Purdue University President Mung Chiang joined business and community leaders and elected officials in northwest Indiana on Wednesday (Oct. 11) at the annual One Region luncheon to explore economic growth sectors for the region in the decade ahead.
Two graduate students in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics have separately received funding from NASA to develop new methods for monitoring the Earth and its climate. Siddharth Subramanyam and Archana Choudhari will both be assessing if Signals of Opportunity methods can be used to take measurements on Earth’s surface. Their principal investigator, professor Jim Garrison, is a pioneer in the field.
Andrew Mesecar, Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and the Walther Professor in Cancer Structural Biology, has been named assistant vice president for research and director of the Purdue Institute for Cancer Research after serving since August 2022 as interim director.
A panel discussion with David A. Reingold, senior vice president for policy planning and the Justin S. Morrill Dean of Liberal Arts, at 5 p.m. Oct. 19 will feature four participants in the Purdue Ukraine Scholars Initiative. The hourlong event, which is free and open to the public, will be at the Nancy T. Hansen Theatre in Purdue’s Yue-Kong Pao Hall.
Purdue scientists and engineers from both West Lafayette and the new Purdue University in Indianapolis came together in Indiana’s capital city on Oct. 5 to participate in an inaugural workshop for Purdue collaborations on sustainability.
A new episode of “This Is Purdue” features former Purdue football quarterback Curtis Painter. Painter describes what it was like running onto the field at Ross-Ade for the first time in front of 60,000 fans and what it meant to play for the legendary Joe Tiller, as well as memories of the Colts playing in Super Bowl XLIV in 2010 and his family’s legacy in Purdue Athletics.
