Commercial air service has returned to the Purdue University Airport, marking the next chapter in the university’s storied tradition of aviation. At 6:20 a.m. Wednesday (May 15), the first Southern Airways Express flight departed Purdue University Airport in West Lafayette, traveling to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Southern Airways will operate flights between the two airports seven days a week, with 24 weekly round-trip flights currently planned. Related:Photo gallery of Inaugural Commercial Flight Ceremony.
Check out the latest top stories from Purdue University in this week’s “Purdue News Now,” a one-minute weekly video update. This week: Commercial flights return to Purdue, Presidential Lecture Series in Indianapolis, President Chiang on inaugural USDOE board and more.
Purdue Department of Chemistry graduate students Megan Hill and Brady Layman have been awarded prestigious national fellowships to continue their research. Hill was awarded the University Nuclear Leadership Program Fellowship funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy. Layman won two highly competitive awards — the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Both are students in professor Jeffrey Dick’s electrochemistry lab where the group specializes in making the immeasurable measurable.
Purdue researchers have teamed up with Wabash, the largest trailer manufacturer in the country, to investigate an experimental trailer that recaptures its own electricity from vibrations, heat and airflow.
Follow the latest news and notes about Purdue University in Indianapolis with our roundup, which includes information on a virtual session for faculty regarding the Breakthrough Research Awards, hosted by the John Martinson Honors College.
Two of the world’s best minds in finance will join Purdue President Mung Chiang this month for a Presidential Lecture Series fireside chat at Purdue University in Indianapolis. The invitation-only event, titled “Interest Rates, Global Finance and Midwest Prosperity,” will feature James “Jim” Bullard, appointed the inaugural Dr. Samuel R. Allen Dean of the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business in August, and David Malpass, the Distinguished Fellow of International Finance in the Daniels School and Inaugural Fellow of Global Business and Infrastructure at Purdue@DC, who joined Purdue in January.
The Dorothy Stratton Veteran and Military Success Center invites members of the community to attend its Memorial Day Observance Ceremony at 3 p.m. May 24 in Purdue Memorial Union’s Great Hall.
Four finalists for the position of associate vice provost and dean of the John Martinson Honors College will be on Purdue University’s West Lafayette campus for interviews and public presentations in May and June. The first public presentation is 9:30-10:30 a.m. today (May 17) in HCRN Room 1066, Honors Hall.
Nominations are being sought for the next Dean of Veterinary Medicine and Hospital CEO. As planned and announced to Purdue University veterinary medicine colleagues two years ago, Dean Willie Reed will step down June 30, after 17 years in his leadership role and 25 total years of service to the university.
While work progresses on several transformative capital projects on the West Lafayette campus, various travel restrictions will be in place this summer. Read more about the road, sidewalk and parking restrictions expected during the coming months.
