Professor Volkan Ortalan was one of 2 faculty at Purdue, and 47 in the nation, to win a Young Investigator award.

Eric Nauman, professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Engineering Honors Program, and HIRRT, the Human Injury Research & Regenerative Technologies Labat Purdue, has been quoted recently in articles in Time magazine and ESPNW online, on his lab’s research showing the need for hit counts in football and the strong similarity between the damaging force of football hits to the brain and hits taken by soccer players who head the ball.

At a ceremony Friday, Oct. 18, 2013, in the Kurz Atrium of Armstrong Hall, representatives of Boeing Corp. joined Leah Jamieson, the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering, in unveiling a replica of the X-20 Dyna-Soar space vehicle — a forerunner to the space shuttle.

In the just-released US News & World Report national rankings of undergraduate programs, Purdue ranks 8^th among engineering programs at doctoral-granting universities. The new ranking, up from 9^th last year, ties Purdue's undergraduate engineering programs with those at Carnegie-Mellon and Cornell. Last year, Purdue was tied with Cornell and the University of Texas at Austin.

Danielle Carpenter and Matt Wolf from agricultural and biological engineering, and Rush L. (Lloyd) Bartlett II from biomedical engineering are among the student inventors profiled in "Five students who invent."