Welcome to our 2025 CISTAR Summer Program Participants!

CISTAR welcomed the 2025 REU and RET participants at Purdue University, University of New Mexico, and The University of Texas at Austin.

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. ...

Akash Nogaja Receives 2025 Faculty Lectureship Award for Groundbreaking Work on Energy-Efficient Distillation

CISTAR is proud to announce that Akash Nogaja, a Purdue Chemical Engineering graduate student, has been awarded the 2025 Faculty Lectureship Award, which ...

CISTAR PhD Student Luke Pretzie Awarded Prestigious DOE SCGSR Fellowship to Conduct Research at Argonne National Laboratory

Luke Pretzie, a fourth-year PhD student in Professor Jeffrey Greeley’s research group at Purdue University, has been accepted into the highly competitive U.S. ...

Ted Kim Awarded the Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon Teaching Award

Ted Kim, a CISTAR Graduate Fellow, has been awarded the prestigious Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon Teaching Award by Purdue University's College of Engineering. ...

David Bernal Invited to Second Connections to Sustain Science in Latin America Symposium

David Bernal, assistant professor of chemical engineering and co-director of COOPS, has been invited to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and ...

Professor Can Li Receives NSF CAREER Award to develop optimization-inspired neural networks

Professor Can Li, Co-Director of the Purdue Center for Operations and Optimization in Process Systems (COOPS) and Assistant Professor in the Davidson School of ...

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, ...