Incoming Assistant Professor, Tayler Hebner, received the 2024 Glenn H. Brown Prize from the International Liquid Crystal Society. The award commemorates work done by a doctoral graduate whose thesis work made significant contributions to liquid crystal science.

Energetic materials — explosives, propellants and pyrotechnics — are essential to national security strategy, but in recent years, the enterprise has struggled with workforce attrition and a lack of replacement hiring. The Advancing Army Modernization Priorities – Undergraduate Program (AAMP-UP), a collaboration between the Purdue Energetics Research Center (PERC) and DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (ARL), aims to bolster the workforce by creating a network of students from a variety of backgrounds who are excited about energetic materials research.

Isaac Wheeler, a chemical engineering Ph.D. candidate and LyoHUB researcher, has been offered a Fulbright Open Study/Research Grant to conduct freeze drying research in Torino, Italy.