Caps off to the Class of 2026! 🎓✨ Our Chemical Engineers are ready to change the world — one reaction at a time.🖤💛
Congratulations, Boilermakers! Now show us YOUR moment — share your grad photos and tag us for a chance to be featured on our page! 📸
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Please join us in welcoming Kaustav Bera, Ph.D., to Purdue Chemical Engineering as an assistant professor! 🎉
Bera’s research explores how physical forces within cellular environments influence cell behavior, tissue function and diseases such as cancer — helping advance new approaches in regenerative medicine and therapeutic discovery.
Before joining Purdue, Bera conducted research at @cuengineering and earned his Ph.D. from @jhu_chembe after completing his undergraduate education at @iitkharagpur .
Welcome to Purdue, Kaustav! đźš‚
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Thank you, Boilermakers đź’›
Your support on Purdue Day of Giving is already making a difference for Chemical Engineering students and research.
We’re so grateful to have you in our corner.
#PurdueDayOfGiving #BoilerUp
Tomorrow is your opportunity to be a Boilermaker hero.
#PurdueDayOfGiving begins at midnight ET! Get all of the details at the link in our bio.
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Top 2% in the field. 🔬
Julie Liu has been named a 2026 Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering—one of the highest honors in biomedical engineering. Learn more at the link in our bio.
#BoilerUp #WomenInEngineering #Purdue #ChemE
The Davidson School of Chemical Engineering welcomed Dr. Jeffrey A. Hubbell of New York University for the 2026 Kelly Lecture. Hubbell presented a lecture titled “Molecular Engineering to Tip Immune Balances Between Tolerance and Aggression" to both faculty and current graduate students.
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Purdue Chemical Engineering is still among the best in the nation 🔥
Our graduate program is ranked No. 14 in the U.S.—a reflection of the research, innovation and students driving impact every day.
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Introducing our 2026 Distinguished Engineering Alumni!
Christopher Bowman (BSChE '88, PhD ChE '91) is a Distinguished Professor and James and Catherin Patten Endowed Chair at the University of Colorado Boulder, Chemical and Biological Engineering.
Bowman has pioneered high-impact innovations in the field of polymer science. His dedication to pursuing scientific challenges is highlighted by his membership in three national academies: the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Inventors, and the National Academy of Medicine.
To this day, Christopher Bowman still looks back on some of his Purdue course notes when he is preparing for his own chemical engineering classes.
“The curriculum at the undergrad level provided me with an exceptional foundation that enabled me to succeed in graduate school and to be able to teach those classes in my first job as a faculty member,” he said.
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Amanda Nesbitt knew #engineering would be difficult. So a determining factor in her #college choice was an environment that would be collaborative, not competitive.
She found that at #PurdueUniversity in West Lafayette where “people are the nicest ever” and “always willing to help others.”
But Nesbitt’s first year at #Purdue also has come with surprises.
No. 1: Engineering isn’t just a grind.
“Purdue makes engineering enjoyable, which I never would have expected,” said Nesbitt, a John Martinson Honors College ambassador intending to major in chemical engineering and the latest student to be featured in “Faces of Purdue Engineering.”
No. 2: There are plenty of opportunities for release when engineering is, in fact, a grind.
An advisor encouraged Nesbitt to pursue interests outside of an engineering major and asked a simple question to get to the root of what that could be: What are you passionate about learning?
“I love art,” said the Charlotte, N.C., native, “and I never thought it could be an option to study alongside engineering.”
Now, she’s pursuing an art history minor, something she hadn’t been planning.
But it hasn’t just been about pursuing known passions for the first-year student. Nesbitt also has been encouraged to try new things, and that produced Surprise No. 3: an interest she never knew she had.
Nesbitt joined the improv comedy group “The Crazy Monkeys.”
“Purdue is continuously shaping me into not only an engineer but also a well-rounded person,” Nesbitt said.
When presenting a solution to remove excess carbon in the air, most #engineers probably wouldn’t think of a box.
But the #PurdueEngineers who created BoilerCube thought a carbon-sequestering cube was a brilliant idea.
It started after founders and @purduecheme students Andrew Dyba, Emmy Huang and Jeremy Sapp heard about the concept through the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Chem-E Cube Competition, where student teams design and present a compact solution for a real-world chemical engineering problem. The challenge in 2025 was to clear as much carbon as possible from the air — and the BoilerCube team placed third overall, winning extra recognition for the team’s business presentation.
With the student org in its second year, BoilerCube is gearing up for a new solution “in the box” and is calling for new teammates from any engineering discipline to participate.
Listen to what BoilerCube members Dyba, Phoebe Smock (@purdueabe ) and Jade Kroell (ChE) have to say about getting involved — and learn more about the student org at the link in @purdueundergradengineers ’ bio.
Every Boilermaker victory starts somewhere—a scholarship, an opportunity, a breakthrough. This #PurdueDayOfGiving, the next victory starts with heroes like you.
Join us one month from today, on April 29, to make victories possible. Learn more at dayofgiving.purdue.edu.
