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Single 'Solitons' Promising for Optical Technologies
Researchers are a step closer to harnessing single pulses of light called solitons, using tiny ring-shaped microresonators, in findings that could aid efforts to develop advanced sensors, high-speed optical communications and research tools.

The last 10 years have witnessed an unprecedented revolution in the domestic supply of shale hydrocarbon reserves with the potential to lower the cost of our nation’s electricity, power, chemicals and fuels for the next 100 years.

Elijah Sindelar is focused on power systems in his engineering studies and on the football field.

Forbes magazine’s list spotlights “the impressive, the inspiring and the (genuinely) enviable.” It includes “600 young stars in 20 different industries.” This is the seventh year that Forbes has published the list.

Purdue Mechanical Engineering alumnus builds business around family, strong work ethic and philanthropy.

Three Purdue University faculty members in the College of Engineering won 2017 Faculty Early Career Development awards from the National Science Foundation, one of the most prestigious NSF honors for outstanding young researchers.

On Sept. 22, 2017, the first new building at Zucrow Laboratories in over four decades — the High Pressure Combustion Laboratory — was opened. ZL8, as it is known, is the only facility of its kind in the world.