January 23, 2023
Cole Tuttle, a fifth-grader at Hendry Park Elementary School in Angola, builds a tower
using marshmallows and uncooked spaghetti Friday, Jan. 20, in Hershey Hall. Several
hundred area students attended the STEM Engagement Fair sponsored by the university’s
NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) team.
Photo by Dean Orewiler
When his brother returned from three years of teaching in Japan with photos and stories of that nation’s scenery, entertainment and culture, Trine University student Dominic Bumpus immediately fell in love with the country.
Assistant Professor Gurudutt Chandrashekar, Ph.D., of the Wade Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, was awarded $6,000 for Trine University’s team in the 2025 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Design/Build/Fly competition.
Max Gong, Ph.D., associate professor in the Bock Department of Biomedical Engineering, received $15,000 for his fourth INSGC-funded project.