Boilermakers have been integral to the Indianapolis 500 for more than 100 years — whether it’s engineers ensuring optimal vehicle performance, the “All-American” Marching Band playing “Back Home Again in Indiana,” dairy farmers presenting the celebratory milk or students representing the university as IndyCar interns. Throughout the month of May, Purdue will be sharing stories of Boilermaker impact at this historic race on social media, the Persistent Pursuit website,
“This Is Purdue” podcast and Purdue Today. Start your engines and discover how Boilermakers continue to shape the Indianapolis 500.
A robot traveling at 2 millimeters per second doesn't sound particularly fast. But when that robot is the width of a human hair, it becomes record-breaking. Purdue researchers created the speedy swimming robots using microscale 3D printing, enabling multimaterial microrobots to be fabricated with hydrogel tails that adapt to their environment.
Technology by Purdue engineer Pavlos Vlachos has changed how cardiologists plan for life-saving surgeries on babies with congenital heart defects. That work, along with much of his current and past research, has earned Vlachos election as a fellow to an organization with very few engineers – the American Heart Association. Vlachos is the St. Vincent Health Professor of Healthcare Engineering and director of the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering.
Rita Baker, the coordinating academic advisor for the Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation program, is the 2023 winner of the Sandra K. Monroe Excellence in Student Services Award. Baker, who joined the Purdue staff in 1980, is being honored for her dedication, integrity, leadership and commitment to individualized guidance and care for each student she advises.
Keynote speaker Mohamed Abdel-Kader (second from right) addresses the audience Tuesday (May 2) at the USAID LASER PULSE Research for Development Learning Summit at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Abdel-Kader is chief innovation officer and executive director of the Innovation, Technology, and Research Hub of the U.S. Agency for International Development. With him (from left) are Purdue’s John Glover, executive director of Global Development and Innovation in the Purdue Applied Research Institute; Yuehwern Yih, academic director of LASER PULSE; and Pallavi Gupta, LASER PULSE program director.
For Sang Eun Woo, leading the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership and Excellence is not just the opportunity of a lifetime but a role she feels destined to take on. Woo stepped into the role on Jan. 3 and plans to use her expertise in industrial-organizational psychology concepts like openness and humility to foster new relationships with campus units and create a universitywide culture of collective excellence.