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Incoming transmission for Indiana 5th graders! Purdue 1 crew member and Purdue alum Flo Stahura has a message for Hoosier students who are ready to think big about space. There's still time to enter the Purdue 1 Indiana Essay Competition! Due Nov. 30:

Congratulations to Prof. Tongcang Li of @PurduePhysAstro and @PurdueECE for being elected a 2027 Optica Fellow! Learn more: #boilerup

Paws what you’re doing — check out our photo gallery from @PurdueScience Deans and Dogs! 🐾 More than 260 Purdue families, students and science enthusiasts joined us for an afternoon of furry friends, tailgate fun and robotic dogs.

Explore the quantum world at the @PurduePhysAstro Quantum Open House! 📅 Oct. 24 🕐 1-4:30 p.m. 📍 Physics Building Register here: Hands-on demos, lab tours, quantum computing, superconducting levitation and more. #PurdueQuantum #BoilerUp #Physics

✈️ 🌎 Purdue scientists are helping NASA study our changing planet! EAPS professor and department head Andrea Donnellan is helping lead NASA's ASCENT airborne campaign, testing technologies for future Earth-observing missions. 🔗 #PurdueScience #NASA

Purdue University is deepening its academic ties with Japan through a new letter of intent signed with Tohoku University, building on three decades of collaboration. Read more:

At @LifeAtPurdue, researchers are using ultrafast microscopy to capture the interaction between light and matter. Libai Huang, @PurdueChemistry, is able to see quantum particles moving through materials at a rate of up to 1 quadrillion images per second.

Purdue invites Hoosier 5th graders to explore how they could use a school subject, hobby or skill to help a space mission crew. A winning essay will be chosen from each of IN's counties, & every county winner gets a personalized Purdue 1 IN mission patch.

Explore the quantum world at the @PurduePhysAstro Quantum Open House! 📅 Oct. 24 🕐 1-4:30 p.m. 📍 Physics Building Register here: Hands-on demos, lab tours, quantum computing, superconducting levitation and more. #PurdueQuantum #BoilerUp #Physics

Brain cancer margins can be especially difficult to map. Using mass spectrometry, researchers from Purdue University and the Mayo Clinic can map margins in resected tissue in a three-minute measurement. 🔗 (Photo by Charles Jischke/Purdue University)

The latest issue of Interactions from Purdue Physics and Astronomy is here. ⚛️🔭 Explore the research, discoveries and people behind the science. Read more: #PurdueScience #Physics #Astronomy

Concealed in the molecular machinery of flowers are processes that biotechnologists can engineer to improve crops & plant health. Purdue scientists, including Jing Liu of @PurduePhysAstro, have launched a project to bring these advances closer to fruition.

Congratulations to Roger Wiens, of @PurdueEAPS, for being named a 2026 American Geophysical Union Union Fellow! #boilerup

Congratulations to Matthew Huber, of @PurdueEAPS, for being named a 2026 American Geophysical Union Union Fellow! #boilerup

Congratulations to Dan Chavas, of @PurdueEAPS, for being awarded a 2026 American Geophysical Union Ascent Award! #boilerup

This weekend, Purdue welcomed the math community to the 2026 SIAM Great Lakes Section Annual Meeting. GLSIAM 2026 brought researchers together to share ideas and explore advances spanning differential equations, computation, data science, & much more.

Purdue Computer Science continues to rise in the rankings. Our undergraduate computer science program is now ranked No. 14 nationally by U.S. News & World Report, up from No. 16 last year. Read more about our latest rankings:

Purdue University is deepening its academic ties with Japan through a new letter of intent signed with Tohoku University, building on three decades of collaboration. Read more:

Congrats to the 15 @LifeAtPurdue faculty earning @NSF CAREER Awards! 8 @PurdueScience faculty are: @PurdueCS: Ben Delaware, Rajiv Khanna, Ahmed Qureshi, Raymond Yeh, Yongle Zhang @PurdueEAPS: Michael Eddy, Xiaotao Yang @PurduePhysAstro: Jukka Vayrynen

The SMART Center is now open for @LifeAtPurdue students in Indy! Get free, drop-in tutoring for @PurdueScience courses in math, stats, physics, chemistry, and computer science 📍 ET003, lower level of the Eng. Tech Building 🗓️ Sunday–Friday Learn more: