News - Ray W. Herrick Laboratories - Purdue University

Several Herrick Labs researchers were honored at NoiseCon 2019, the annual meeting of the Institute of Noise Control Engineers (INCE-USA).

Congratulations to Jillian Joffe, recipient of the Women in Defense Horizons Scholarship. A graduate student under professor Jeff Rhoads, Jillian is the 3rd Purdue woman to win the scholarship in two years.

Shirley Dyke's RETH Institute (Resilient Extra-Terrestrial Habitats) will play a huge role in Purdue's new Cislunar Initiative, establishing Purdue's prominence in the new lunar economy. Dyke plans to build a quarter-scale lunar habitat at Herrick Labs.

Andres Arrieta creates robots that are inspired by nature: origami that folds like an insect wing. Drones that sense their surroundings like a spider. Listen to him describe his journey on this podcast.

Salvador Rojas worked his way up from being a janitor in California, to being a summer intern in engineering, to now being a Ph.D. candidate at Purdue's Programmable Structures Lab, under Prof. Andres Arrieta. Salvador wrote about his experience for the Los Angeles Times.

We are pleased to announce that Eckhard Groll will become the new head of the School of Mechanical Engineering. He will take over for Anil Bajaj on July 1.

"Spidey Sense" is real! It's called "mechanosensing," and animals have it naturally. Now Andres Arrieta is giving the same capability to autonomous vehicles.

Squishy micro-robots are on the move! Prof. David Cappelleri's latest soft-bodied mobile microbots have made the cover of the journal Micromachines

Professor Brandon Boor receives NSF CAREER Award for Indoor Air Quality Research

The Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitats Institute, headed by Shirley Dyke, recently received $15 million from NASA to research how to keep long-term settlements on other planets safe from hazards such as meteoroids, sandstorms, and radiation. The RETH team plans to build a simulated habitat at Herrick Labs.