With the Fall 2023 semester set to start Monday (Aug. 21), Purdue University has announced several personnel updates to its leadership team, including the next Frederick L. Hovde Dean of the College of Science, senior vice presidents, the director of the Purdue Institute for Cancer Research and the vice president for communications.
The Purdue University Board of Trustees recently gave approval to plan, finance, construct and award construction contracts for a Nursing and Pharmacy Education Building on the West Lafayette campus.
Biological creatures have thousands of muscles that help them to move effortlessly. Duplicating that in a robot would require numerous actuators, wires and other machinery. Purdue University researchers have borrowed technology from pixel-based displays to create flexible, paper-thin surfaces that can morph into detailed 3D shapes without bulky infrastructure.
Starting this year, Purdue will be home to the Indiana Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, a partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and the Wildlife Management Institute. It will be the 43rd USGS Cooperative Research Unit in the country, and the first in Indiana.
Fabio H. Ribeiro, the William Nicholas and Elizabeth Holstein Delgass Distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering and director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources, has been selected for the 2023 Exceptional Achievements in Catalysis award by the Catalysis Science and Technology Division of the American Chemical Society.
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