Falcon 9 Booster Landing Team receives first Neil Armstrong Space Prize for reusable rocket research

Purdue University’s Neil Armstrong Space Prize was awarded to the SpaceX Falcon 9 Booster Landing Team, recognizing their globally impactful work on the Falcon 9 reusable two-stage rocket system.

September 16, 2026

ME's Sardana, Purdue Innovates Commercialization Fellow, tackles data annotation bottlenecks

Pranshul Sardana’s technology accelerates data annotation, making it easier to prepare large, complex image and video datasets for machine‑learning models to enable higher accuracy predictions.

September 21, 2026

Fabio Ribeiro named recipient of American Chemical Society's 2027 George A. Olah Award

Hydrocarbon chemistry honor prompts reflections on research and collaborations behind CISTAR and Institute for Energy Innovation

October 2, 2026

Purdue-led biotech accelerator selected for SBA funding

Over a two-year period, the B-PRIME Accelerator will help small manufacturers meet the technical, regulatory and production requirements of the pharmaceutical industry

October 7, 2026

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Three Purdue Engineering faculty named to 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list

MSE's Strachan leads new Purdue initiative to accelerate discoveries driven by artificial intelligence

Four Purdue Engineering faculty receive prestigious 2026 IEEE fellow designation

Two Purdue Engineering professors elected to National Academy of Inventors

In the news: Purdue INSPIRE Research Institute for Pre-College Engineering shares STEM gift guide

ECE's Michael Zoltowski earns prestigious IEEE Life Fellow distinction

In the news: Purdue Engineers find gas stoves produce 100 times more dangerous particles than car exhaust

December Edition: Newly Issued Patents

3D-printed tumbling microrobots by ME, BME researchers successfully deliver targeted medication in vivo

$7.5 million grant to probe innermost circuits of the brain, the building blocks of cognition

Purdue engineers lay groundwork for highways that recharge electric vehicles

Innovation by BME's Y. Kim to be evaluated in international study for earlier ID of preeclampsia risk