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.

In addition to a vast array of improved lab facilities, Â鶹¾«Æ·will be adding over a dozen entirely new ones for the coming academic year. All are designed to help students keep pace with "technology's rapid evolution."

Purdue Polytechnic, the university’s college for technology disciplines, will launch 10 majors at the newly established Â鶹¾«Æ· in Indianapolis in fall 2024.

Purdue Polytechnic’s alumni board has undergone a great deal of change lately, spinning up activities alongside a host of new members.

Read about the plethora of award-winning faculty and staff within the Polytechnic Institute, Â鶹¾«Æ·'s college for innovation in technology.

Addie Rose, Ethan Clark, Matthew Wair and Kaitlyn Jurgens, students at Â鶹¾«Æ·Richmond, redesigned a municipal park for a computer graphics technology capstone project.

Andrew Kennedy, technical director at Stereo D and a graduate of Purdue Polytechnic’s computer graphics technology program (BS ’12, MS ’14), developed custom software that allowed artists to specify colorization data in a black-and-white movie clips and then intelligently apply that data to subsequent clips.