Alinda Aligawesa, Kaela Martin, and Payuna Uday were selected to attend The NextProf workshop at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Congratulations to Prof. Haifeng Wang who has been awarded a Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) Grant from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Petroleum Research Fund.

Congratulations to Kurt Aikens (Prof. Blaisdell), Jacob Dennis (Prof. Pourpoint & Prof. Steven Son) Christopher Fugger (Prof. Anderson), and Nicholas Husen (Prof. Sullivan), who have been named as the 2013 recipients for The Purdue Forever Fellowship.

A team from the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics has won the U.S. Department of Justice's first public competition challenge with its proposed concept for testing the viability of in-service body armor. The team was led by Prof. Wayne Chen and included Ben Claus, Matt Hudspeth and Niranjan Parab

You are invited to attend the reception for the Graduating Class of 2013. Please RSVP by December 9th - details below

Purdue Research Foundation hosted its ninth annual inventors Recognition Reception on November 20, 2013 to recognize 54 Purdue faculty and staff whose discoveries were patented during the 2012-2013 fiscal year

Doctoral student Ming Gan won Second place in Best Poster award competition sponsored by NSF at ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition held in San Diego.

Congratulations to Professor Jim Longuski on publishing his latest book, entitled "Optimal Control with Aerospace Applications."

National Geographic published an interview with Prof. James Longuski and Doctoral Candidate Frank Laipert on November 18, 2013. This interview was noticed and made the rounds of the National Academies Committee on Human Space Flight, of which Purdue president is co-chair. President Daniels followed up with a letter of congratulations to Prof. Longuski.

Congratulations to Prof. Wenbin Yu who has been awarded ASME Fellow at the ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition