Purdue has received a five-year, $25 million grant from Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment Inc. The grant will support highly collaborative efforts with community partners to improve early childhood education, child care and transportation access in a seven-county region.
For years, scientists focused on how plants make secondary metabolites, the compounds that plants produce to enhance their defense and survival mechanisms. In a new study, Purdue researchers highlight the importance of specialized metabolites in regulating the genes that plants use to form chemical compounds.
Purdue University in Indianapolis motorsports engineering students and graduates connected in person with potential employers Dec. 6 at a first-of-its-kind motorsports symposium. While machine learning and AI, electrification and hybrid technologies, driver safety, and autonomous racing were all discussed, one thing was made clear: the critical need for a skilled workforce.