The longest serving sitting president of Federal Reserve Banks and one of the nation’s influential economists and respected scholar-leaders has been chosen to lead the transformational growth of the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business at Purdue University. After an 8-month search, James “Jim” Bullard on Thursday (July 13) was named the inaugural Dr. Samuel R. Allen Dean of DSB starting Aug. 15.
With dozens of missions headed to the space between Earth and the moon over the next 10 years, there’s bound to be traffic. To prevent those spacecraft from running into each other, Purdue University engineer Carolin Frueh is investigating how to observe and keep track of all human-made objects and predict the impact of their potential damage in this Earth-moon neighborhood, called the cislunar region.
Many at-risk forest tree species will probably need biotechnology along with traditional tree-breeding approaches to survive, according to research led by Purdue’s Douglass Jacobs and Kasten Dumroese of the U.S. Forest Service. Their findings on biotechnological risk assessment and forest tree restoration was recently published in the journal New Forests.
Fu Zhao, professor of environmental and ecological engineering and mechanical engineering, recently received the Kos Ishii-Toshiba Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Zhao received this award for sustained and meritorious contributions to design for manufacturing and life-cycle assessment.
A new program, Purdue Summer Training on Awareness and Readiness for Semiconductors, helps students develop deep-tech skills like integrated circuit design, fabrication and characterization of semiconductor devices and materials. More than 250 students applied for the program in its first year and 72 were selected and divided into two tracks, chip design and semiconductor manufacturing.
For nearly 40 years, Forestry and Natural Resources students have spent five weeks each summer among the national forests and lakes of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, learning from some of Purdue Agriculture’s leading faculty. Following an initial one-week introductory instruction on field navigation and surveying, forestry, wildlife, and aquatic sciences majors focused on program-specific modules.
A special thank-you to Chrissie Strong (Agricultural Economics) for helping recruit students and building our department’s learning community! Her enthusiasm and special efforts to assist students through All Aboard and to enhance their first year here have been phenomenal. Thank you, Chrissie! – Jo Thomas (Agricultural Economics)
