Manuel Salmeron, a PhD student in the Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering under the supervision of professor Shirley Dyke and co-advised by professor Julio Ramírez, wants to develop a framework that will allow us to better understand infrastructure and product degradation so we can design smarter and optimize maintenance for more predictable performance and reliability.

"Obviously the investigation might reveal something else," Bill Crossley, head of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, told the Seattle Times. But, given the number of 737s flying today, he continued, "I don't think something magically changed overnight" to introduce a fleetwide concern.

Steve Son, Alfred J. McAllister Professor of Mechanical Engineering, worked with Metin Ornek, research scientist at Zucrow Labs, and a team of other researchers to create the explosive.

Anand Raghunathan, the Silicon Valley Professor in Purdue University's Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been honored with the IEEE Computer Society 2025 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award.

Among the Purdue faculty in Indianapolis is Lingxi Li, who is now a professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. We sat down with Professor Li for a brief chat.

When Oliver Juarez found out he'd been accepted to Purdue University after applying to 15 colleges through a nonprofit program, he freaked out. The 18-year-old didn't just freak out because he got in. Juarez is the first in his family to go to college. And the first from his small Texas high school to attend Purdue.

Purdue saved Marek Gibson. "I was in a rough place," he said. "If I didn't have Purdue, I don't think I would have made it through that time as well as I did."

For as long as she could remember, Alyssa Brewer wanted to go to Purdue University. Growing up in foster care near Fort Wayne, she wasn't sure that would ever be possible.

When Brenna Losch was growing up, her parents made it clear that they would not pay for college. So she knew she had to get good grades. After her parents divorced when Losch was in middle school, she made the difficult decision to live with her dad in Crown Point, Indiana, where she would have more opportunities to take advanced placement classes in high school.

In the span of four days, Sam Budagher lost everything. He lost his Reserve Officers' Training Corps scholarship. He lost his position on the wrestling team. And he lost his maternal grandmother. That could have been the end of his college years at Purdue University. And it almost was. After all, he was only in his first year.