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From President Chiang’s trip to Costa Rica to the Boilermakers motoring back to the Sweet 16, Trevor Peters has you covered with all the big news from a busy week at Purdue University.

Plus, check out five good stories below you may have missed. 

Building the first highway segment in the U.S. that can charge electric vehicles big and small as they drive

At the “Crossroads of America,” Purdue University engineers and the Indiana Department of Transportation are working to make it possible for electric vehicles ranging from tractor-trailers to passenger cars to wirelessly charge while driving on highways. Construction begins as soon as April 1 on a quarter-mile test bed on U.S. Highway 231/U.S. Highway 52 in West Lafayette that the team will use for testing how well a patent-pending system designed by Purdue engineers can provide power to a heavy-duty electric truck traveling at highway speeds.

Media contact: Kayla Albert, wiles5@purdue.edu

Purdue President Mung Chiang joins Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on trip to Costa Rica to advance semiconductor partnerships

Purdue University President Mung Chiang joined Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, senior staffers from the Department of Commerce, and the leadership and members of the Semiconductor Industry Association on a trip to Costa Rica to advance semiconductor partnerships to help bolster the global semiconductor ecosystem and build supply chain sustainability and resilience. Like many other nations, Costa Rica is launching its own national initiative in the semiconductor space. The visit was marked by Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves unveiling his nation’s semiconductor industry road map at an event held in San Jose March 21.

Media contact: Wes Mills, wemills@purdue.edu

Working on work: How making sense of life’s messiness can lead to happiness at work and home

Allison Gabriel, the Thomas J. Howatt Chair in Management in the organizational behavior and human resources area of Purdue’s Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business and faculty director of the new Center for Working Well, researches work-related stress, interactions with co-workers, how employees detach from work and how those same workers — especially new mothers — transition back to their professional roles after major changes in their personal lives.

Media contact: Derek Schultz, dcschultz@purdue.edu

Purdue researchers create biocompatible nanoparticles to enhance systemic delivery of cancer immunotherapy

Purdue University researchers are developing and validating patent-pending poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid), or PLGA, nanoparticles modified with adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, to enhance immunotherapy effects against malignant tumors. The nanoparticles slowly release drugs that induce immunogenic cell death, or ICD, in tumors. ICD generates tumor antigens and other molecules to bring immune cells to a tumor’s microenvironment. The researchers have attached ATP to the nanoparticles, which also recruits immune cells to the tumor to initiate anti-tumor immune responses. 

Media contact: Steve Martin, sgmartin@prf.org

Motorsports engineering student driven by passion for racing

Reed England is accelerating his career at Purdue University in Indianapolis through one-of-a-kind experiences. Just a junior in the Purdue motorsports engineering program in Indianapolis, England is a data acquisitions engineer for the three JTR Motorsports Engineering Porsche 911 992 GT3 Cup cars running in the Porsche Sprint Challenge North America and two Ligier JS P3 LMP3 cars running in the IMSA VP Racing Sportscar Challenge. 

Media contact: Derek Schultz, dcschultz@purdue.edu 

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