Take it from those who know: Rocket science doesn’t mean either building rockets or being an astronaut. It doesn’t mean being born wearing thick glasses and holding a calculator. And it certainly doesn’t mean something impossible to understand.

Real-life rocket scientists specialize in the different elements of sending a spacecraft into space from its path to its fuel to fixing the problems it might have. Then these experts work together to make space flight happen.

The Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowships were established in 1938 in honor of Amelia Earhart, famed pilot and Zonta club member. The Fellowships are granted annually to women pursuing graduate Ph.D./doctoral degrees in aerospace-related sciences and aerospace-related engineering.

The Purdue Board of Trustees on Thursday (June 21) unanimously selected Indiana Gov. Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. to be the university's next president.

Daniels will start in January at the conclusion of his second term as governor. He will be Purdue's 12th president, succeeding France A. Córdova, who will step down July 15.

Venkat Ayyaswamy has been awarded the Ph.D. Dissertation Award and is now the AAE nominee for the Chorafas Foundation Award.

An interactive sculpture of the planetary system, about a football field in length, will crown a new mall at the south end of Purdue's Discovery Park.
Purdue students in a service-learning class designed the sculpture -Visiting Our Solar System, VOSS - and named it in honor of the late Janice Voss, a Purdue alumna who flew on five shuttle missions

America's Space Gene: Where Do We Go and How Do We Get There? Prof. Bill Anderson was a panel member at Purdue LIVE at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago on Wednesday, May 2

Lt. Col. Reid Vander Schaaf (US Army), Program Manager Enhanced C2BMC, visited Purdue on 1 May 2012. He came to meet with students and faculty involved on a project funded by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA)

This prestigious award is given by AIAA every four years for excellence in aerospace materials, structural design, structural analysis, or structural dynamics. The citation reads "For pioneering developments in damage tolerant design in composite structural mechanics and for seminal contributions to academic programs in composite structures and materials."

Congratulations to Mar Vaquero for winning 1st place in the Research Symposium Series, along with 2nd place – Steven Shark, 3rd place – Loic Chappaz, and Best Abstract – Lucie Poulet

A check for undergraduate and graduate scholarships was presented on behalf of Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne, Inc. by Dr. Munir M. Sindir, Director of Engineering Technical Disciplines and a member of the Steering Advisory Committee (SAC) to Dr. Tom Shih, professor and head of School of Aeronautics and Astronautics.