Falcon 9 Booster Landing Team receives first Neil Armstrong Space Prize for reusable rocket research
Purdue University’s Neil Armstrong Space Prize was awarded to the SpaceX Falcon 9 Booster Landing Team, recognizing their globally impactful work on the Falcon 9 reusable two-stage rocket system.
September 16, 2026
Award-winning Purdue Engineering research targets a persistent solid-state battery problem
Aditya Singla used computer modeling to uncover how defects form at battery interfaces, with implications for safer, higher-energy density lithium and sodium batteries.
September 14, 2026
ME's Sardana, Purdue Innovates Commercialization Fellow, tackles data annotation bottlenecks
Pranshul Sardana’s technology accelerates data annotation, making it easier to prepare large, complex image and video datasets for machine‑learning models to enable higher accuracy predictions.
September 21, 2026
Fabio Ribeiro named recipient of American Chemical Society's 2027 George A. Olah Award
Hydrocarbon chemistry honor prompts reflections on research and collaborations behind CISTAR and Institute for Energy Innovation
October 2, 2026