Today (July 6), Purdue issued a 2023 snapshot of recently completed, ongoing and planned capital projects demonstrating more than $1.3 billion in facilities investments, which are taking place alongside the Board of Trustees’ approval in June of the 11th and 12th consecutive years of frozen tuition.
Robbee Wedow, an assistant professor of sociology and data science in Purdue University’s College of Liberal Arts, maps miles of genes for insights into how genetics interacts with social forces and environments. He uses genetic databases to study how tiny bits of genes called single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, affect complex, overarching traits including sexual behavior, educational attainment, socioeconomic status, health behaviors and more.
Growing up in Montana, Emily Forsythe knew college was in her future. After a high school field trip to the Federal Reserve Bank, she was drawn to economics. With her degree from Montana State University, she pondered graduate school to focus on natural resource and environmental economics and research. “My undergraduate advisor thought I would mesh here at Purdue, and he was right,” she says.
Purdue researchers are top contenders in a national competition to provide new tools that help health care providers systematically address social factors that negatively affect health. Purdue team members in the competition have combined their unique disciplinary strengths to create and hone a software solution with the working title “Bridges,” which is short for “Bridges to Community Resources.” They are Nicole Adams, clinical associate professor of nursing; Nan Kong, professor of biomedical engineering; and Baijian Yang, professor of computer technology.
A new episode of “This Is Purdue” features Susan Edgell, the daughter of Purdue trailblazer Virginia Ferris. Ferris was the first woman appointed to the College of Agriculture faculty and had a significant influence on the department’s teaching, research and culture. She was also one of the world’s leading experts on the soybean cyst nematode.
Purdue has unveiled Bravo+, an enhanced employee recognition program that rewards employees whose work propels the university forward. Derived from the Bravo Awards program established in 2013, Bravo+ honors the excellence found across all university areas and job functions by recognizing extraordinary employee achievements at every scale.