Aerospace engineering students at Purdue University are teaming with local second-graders to find out if fireflies can light up in space.
The collaborative experiment emerged from a question about fireflies brought up in Maggie Samudio's second-grade class at Cumberland Grade School in West Lafayette. She emailed the question to Steven Collicott, professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Purdue's School of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Purdue University has created a new lyophilization consortium, LyoHUB, to improve freeze-drying technology to make food, pharmaceuticals and biotech products safer and more affordable.

AAE PhD Candidate, Anthony Cofer, with Co-Pi's, Professors Alina Alexeenko and Stephen Heister's project was selected to collaborate with NASA's Small Spacecraft Technology Program within the Space Technology Mission Directorate.

AAE Professor of Practice, Daniel Dumbacher Receives Alumni of Achievement Award, the highest honor bestowed by the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Alumni Association.

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics Professor Emeritus Terrence Weisshaar has received the 2014 NATO Science and Technology Scientific Achievement Award for his contribution to AVT-174 on Qualification and Structural Design Guidelines for Military UAVs.

AAE Zucrow Alumni swept the AIAA Liquid Propulsion Technical Committee Awards this year at the 51^st AIAA/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference.

Diwakar Naragani has been awarded the best poster prize at the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on the Frontiers in Physical Metallurgy. The conference was held July 19-24, 2015 at the University of New England. One of the cornerstones of the GRC is fostering advancement within the younger generation of scientists and engineers, which culminates in the student poster presentations.

Leah Jamieson, Purdue University’s John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering, will travel to the White House on Thursday (July 9, 2015) for a roundtable discussion on ways to increase the involvement of women and girls, as well as other underrepresented groups, in STEM fields of study.

School of AAE Professor Daniel Dumbacher, former NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, and Dr. Michael Griffin, former NASA Administrator (2005-2009) under President George W. Bush, discussed the "powerful new launcher," the Space Launch System (SLS) in a recent guest column.

School of AAE Alumna Jane Kinney (BSAAE'11) was named as the new Assistant Director by Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF) on June 25, 2015. Kinney's appointment follows the departure earlier this month of AAE alumna Sirisha Bandla (BSAAE'11) who left CSF for a new position in the commercial space industry.