More than four years after Tyler Trent’s passing from the rare bone cancer osteosarcoma, Purdue is ensuring that the memory of the former graduate and devoted Boilermaker football fan will live on through research to cure his disease and other pediatric cancers. On Saturday (Oct. 14) during an early timeout in Purdue’s Hammer Down Cancer football game against Ohio State University, Kelly and Tony Trent, Tyler’s parents, helped announce the establishment of Purdue’s new Tyler Trent Pediatric Cancer Research Center within the Purdue Institute for Cancer Research.
Purdue University Northwest is the only university partner from Indiana in an Indiana-Illinois-Michigan alliance awarded up to $1 billion in funding to develop a clean hydrogen production and distribution hub in the Midwest, as announced by President Biden on Friday (Oct. 13).
Four Purdue projects will share $2.4 million as recipients of the U.S. Defense Department’s DEPSCoR (Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) awards, a program to strengthen the agency’s relationships in basic research at institutions of higher learning. The four Purdue projects are among 25 chosen for the program.
Few university programs across the nation better equip the next generation of pharmacists, pharmaceutical researchers and groundbreaking drug discovery and development leaders than Purdue University’s College of Pharmacy. Purdue's graduate program is ranked No. 7 in the most recent U.S. News & World Report list, which was compiled in 2020 and included 134 schools and programs offering accredited Doctor of Pharmacy degrees.
The Office of Research and Office of the Provost will host a Life and Health Sciences Summit on Thursday (Oct. 19) for faculty to explore and define opportunities to deepen Purdue’s leadership in these fields. Ahead of the summit, faculty teams submitted 48 proposals for research topics where Purdue has unique nationally leading strengths. Funding from a pool of up to $2 million is set aside to catalyze such faculty pursuits as part of a seed investment.
Brickyard weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway is probably the most hectic 48 hours in motorsports. The top three American racing series all compete back-to-back – which means that pit lane has three times more people than usual. Into this chaos steps Purdue alumnus Jonathan Hassler, crew chief for NASCAR's #12 Team Penske driver Ryan Blaney. For Hassler, reaching the top of the pit box was a lifelong dream.