a visiting scholar in our research group! Tamara is a postdoctoral researcher in the Energy and Nuclear Research Institute in São Paulo, Brazil.

May 2022: Welcome to Sergio Damasceno as a visiting scholar (PhD student) in our research group! Sergio is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Program in Nanosciences and Advanced Materials at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC) in Brazil.

Apr. 2022: Congratulations to Ricem Diaz Arroyo for receiving the CISTAR Dick Reitz Fellowship!

Apr. 2022: Congratulations to Sopuru Ezenwa for receiving the CISTAR Bill Murray Fellowship!

Apr. 2022: Congratulations to Trevor Lardinois on his co-first author paper with our collaborators in the Li (Purdue) and Paolucci (Virginia) groups discussing the Pd particle dispersion into single-ion sites on zeolite supports being accepted in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C!

Apr. 2022: Congratulations to Michael Cordon, Alyssa LaRue, and Zige Huang on being awarded a U.S. patent on processes to prepare sorbose from glucose!

Mar. 2022: Congratulations to Ángel Santiago Colón for receiving a Magoon TA award from Purdue ChE for his efforts in fall 2021 as a teaching assistant for ChE 610, Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics!

Mar. 2022: Congratulations to undergraduate alum Hannah Snider for receiving a 2022 Barry Goldwater Scholarship!

Mar. 2022: Congratulations to Elizabeth Bickel on receiving an ACS CATL Division Travel Award to present her research at the spring 2022 ACS meeting in San Diego, CA!

Mar. 2022: Congratulations to Sopuru Ezenwa for receiving a Kokes Award to attend NAM27 in New York!

Feb. 2022: Congratulations to Sopuru Ezenwa for receiving a NSBE BCA/Affiliate/Fellows Scholarship!

Feb. 2022: Welcome to Geoffrey Hopping, an undergraduate junior in chemical engineering from Purdue, as a new researcher in our group!

Jan. 2022: Congratulations to Elizabeth Bickel for receiving a top poster prize at the 2022 Catalysis Club of Chicago symposium!

Jan. 2022: Raj Gounder is selected to serve on the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Catalysis.

Dec. 2021: Congratulations to Siddarth Krishna for completing his postdoctoral stay in our group! He will start as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin in January 2022! We wish him all the best in his new position!

Nov. 2021: Welcome to Justin Rosa Rojas as a new first year graduate student in our group! He will also be co-advised by Fabio Ribeiro. Justin received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez.

Nov. 2021: Welcome to Christian Borrero Villabol as a new first year graduate student in our group! He will also be co-advised by Fabio Ribeiro. Christian received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez.

Nov. 2021: Welcome to Diamarys Salome Rivera as a new first year graduate student in our group! Diamarys received her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez.

Nov. 2021: Welcome to Lauren Kilburn as a new first year graduate student in our group! Lauren received her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of Florida.

Nov. 2021: Congratulations to Richard Caulkins and Ravi Joshi on their paper discussing deactivation of Ni-based porous catalysts during ethene oligomerization being accepted in ChemCatChem!

Oct. 2021: Congratulations to Laura Wilcox on her co-first author paper with Siddarth Krishna discussing the kinetics of ammonia-only reduction of Cu(II) sites in Cu-CHA zeolites being accepted in Catalysis Science & Technology!

Oct. 2021: Congratulations to Laura Wilcox for graduating with her PhD! We wish her all the best in her next position at Aramco in Boston!

Sep. 2021: Welcome to Paubla Gallego, a visiting undergraduate researcher through the UREP-C program!

Sep. 2021: Welcome to Angie Ocampo, a visiting undergraduate researcher through the UREP-C program!

Sep. 2021: Raj Gounder is selected by the spring 2021 graduating class to receive the 2022 R. Norris Shreve Award for Outstanding Teaching in Chemical Engineering.

Sep. 2021: Congratulations to Arunima Saxena and Ravi Joshi, and our research collaborators at Purdue (Greeley group) and Northwestern (Broadbelt group), on our paper discussing active site-density-dependent deactivation kinetics during ethene dimerization on Ni-Beta zeolites being accepted in ACS Engineering Au!

Sep. 2021: Welcome to David Ramirez, a visiting undergraduate researcher through the Nexo Global program!

Sep. 2021: Congratulations to Laura Wilcox on her co-first author paper with our collaborators at the University of Illinois ( Flaherty group) and the University of Virginia (Paolucci group) detailing the kinetics of dioxygen activation on Cu-CHA zeolites being accepted in ACS Catalysis!

Sep. 2021: Welcome to Eric Sauer, an undergraduate junior in chemical engineering from Purdue, as a new researcher in our group!

Aug. 2021: Congratulations to Laura Wilcox on receiving an ACS CATL Division Travel Award to present her research at the fall 2021 ACS meeting in Atlanta, GA!

Aug. 2021: Congratulations to Sopuru Ezenwa for receiving the first place poster award in catalysis and reaction engineering at the 2021 Purdue GSO Symposium!

Aug. 2021: Congratulations to Siddarth Krishna and Casey Jones for their paper describing the temperature dependence of Cu reduction and oxidation half-cycles during NOx SCR in Cu-CHA zeolites being accepted in the Journal of Catalysis! This paper will appear in the virtual special issue in honor of Professor Michel Boudart.

Aug. 2021: Congratulations to Casey Jones for graduating with his PhD! We wish him all the best in his next position at Dow in Midland!

Aug. 2021: Congratulations to Elizabeth Bickel for receiving a 2021 Purdue SURF Program Graduate Mentor of the Summer award!

Aug. 2021: Congratulations to Huston Locht for receiving a top presentation award at the Purdue SURF undergraduate research symposium!

Aug. 2021: Welcome to Mykela DeLuca as the newest postdoctoral researcher in our group! Mykela graduated with a PhD from Florida under the direction of Prof. David Hibbitts.

Jul. 2021: Congratulations to Siddarth Krishna for accepting a position to become an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin to start in January 2022!

Jul. 2021: Congratulations to Trevor Lardinois for graduating with his PhD! We wish him all the best in his next position at Exponent in Chicago!

Jun. 2021: Congratulations to group alumnus Prof. Jamie Harris for receiving an ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award for 2021-22!

Jun. 2021: Welcome to Olivia Gluth, an undergraduate from the University of Washington, as a new summer researcher in our group as part of the CISTAR REU program!

Jun. 2021: Welcome to Miranda Chavez, a high school teacher from Albuquerque, NM as a new summer researcher in our group as part of the virtual CISTAR RET program!

Jun. 2021: Welcome to Heather Valois, a high school teacher from Albuquerque, NM as a new summer researcher in our group as part of the virtual CISTAR RET program!

Jun. 2021: Raj Gounder receives a 2021 CISTAR Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award.

May 2021: Welcome to Hannah Snider, an undergraduate from Rose-Hulman, as a new summer researcher in our group as part of the CISTAR REU and Purdue SURF programs!

May 2021: Welcome to Huston Locht, an undergraduate from the University of Florida, as a new summer researcher in our group as part of the CISTAR REU and Purdue SURF programs!

May 2021: Raj Gounder is elected to serve as the President of the Catalysis Club of Chicago for the 2021-2022 meeting season.

May 2021: Congratulations to Eli Kipp for receiving the Undergraduate Research Award from Purdue ChE at this year's senior banquet!

May 2021: Congratulations to Harrison Lippie for receiving a Fulbright Scholarship through the U. S. Student Program! He will conduct research in the lab of Prof. Johannes Lercher at TU-Munich.

May 2021: Congratulations to Viktor Cybulskis and the Purdue Catalysis Center Outreach team on our paper discussing the catalytic combustion of hydrogen demonstration being accepted in the Journal of Chemical Education!

Apr. 2021: Congratulations to Elizabeth Bickel and Claire Nimlos on our Perspective describing the development of quantitative synthesis-structure-function relations for framework Al arrangement effects in zeolite acid catalysis being accepted in the Journal of Catalysis!

Apr. 2021: Purdue's Board of Trustees approves Raj Gounder's promotion to full professor of chemical engineering, effective August 16, 2021.

Apr. 2021: Congratulations to Siddarth Krishna and Casey Jones on our invited review article describing the dynamic interconversion of metal active site ensembles in zeolite catalysis being accepted in Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering!

Mar. 2021: Congratulations to Siddarth Krishna on receiving the 2021 Purdue COE Outstanding Postdoctoral Researcher Award! This award recognizes the accomplishments and contributions of postdoctoral researchers currently employed in Purdue’s College of Engineering who are pursuing careers in academia or entrepreneurship and innovation. Read more in the ChE press release!

Mar. 2021: Raj Gounder receives the 2021 Purdue ChE Outstanding Faculty Mentor of Engineering Graduate Students.

Mar. 2021: Congratulations to Ricem Diaz Arroyo for receiving an Honorable Mention from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the 2020-21 cycle!

Feb. 2021: Congratulations to Jason Bates on his review paper detailing how the molecular clusters and extended solvent networks influence turnover rates of zeolite acid-catalyzed reactions being accepted in Chemical Science!

Feb. 2021: Raj Gounder receives the ACS CATL Early Career Award in Catalysis. We are honored by this recognition of our research group and the contributions of all its members, past and present.

Feb. 2021: Raj Gounder is selected to serve on the Editorial Board for Science Advances as an Associate Editor.

Jan. 2021: Congratulations to Trevor Lardinois, Jason Bates, Harrison Lippie, and our collaborators on our paper describing the restructuring of Pd clusters into isolated ion sites in chabazite zeolites being accepted in Chemistry of Materials!

Jan. 2021: Congratulations to Elizabeth Bickel on her co-authored paper with our collaborators (Linda Broadbelt, Sergio Vernuccio) on microkinetic modeling of propene oligomerization on Beta zeolites being accepted in Journal of Catalysis!