Highlights from Purdue
'It changed my life': Program helping
low-income Indiana students succeed
Growing up, Eryn Sale experienced firsthand how mental illness can affect a family. Sale knew early on she wanted to channel those experiences into something that would help others by studying the root causes of mental illnesses, and what can be done to treat them. What she didn't know was how she was going to make that happen. That's where Purdue Promise came in, a four-year program at Purdue offering additional financial assistance and one-on-one coaching for eligible Indiana's 21st Century Scholars. More ...
Saab’s global defense and security company lands in Indiana, to open site near Purdue
Global defense and security company Saab announced plans May 8 to locate a new U.S. manufacturing operation in Indiana. The facility, located at Discovery Park District Aerospace on the west side of the Purdue University campus, will support production of the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation T-X jet trainer and create up to 300 new jobs, with hiring starting in 2020. Announcement photo gallery | Full story
Daniels named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
President Mitch Daniels has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. The new class of more than 200 members recognizes achievements of individuals in academia, the arts, business, government and public affairs. More ...
Underpass overhaul to create gateway to aerospace growth, innovation and up to 3,500 jobs
An underpass long identified as too narrow, too low and too dangerous will receive a $12.5 million overhaul to support an anticipated strong upswing in vehicle traffic along a major artery to the aerospace section of Discovery Park District. The $1 billion district, situated along the west side of the Purdue campus in West Lafayette, is expected to drive economic development, including up to 3,500 jobs. More ...
Apartments, commercial real estate next phase for Purdue's Discovery Park District development
Officials of Browning Investments LLC and J.C. Hart Co. Inc. announced April 30 a joint venture to develop about 250 luxury apartments and 15,000 square feet of street-level commercial space in Discovery Park District, a 400-acre $1 billion-plus development that will transform the west side of the Purdue campus. More ...
Graduates take center stage in Elliott Hall during Purdue commencement ceremonies
Purdue on May 10 began its annual rite of spring: a series of six commencement ceremonies throughout the weekend. More than 4,600 undergraduates were expected to walk the West Lafayette campus’ Elliott Hall of Music stage. Purdue President Mitch Daniels was the keynote for each of the six ceremonies. His speech is available here. Commencement photo gallery | Full story
Purdue Day of Giving leaps to $41.6 million, reaches six-year total of $146.9 million
In its sixth year, Purdue Day of Giving raised $41.6 million, set the fifth straight record for a 24-hour higher education fundraising campaign and reached a cumulative total of $146.9 million in gifts for Purdue. Under the mantle "150 Years of Giant Leaps," the University's sesquicentennial theme, the social media-based event on April 24 outstripped last year's record-setting performance of $37.6 million, 18,663 gifts and 58 participating countries. More ...
'Transformative' microscope to be installed at Purdue
The cryo-electron microscope is a modern marvel of a machine that allows scientists to look at how proteins and viruses are built atom by atom. And it's so important to the science that the original developers of this technique received the 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work. It's also important enough to research that six major life science entities, including Purdue, have pooled their resources together to purchase the latest version of the nearly $9 million machine. More ...
Two new books mark Purdue's 150th celebration
Purdue's people and highlights have been immortalized in two new books released for the University's sesquicentennial celebration. "Ever True: 150 Years of Giant Leaps at Purdue University" chronicles the stories of the faculty, students, alumni and leaders who have played a role in the last 150 years, and "Purdue at 150: A Visual History of Student Life" tells Purdue's story through decades of student papers, scrapbooks, yearbooks, letters, newspapers, historical photographs and memorabilia.
Purdue professor elected to prestigious National Academy of Sciences
A Purdue physics and astronomy professor has been named to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors given to a scientist in the United States. Chris H. Greene, Purdue's Albert Overhauser Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, was one of 100 new members to the academy. More ...
Purdue Polytechnic High School Indianapolis robotics team proving school's prowess in STEM
Some of the key mottos for Purdue Polytechnic High School Indianapolis are "learn through STEM and design thinking immersion," "personalized learning," and "learn by doing." They are concepts that seem to be sticking for the charter school, which just opened its doors in 2017. After a strong showing in district and state competitions, SuPURDUEper, Purdue Polytechnic High School's FIRST Robotics team, finished 10th out of 68 teams in its division at the national tournament April 24-27. More ...
Mild equine asthma can distinguish winners from losers on the racetrack
From chariot racing in ancient Rome to the modern Kentucky Derby, horse racing has been celebrated in some form for more than a thousand years. Whether the horses' hooves were pounding around in a dirt-filled coliseum or a racetrack surrounded by spectators in wide-brimmed hats, they probably had one thing in common: asthma. More ...
Hungry veterans need help. Here's how communities can provide it.
Nearly one in four U.S. veterans faces hunger. These are the people who have served overseas, responded to disaster areas and sworn to protect their country. A recent study by Purdue's Military Family Research Institute at 10 faith-based food pantries in Indiana and Kentucky – five pantries in each state – suggests there is promise for underserved veterans and their families. More ...
How to feed the world and preserve the environment
Farmers bear much of the burden for growing the food to feed billions of people as the world's population continually trends upward. But to do so, those farmers have to keep crops healthy and high-yielding. That necessitates using fertilizers and pesticides, which help crops but can have an inadvertent, negative impact on the environment. On one hand, feed the world. On the other, preserve the environment. Sylvie Brouder, professor in the Department of Agronomy, knows it's possible to do both. More ...
'Lock-'n'-block' drug may prevent cancer from metastasizing
"They got all of it" are the reassuring words people hope to hear following cancer surgery, but a growing understanding of the science of how cancer spreads, and metastasizes, is suggesting that not only is this almost never true but — and here is the surprising part — it might be better to try to contain the cancer than to eliminate it. More ...
New quantum material could warn of neurological disease
What if the brain could detect its own disease? Researchers have been trying to create a material that "thinks" like the brain does, which would be more sensitive to early signs of neurological diseases such as Parkinson's. Thinking is a long way off, but Purdue University and Argonne National Laboratory researchers have engineered a new material that can at least "listen." More ...
'Deepfakes,' manipulated video and audio, pose threat to elections
A video on social media shows a high-ranking U.S. legislator declaring his support for an overwhelming tax increase. You react accordingly because the video looks like him and sounds like him, so certainly it has be him. Not necessarily. The term "fake news" is taking a much more literal turn as new technology is making it easier to manipulate the faces and audio in videos. The videos, called deepfakes, can then be posted to any social media site with no indication they are not the real thing. More ...
New electron microscopy technique limits membrane destruction
Membrane proteins play an important role in many biological processes. Studies suggest they're targeted by more than 50% of all modern medicinal drugs. Unfortunately for researchers, determining their structures has been a longstanding challenge because it's difficult to track the protein without damaging the cellular membrane using current techniques. Not anymore. More ...
Purdue partners with Fortune 500 companies for flexible online offerings
It's hardly up for debate that professionals today need to keep learning throughout their careers, but it's not always obvious how to do that. Quit your job and go back to college for a year or two? Get real. Watch some videos on YouTube? That's not going to impress the executives, and how do you really know if you have learned anything? Now Purdue is partnering with two Fortune 500 corporations — Cisco Systems and Eli Lilly and Co. — to offer flexible online programs to employees to boost their performance. More ...
How would you survive on Mars?
The Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitats Institute is working to ensure that the first long-term settlements on other planetary bodies are safe from hazards such as a meteoroid colliding with the moon or violent sandstorms on Mars. Shirley Dyke, professor and head of Purdue's RETH Institute, said she noticed that the habitats on other planets portrayed on TV don't look realistic. In order to keep occupants alive, a habitat system on another planet would have to be much more sophisticated, even smart. More ...
A magnetic personality, maybe not. But magnets can help AI get closer to the efficiency of the human brain.
Computers and artificial intelligence continue to usher in major changes in the way people shop. It is relatively easy to train a robot's brain to create a shopping list, but what about ensuring that the robotic shopper can easily tell the difference between the thousands of products in the store? Purdue researchers and experts in brain-inspired computing think part of the answer may be found in magnets. More ...
Time doesn't erase grief, strong emotions connected to the victims of mass shootings
It was April 1999 when the mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado shocked a nation. Video of students desperately sprinting from the school to safety under the watch of armed police flooded televisions across the nation. Images from such events and thoughts of the people who died can trigger strong emotions for people to deal with, whether it's two decades ago or 14 months ago, when the Stoneman Douglas High School shootings took place in Parkland, Florida. More ...
Purdue Systemwide
Purdue Northwest's College of Technology receives national cybersecurity designation a second time
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and National Security Agency granted for a second time the National Center for Academic Excellence for Cyber Defense Education (CAE-CDE 4Y) designation to Purdue University Northwest through its College of Technology. Purdue Northwest is one of only two Indiana institutions to receive the CAE-CDE 4Y designation, which runs through 2024, and the only one within the Purdue system. More ...
New study cites Purdue University Fort Wayne's $8.9 billion impact on Northeast Indiana
Purdue University Fort Wayne has an $8.9 billion total economic impact on Northeast Indiana annually and fuels 82,450 jobs in the region, according to a new study. Those findings and others are the result of a new assessment of the university's operations and workforce enhancement effects on business activity by The Perryman Group, a firm with deep expertise in conducting economic impact studies. More ...
Purdue in the News
ABC Good Morning America: What to know about ISA, a new way to pay for college with investors' money
Futurity: Insect wings inspire drone that can handle serious wind
eLearningInside: Microsoft announces strategic partnership with Purdue Global
ScienMag: Robots created with 3D printers could be caring for those in their golden years
Phys.Org: New hybrid energy method could fuel the future of rockets, spacecraft for exploration
WLFI: 1.3 billion-year-old Martian meteorite is on display at Purdue
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