Dr. Joan Brennecke and Dr. Benny D. Freeman Awarded the 2025 Hill Prize in Engineering

CISTAR professors at The University of Texas at Austin received Lyda Hill Philanthropies 2025 Hill Prize in Engineering. This award recognizes groundbreaking, ...

Purdue Researchers Pioneer Flexible ‘Electric Reaction-Towers’ to Decarbonize Chemical Manufacturing

A research team at Purdue University has designed a new type of chemical reactor—Electric Reaction-Towers (ERTs)—capable of operating efficiently on ...

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Professor Can Li awarded scientific prize and research contract with Air Liquide

Congratulations Can Li, assistant professor with Purdue University Chemical Engineering and CISTAR NSF Engineering Research Center researcher who was awarded ...

Alexander Dowling recognized among 2025 Graduate School award winners

Alexander Dowling, CISTAR faculty member and associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is the winner of the James A. ...

Feature Publication: Congratulations to CISTAR Graduate Fellow, Bereket Bekele, on his paper on the kinetic consequences of extraframework Al species on acid-catalyzed alkane cracking and dehydrogenation reactions being accepted in ACS Catalysis.

Congratulations to CISTAR Graduate Fellow, Bereket Bekele, on his paper on the kinetic consequences of extraframework Al species on acid-catalyzed alkane ...