Many college students have a job on the side — but Drew Szuch’s job comes with trophies! As a full-time racing driver, Szuch clinched the 2025 co-championship in the Ligier Junior Formula Championship — all while taking classes from Purdue University in Indianapolis.

This episode features Vladimir Shalaev on the occasion of his recent election to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering. Shalaev specializes in metamaterials, materials that are designed and engineered with properties that cannot be otherwise obtained from materials in nature.

Researchers with Purdue University and INDOT have successfully charged an electric heavy-duty truck at highway speeds.

Purdue University engineers and their collaborators will leverage the revolutionary power of artificial intelligence by launching the Center for AI and Robotic Excellence in Medicine (CARE) in Indianapolis.

University ranks No. 3 among public institutions, No. 6 overall for 2025 in key undergrad category tracked by U.S. News & World Report

Shubh Mehta, a second-year PhD student in Professor Craig Goergen's laboratory in Purdue University's Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, has been awarded the 2026 American Heart Association (AHA) Predoctoral Fellowship. The highly competitive award supports promising predoctoral researchers pursuing careers aimed at advancing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health.

Purdue University has the No. 1 mechanical engineering program in the country over the last five years, according to the scholarly analytics platform ScholarGPS.

In fall 2024, Pranav Ramnath's EPICS team had a gap in its schedule. And Jennifer Layton had a need. Over the next year, the EPICS team would work with Lafayette Transitional Housing Center to create Tippecanoe County Connect, an app designed to keep individuals experiencing poverty and homelessness connected to local resources.

Thanks to an eight-figure cash gift, Purdue Engineering launched a prestigious certificate program last year designed to equip undergraduate engineering students with essential business knowledge.

When you walk into a familiar place- your kitchen, a classroom, or your neighborhood- your brain instantly starts matching what you see with memories of past experiences. A new study from Purdue University reveals a key piece of how that recognition process works, and why it may be disrupted in conditions such as Fragile X syndrome, a leading inherited cause of autism.