New Purdue institute researching what living environments require on other planets. The Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitats Institute is working to ensure that the first long-term settlement on other planetary bodies are safe from hazards such as a meteoroid colliding with the moon or violent sandstorms on Mars.

Robert J. Frosch, senior associate dean of facilities and operations and professor of civil engineering, has been named an ACE Fellow for academic year 2019-20 by the American Council on Education (ACE).

Wise advice from a Purdue electrical engineering professor nearly 60 years ago inspired Charles Richards to embark on an unusual path that now has come full circle.

Internet pioneer and Google leader Vint Cerf spoke at Purdue’s College of Engineering recently on the topic of “What IF Machines Thought Like Humans.” Cerf, who is internationally regarded as the Father of the Internet, spoke about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and told those in attendance that computer scientists need to be more responsible in designing AI systems as the systems become more ubiquitous in our lives.

A video on social media shows a high-ranking U.S. legislator declaring his support for an overwhelming tax increase. You react accordingly because the video looks like him and sounds like him, so certainly it has be him.

Tamara Kinzer-Ursem and Jacqueline Linnes were named Marta E. Gross Assistant Professors of Biomedical Engineering through the Purdue College of Engineering's Rising Star program. The Rising Star Program recognizes assistant and associate professors for their exceptional accomplishments and leadership in research, teaching, and engagement.

Research continues on an eventual 140-million-mile mission to Mars, developing the latest transportation as well as habitats necessary for the red planet.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently warned that various medical devices made by the company Medtronic, such as implanted cardiac defibrillators, are vulnerable to cyberattack. This is because a hacker could easily gain wireless access to the equipment’s settings and change them.