The new Bechtel Innovation Design Center is aimed to become a ‘magnet’ where Purdue University students, staff and faculty can move their ideas and innovations to real-world products and impact.

Surya Mallapragada (PhD’97) and Antonios Mikos (MS’86, PhD’88) have been elected as Fellows in the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE).

The Purdue University Teaching Academy recognized three College of Engineering faculty members for outstanding teaching in graduate, undergraduate or engagement programs in ceremonies on Sept. 27.

PhD student Yining Feng has been selected to attend the Polsky Center Women in STEM Leadership Conference at the University of Chicago on October 27th.

Purdue University was recently selected to receive one of three $1,000 scholarships from the Indiana Partners for Pollution Prevention (Partners) to award to a student of their choosing.

A group of 25 young African leaders learned about how to use social entrepreneurship to try to solve challenges their nations face during a six-week intensive executive-style leadership training program at Purdue University and Purdue Foundry.

Purdue University engineers believe they also can play a role in tackling Tippecanoe County's heroin epidemic, finding solutions to one of the biggest challenges currently facing Indiana.

Purdue University is known for having many "firsts". From the first man on the moon to the first and only nuclear reactor operating in Indiana. Purdue's Reactor Number One (PUR-1), first installed in 1962, is still just as important and useful now as it was back then, but will now become more innovative.

In August this year, a License Amendment Request to upgrade PUR-1's instrumentation and controls to be fully digitized was been accepted by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

PhD student Jessica Eisma has completed a one-year project studying sand dams in Tanzania. In 2016, Eisma was awarded a pair of prestigious research grants — totaling more than $45,000 — from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program and the U.S. Borlaug Fellows in Global Food Security Program to study the ecological impact of sand dams in Tanzania. She flew to Africa in August 2016 to begin her study, which is the basis for her doctoral thesis.