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News Archive
Discovery Park leads Green Week energy-environment discussion
 Discovery Park will promote a series of events during Purdue University's Green Week designed to spark discussion on the role climate change, the environment and alternative energy researchers can play to solve the global energy problem. Purdue News Article, September 2, 2008.
Using live fish, new tool a sentinel for environmental contamination
Featuring C4E co-sponsored research by doctoral student Brian Sanchez and C4E members Marshall Porterfield, Hugo Ochoa-Acuña, and Marisol Sepúlveda. Purdue News Article, August 12, 2008.
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As this image shows, populations of Diporeia have precipitously declined since the mid-1990s. Purdue researchers, led by C4E member Marisol Sepulveda, are searching for an explanation for their dwindling numbers, which threaten to have a major impact on fish populations throughout the Great Lakes. larger map |
A Great Lakes mystery: The case of the disappearing species.
Purdue News article on C4E supported research. May 29, 2008.
Discovery Channel News, May 30, 2008.
Online tool aids in local planning, economic development.
Purdue News article on a C4E seed project. April 23, 2008.
Jeff Evans receives 2008 College of Technology Outstanding Faculty in Discovery Award. In C4E, Jeff’s work focuses on developing wireless sensor networks for monitoring environmental conditions. Congratulations Jeff!
Road losses add up, taxing amphibians and other animals.
Purdue News article, April 16, 2008.
Eskimos can continue 2,000 year old whale hunt (Earth & Sky interview with C4E Director, John Bickham. Highlights research results informing decisions on whale harvest - click on the "listen link" in the upper right corner)
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Featuring research by C4E members Larry Nies, Ron Turco, and Leila Nyberg. Leila is a graduate student in the Center’s Ecological Sciences and Engineering graduate program
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Manufactured Buckyballs don’t harm microbes that clean the environment.
Purdue News article, April 8, 2008
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Rafael Smith (center), Industrial Design senior at Purdue, takes top place for his UberShelter concept in the Idea 2 Product Competition for Environmental & Social Entrepreneurship.
(also pictured, Nancy Clement, Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship and Brent Ladd, Center for the Environment) |
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Purdue C4E Sends Student-Entrepreneurs to National competition. Purdue news Article, March 26.
Student Competition Turns Out Ideas to Help Nonprofits. Lafayette Journal & Courier article, March 2, 2008
Q & A with Rafael Smith: Reusable shelter has crisis in mind. Lafayette Journal & Courier article, March 24, 2008
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Mike Smolen (kneeling center), C4E Research Associate Professor, works with Native American community members in Alaska on environmental monitoring. |
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Purdue Set for Environmental and Social Entrepreneurship Competition. Inside Indiana Business article, February 11, 2008
C4E's Mike Smolen works with native Alaskan villages on tides research. "Local Know-How Augements Environmental Study of Tides". article from Kodiak Daily.
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Monitoring growth: Scientists advise as Azerbaijan moves into modern era. ( pdf) |
Purdue experts discuss the future of biofuels.
Purdue news article
View the panel presentation and question/answer session (video)
C4E's Clean Manufacturing Technology Institute helps launch "Sustain Winona" Initiative.
article from Winona State University
Director Bickham's and C4E's environmental assessment efforts in Azerbaijan are featured in a recent report by Vice President for Research at Purdue. (scroll pages 16-18). (pdf)
"Symposium highlights Purdue's research in environmental areas. Nov. 7"
article from Purdue News
article from Inside Indiana Business
[View the winning research posters and abstracts]
"Symposium presents research on ecological issues. Nov. 12" article from Exponent
C4E seed project presents "A Watershed Moment: Preserving and Improving Access to Water Quality Data" view poster
Study helps preserve arctic whale and Eskimo subsistence hunt: Read More>>>
Knowledge flows at first Indiana Rivers Rally conference Read More>>>
C4E seed project presents "A Watershed Moment: Preserving and Improving Access to Water Quality Data" view poster
Study helps preserve arctic whale and Eskimo subsistence hunt: Read More>>>
Knowledge flows at first Indiana Rivers Rally conference Read More>>>
Student entrepreneurs to present inventions at Purdue competiton Read more>>>
Radical engine redesign would reduce pollution, oil consumption Read More>>>
Test finds manufactured nanoparticles don't harm soil ecology Read More>>>
New coating could nix smudges, fogging on windshields, eyeglasses Read More>>>
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