OmniVis, a smartphone-based lab that detects cholera, is a finalist in TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield in San Francisco. Katie Clayton (Ph.D. '17) developed OmniVis while studying under professor Steven Wereley.

Coming soon: a fully-online fully-Purdue master's degree for less than $25,000. Purdue announces its partnership with edX.

As a nation, we expend a lot of energy on our southern border. Why not get some of it back -- in the form of a border that is an energy corridor? This near 2,000-mile-long "energy park" would incorporate wind, solar and natural gas sources, in an environmentally friendly economic development zone that brings energy, water, jobs and border security to the region.

Prof. Xianfan Xu, the James J. and Carol L. Shuttleworth Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been appointed as the Russell Severance Springer Professor, a visiting professorship at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of California at Berkeley for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Ever wonder what it's like studying abroad in Valencia, Spain? Purdue ME student Anna Poznyak shared her experience as part of the Global Engineering Photo Contest.

Luciano Castillo, the Kenninger Professor of Renewable Energy and Power Systems in Mechanical Engineering, has been elected as a 2019 Fellow of the American Physical Society, recognizing his exceptional contributions to the physics enterprise in physics research, important applications of physics, leadership in or service to physics, or significant contributions to physics education. His citation is for demonstrating the importance of the initial conditions of scaling arguments in turbulent boundary layers, and for demonstrating the importance of turbulence in wind energy, and for mentoring and creating new opportunities for under-represented minorities in fluid dynamics.

By carefully manipulating material size and quality, researchers have dramatically enhanced the thermoelectric performance of graphene. This not only demonstrates the ability to separately tune electrical and thermal conductivity at an unprecedented level but also indicates that graphene is a very promising non-toxic, low-cost, light-weight, and flexible thermoelectric material for powering small-scale smart devices with heat. This research was done by Xiulin Ruan, in collaboration with Kyushu University and Tohoku University in Japan.

Hye-ran Moon is a Ph.D. candidate under Bumsoo Han, researching engineered microenvironments for cancer research and immune system based on biotransport phenomenon. Rising Stars Asia brings together young female professionals in engineering disciplines from around the world.

Congratulations to Erik Braun, who received a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG), covering three years of doctoral studies for researchers in disciplines of military importance. Erik studies laser diagnostics for combustion under Terrence Meyer at Zucrow Labs, currently focusing on Coherent anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy (CARS).

Congratulations to Veeraraghava Raju Hasti, who has received the Gordon C. Oates Air Breathing Propulsion Graduate Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Hasti studies with professor Jay Gore at Zucrow Labs.