Purdue President, France Córdova signed an agreement with Beihang University President Huai Jinpeng to form the BUAA-Purdue Joint Laboratory on Energy Systems and the BUAA-Purdue Joint Laboratory on Low Emissions Combustion. Beihang University also is known as Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

For 30 years Purdue University has been ubiquitous with the space shuttle program.
More than a third of all shuttle flights have carried a Boilermaker.
But it's all coming to an end.

After 30 years, 135 launches and the completion of goals once only dreamed about, NASA's space shuttle program is coming to a close with no immediate replacement in sight.

Professor Terry A. Weisshaar is retiring from a 41 year career in academia and government where his career included positions at three major universities.

Congratulations to Cody Short for winning 1st place in the Research Symposium Series, along with 2nd place – David Kittell, 3rd place – Matthew Wierman, and Best Abstract – Jimmy Chiu.

After eight months of work on the Blue Ribbon, a 12 foot 6 inch diameter rocket to travel one mile in the sky, the Purdue Ballistic Rocketeers set off to NASA Marshall in Huntsville, AL for NASA's University Student Launch Initiative rocket competition.

The 15th annual AIAA Cessna/Raytheon Missile Systems Student Design/Build/Fly Competition was held this past weekend (April 15-17^th) at TIMPA field in Tucson, Arizona, hosting 82 teams from across the world.

A tradition was born amidst the roar of lawnmower engines at Purdue University on May 17, 1958. The Purdue Grand Prix was born after a dream inspired by a few enthusiastic students' late night bull session became a reality.