Purdue University's College of Engineering has named four pre-eminent teams to focus on research ranging from drug delivery to nanomanufacturing. One of the four teams is headed by and comprised of School of Aeronautics and Astronautics faculty members: Dr. Sergey Macheret; Dr. Alina Alexeenko; and Dr. Sally Bane. Team members Dr. Timothy Fisher and Dr. Robert Lucht, professors of Mechanical Engineering, are faculty members in the School of AAE by courtesy.

Purdue University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics will host a watch party for the launch of NASA's Orion spacecraft on Thursday, December 4, 2014. The public is invited to attend the party beginning at 4:30 am in Kurz Atrium of Armstrong Hall. The launch is expected at 7:05 am.

Purdue University's Milad Alucozai has been chosen as one of only 12 U.S. students to receive the nationally prestigious Mitchell Scholarship for graduate study in Ireland. He is Purdue's first Mitchell Scholarship recipient. To win this award, Alucozai proved extraordinary commitment to scholarship, leadership and community service.

Purdue University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics undergraduate student Emily Zimovan was presented with the Women in Aerospace (WIA) Foundation and ATK Scholarship at the 29th Annual Women in Aerospace Awards on October 29, 2014. The awards ceremony took place at the Ritz Carlton Pentagon City Hotel in Arlington, Virginia.

Purdue University recognized Carol Armstrong on Friday, November 21, 2014 for the gift of papers valued at more than $3.4 million from her late husband, Neil A. Armstrong (BSAE'55, DEA'67, HDR'70, OAE'99), a 1955 School of Aeronautics and Astronautics graduate and the first person to step on the moon.

Purdue University's College of Engineering Minority Engineering Program (MEP) hosted 250 ninth-grade students from ITW David Speer Academy in Chicago, IL on Friday, November 21, 2104. School of Aeronautics and Astronautics professors Dr. Mike Sangid (Structures & Materials) and Dr. Sally Bane (Aerodynamics), Managing Director of Maurice J. Zucrow Lab Scott Meyer, and School of AAE graduate students shared their expertise with the Academy students.

Congratulations to School of Aeronautics and Astronautics Professor Greg Blaisdell, winner of the prestigious 2014 W.A. Gustafson Award for Outstanding Teaching.

Purdue University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics team members were awarded 1st prize for their poster entitled, "Marching Towards Troy: Exploration of the Jupiter Trojan Asteroids" in the Outstanding Student Poster Presentation at the 11th International Planetary Probe Workshop (IPPW11) held at Caltech, Pasadena, CA, June 16-20, 2014.

Michelle Munk, an aerospace engineer at NASA's Langley Research Center, will speak at Purdue on Nov. 20, 2014 about her career. The talk, "From the Beach to Mars: One Engineer's Journey," will be at 5:30 p.m. in Armstrong Hall, Room B061. It is sponsored by the Women in Engineering Program and the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics and is free and open to the public.

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics graduate student Max Fagin has been featured in a recent Popular Science article examining the volunteers for a one-way trip to Mars.