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Purdue MANRRS: building national champions

As a high school student in New Jersey, Christine Charles had one of those inspirational teachers, a real “Ms. Frizzle,” she says, referencing the madcap science-loving character from the Magic School Bus series. When the teacher...

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Purdue digital forestry students win first prize in 2024 Annual GeoChallenge

A team of digital forestry graduate students from Purdue University won first prize in the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing’s (ASPRS) 2024 Annual GeoChallenge: Innovate with Lidar contest. The award, which included a cash prize of $900, was announced this week at the 2025 ASPRS Annual Conference in Denver.

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Vidya Nagaraju and Kingsly Ambrose measure the size and shape distribution of particles
Particle science innovations focus on improving grain facility safety

Frequent explosions plagued the U.S. grain industry until the Occupational Safety and Health Administration introduced new grain-handling standards in 1988. The number of explosions soon dropped. Still, grain handling and processing facilities in the U.S. have experienced a 10-year average of 8.4 incidents annually, said Kingsly Ambrose, professor of agricultural and biological engineering. During the last decade these incidents have led to dozens of injuries and fatalities, millions of dollars in damage, and operational downtime.

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Purdue University’s Uris Baldos, research associate professor of agricultural economics, leads a new study assessing the impacts of agricultural research investments on biodiversity and land use. (Purdue Agricultural Communications photo/Joshua Clark)
New study assesses impact of agricultural research investments on biodiversity, land use

New groundbreaking research shows how, at a local scale, agricultural research and development led to improved crop varieties that resulted in global benefits to the environment and food system sustainability. The Purdue University study appears in the latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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