AAE Ph.D. student Michael Baier is part of a group investigating a safer and less toxic hypergolic propellant, studying its explosive reaction with a new technique involving both visible and infrared high-speed cameras.

"We're a company of about 600 people. To look at a school that's 2,000 miles away and realize we have 10 employees from that school, that doesn't really happen by accident. It says something about the school."

Brandon Terry (PhD AAE '14) is founder and chief technology officer at Adranos, Inc., which announced plans Feb. 3 to construct a facility in the Purdue Research Park of West Lafayette to manufacture ALITEC in support of various launch systems, including hypersonic systems.

Junior Maor Gozalzani was one of 30 students selected nationwide for the fellowship.

Stephen Heister has been one of the most impactful faculty members on the transformation of Maurice J. Zucrow Labs. But that may not be his lasting legacy.

Robert Bayt, Adam Butt and David Forrest received awards.

AAE senior Zachary Marshall is among three recipients of the Astronaut Scholarship, which will be presented by Covey on Feb. 23.

Wenjie Cai and Noah Marquand received the most votes in their respective course levels from Fall 2020.

Professors Karen Marais and Dengfeng Sun will help develop a theory and concept of operations that could be used by the Advanced Air Mobility community as part of four-year, $8-million NASA ULI grant, led by UT Austin.

Twelve faculty, lecturers and staff were recognized for teaching evaluation scores of at least 4.6.