Beth Moses needed a rush order. She didn’t find out until days before she was going to fly on Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity that she’d be allowed to stow items for the trip to space. And she had to have Purdue memorabilia in the ballast case, so she emailed Tom Shih, the J. William Uhrig and Anastasia Vournas Head and Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Purdue University has been selected to participate in the inaugural First Forward cohort, a national initiative designed to improve experiences for first-generation college students.

At a time when the problem-solving approaches of “engineering thinking” are bringing new hope to K-12 education, a distinguished industrial engineer who hails from Purdue has applied his systems analysis skills to understand — and address — a challenge facing still-beleaguered elementary schools.

Purdue University-affiliated Discovery Park District Aerospace will be home to a new aerospace production facility for the U.S. Air Force T-X pilot training program and give flight for future projects.

Professor Rakesh Agrawal, Director, Center for Sustainable Food, Energy and Water Systems (SFEWS), Purdue University, and Professor Mitch Tuinstra, Co-Director, SFEWS

Rescue teams descended on the destruction left by Hurricane Michael in October, frantically searching for survivors. But a week later, more than 1,000 people were still accounted for, leaving families to wait and hope.

What will it take for the U.S. to return to the moon and send humans to Mars and beyond?

Alumnus Stan Tebbe’s latest major gifts to Purdue Engineering — supporting the first endowed 150th Anniversary Professorship and the recent Maurice J. Zucrow Laboratories expansion — bear his family’s name, but the philanthropy is not about him.

The College of Engineering recognized 72 graduate students for excellence in research, service, or teaching at its annual awards luncheon on April 23. Recipients each received a $2000 award and a certificate. Over 100 others—faculty, staff, family, friends, and other guests—attended the luncheon in the Purdue Memorial Union North Ballroom.