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Flight students improve standings, crack top 10 once more in 2024 Air Race Classic
Some incredible female pilots have gathered for the 2024 Air Race Classic, including a Purdue team composed of Reyna Dodd and returning competitor Morgan Mallow. Here's to cheering them on to another top ten finish for the second year in a row:
Faculty win FAA grant to provide high-tech learn-by-doing programs for aviation educators
Purdue Polytechnic is extending the learn-by-doing approach even further into the classroom, thanks to a new grant from the Federal Aviation Administration. Read more:
Truman Scholarship awards Polytechnic student for outstanding public service, leadership potential
Congratulations to Allison Boyd, an aeronautical engineering technology student who just became a 2024 Truman Scholar. Boyd joins a list of worldwide leaders who have been recipients, including Supreme Court justices, policy experts and public service heroes.
Technology Alumni Awards celebrate Polytechnic prestige, renewed alumni board, future goals
Twelve #PurduePolytechnic alumni received awards celebrating their noteworthy contributions to Purdue, their industries, and the world of technology as a whole.
Gao creates tools to determine how customers decide their preferred airport
Yi Gao has dug into the details of airport "catchment areas," or the distances from the facility where customers will choose one airport even if another is available to them.
'Persistent Pursuit' features Brittany Gallarneau, Boilermaker in flight
The Persistent Pursuit reported on #PurduePolytechnic alumna Brittany Gallarneau. “I decided I wanted to fly when I was about 17,” she says. “My dad was my first flight instructor; he taught me while I earned my private pilot’s license.”
Polytechnic co-founded company creates new search-and-rescue drone for first responders
Uniform Sierra Aerospace, a drone manufacturer co-founded with Polytechnic alumni, has created the new Panther drone model, made in United States and designed for “first responders [in] search-and-rescue cases in outdoor settings.”
AWARDS UPDATE: Polytechnic students, faculty bring tech expertise to dozens of research projects at university-wide Expo
Purdue University's Undergraduate Research Expo for fall 2023 highlighted substantial efforts in Purdue Polytechnic, with participation from 31 undergraduate students and 24 faculty and graduate mentors.
Six Purdue Polytechnic faculty win Seed for Success, high dollar-value research award
On November 1, Purdue honored Polytechnic professors Jin Wei-Kocsis, Nathan Mentzer, Alejandra Magana, Vetria Byrd, Joseph Hupy and Baijian “Justin” Yang with Seed for Success Acorn Awards. The award recognizes Purdue researchers who have obtained their first grant of $1 million or more in funding.