|
Welcome
The complex coupling of natural and human systems poses numerous grand environmental challenges. The Earth's resources are being consumed and modified at unprecedented rates as we expand our economy, but our economic future and quality of life are intrinsically dependent on a healthy natural environment. For continued prosperity, we must develop new ways to model and predict the impact of anthropogenic influences on ecosystems, monitor environmental quality, manage our natural resources, and develop new technologies that will help create a cleaner environment.
The Center for Environment (C4E), in close partnership with other centers, is synergizing relationships between faculty from many disciplines, as well as industry, the public, and the government to respond to these challenges.
|
|
|
Inaugural 2-year report on
Center Activities (pdf)
Contact the Center for a hardcopy |
|
"Protecting environmental integrity is essential to prosperity and our quality of life" |
Activities within the C4E focus on integrating:
-
discovery through anticipatory research that develops knowledge and innovative technologies
-
entrepreneurship through commercialization of the technologies that further economic development and are environmentally beneficial
-
engagement through policy analysis, regulatory guidance, and technology transfer
-
learning through creation of new opportunities for students seeking a truly interdisciplinary education
More information on specific projects being supported by the Center can be found by selecting Research or Education from the menu above.
C4E in the News
 |
Robin Ridgway (right), Purdue University Physical Facilities, receives the top award in the open division of the Green Week poster session
|
Congratulations to the Green Week Poster Session Winners!
Division: UNDERGRADUATE
Poster Title: Harvesting Heat In Data Centers
Authors: Benjamin Doerr, Bryan O'Neill, Bill Callaghan and Ben Stuby
Division: GRADUATE
Poster Title: Environmentally Friendly Novel Routes for the Transportation Fuel
Authors: Navneet Singh, Sara Yohe, Joao Batista Oliveiro Dos Santos,
Fabio Ribeiro, W. Nicholas Delgass, and Rakesh Agrawal
Division: Open/Unlimited
Poster Title: Purdue University Energy Stewardship
Author: Robin Mills Ridgway, Purdue University Physical Facilities
News archive
Out and About
 |
Center Director, Professor John Bickham, collecting wildlife and ecotoxicology data in Azerbaijan
|
Brent Ladd presented a soil ecology, monitoring, and water conservation workshop for the Natural Resources Engineering class at Purdue. September 26, 2008.
Brent Ladd presented a workshop about origins, ecology, and uses of fire as environmental technology to Klondike Elementary 4th and 5th graders. September 22, 2008.
Lesley Oliver spoke with Pre-environmental Studies, Natural Resources Environmental Sciences, and Ag 101 students at Purdue. September 11, 2008.
Director Bickham journeyed to Azerbaijan to collaborate on biological diversity research and meet with project participants. July 16-24, 2008.
Out and about archive
|
|
|
|
Please click here to fill out a Discovery Park visit request form and send to dpengage@purdue.edu, or call 765-494-3662 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
"Ethics on the Frontiers of Livestock Science"
October 1st at 12:00pm in MRGN 129.
Dr. Paul Thompson,
W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food, and Community Ethics at Michigan State University, will lead a discussion on this topic.
Bioethics Seminar Series:
"The Opposite of Human Enhancement: Nanotechnology and the Blind Chicken Problem"
5:30pm October 1st in MRGN 121.
Dr. Paul Thompson
W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food, and Community Ethics at Michigan State University
Seminar Website
Discovery Lecture Series presents:
A World of Uncertainty: Thresholds and Dilemmas in Ecology
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center
7-9 pm
Free and Open to the Public
Flyer
Featuring:
“Thresholds: How do We Predict the Unpredictable?”
By Dr. James MacMahon, Trustee Professor of Biology and Director of the Ecology Center, Utah State University and Chairman of the Board for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
“The Male Predicament”
By Dr. Theo Colborn, Professor Emeritus, University of Florida, co-author of Our Stolen Future, and President of the Endocrine Disruption Exchange
“What You Need to Know About Natural Gas Production”
Presented by Dr. Theo Colborn
Flyer
President, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange
Professor Emeritus, University of Florida
Location: CIVL 1144.
Time & Date: 2:30 PM, Wednesday, October 8th
Co-sponsored by Purdue’s Center for the Environment, Forestry & Natural Resources Department, and Department of Biology.
"Conservation Genetics in the Wild"
Presented by Dr. John C. Avise
Flyer
Class of 1950 Lecture Hall, Rm 224
3:30 PM, Wednesday, October 8th.
Co-sponsored by Purdue’s Center for the Environment, Forestry & Natural Resources Department, and Department of Biology.
Mini-Symposium on Parkinson Disorders by School Health Sciences.
9:30 - 12:30, October 10
Lawson Hall 1142
Flyer
Save the Date! Dec. 5th.
2nd Annual Ecological Sciences & Engineering Symposium. Stewart Center, Purdue.
Keynote speakers, poster session, biomimicry workshop.
Event Archive
|
|
|
|
Discovery Park Seed Grant Competition for 2009 just announced!
A total of $300,000 has been allocated to fund seed grants of up to $50,000 each for proposals that catalyze new high impact activities at Purdue, and that involve a Discovery Park center.
Proposals require a DP center support letter. please contact Lesley Oliver.
Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award (ONES) (R01)
Letters of Intent Receipt Date(s): October 1, 2008
Application Due Date(s): October 31, 2008. Web
The Ecological Sciences and Engineering (ESE) Graduate Program provides students with an interdisciplinary educational experience that integrates the science and engineering concepts needed to understand environmental and ecological phenomena.
Visit the ESE pages for information on applying to the program.
|
|
|
|
2008-2009 WATER QUALITY INTERNSHIP PROGRAM with the Great Lakes Alliance, Chicago, IL. Deadline is October 16. Fact Sheet
Student Engineering Internships and Full Time Positions through Office of Industrial Relations, Civil Engineering Department more...
Indiana Living Green magazine is looking for a part-time distributor for the West Lafayette - Lafayette and Purdue area. Contact Lynn Jenkins, Publisher.
|
|
|
|
Clean Manufacturing
Technology Institute (CMTI)
Purdue Interdisciplinary Center for Ecological Sustainability (PICES)
Purdue Climate Change Research Center (PCCRC)
Illinois- Indiana Sea Grants
Water Resources Research Center (WRRC)
Indiana State Climate Office
|
|
|
|
Center for the Environment
503 Northwestern Avenue
West Lafayette , IN 47907
Phone: 765-494-5146
Fax: 765-496-1369
Email: environment@purdue.edu
|
|
|
|
|
|
