WASHINGTON, DC, April 26, 2010 - Today, a new 501(c) 3 organization named Professors Beyond Borders was launched during a half-day session at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Conceptualized by a group of U.S. Department of State-sponsored Fulbright New Century Scholars, the mission of Professors Beyond Borders is to create a network of highly-trained, academically oriented volunteers available to assist with specific projects related to sustainable development around the world.
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A leading researcher advancing efforts in thermoelectric energy conversion at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been...
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Researchers are developing a new type of computer memory that could be faster than the existing commercial memory and use far...
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Alexandra Boltasseva, a Purdue University assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been named one of the...
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A team of Purdue University researchers is among a small group in the world that has successfully created ultrapure material...
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Researchers are developing new technologies that combine a laser and electric fields to manipulate fluids and tiny particles...
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A developer of drug-delivery devices based in the Purdue Research Park is competing against nine other entrepreneurial teams...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University researchers recently took their miniature mass spectrometer grocery shopping to test...
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Researchers have developed a method for creating single-crystal arrays of a material called graphene, an advance that opens up...
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PITTSBURGH, June 2, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -Purdue University researchers have completed large-scale tests to verify the...
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For the second consecutive year, top high school students will travel to Purdue University to participate June 5-17 in the ninth...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The U.S. State Department is selecting Purdue University to lead one of six U.S.-China EcoPartnerships...
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On May 10, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will deliver opening remarks at a signing ceremony for six new U.S.-China...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Leading bioenergy industry experts, researchers and government officials from the United States and Brazil...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University is forming two joint laboratories with China's Beihang University to focus on low emissions...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University distinguished professor of agronomy and World Food Prize laureate Gebisa Ejeta has received...
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When a physician is treating a patient in an intensive care unit, nurses are more than partners. They're also human safety checklists...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue doctoral student Benjavan Upatising thinks she can make a difference in assisting those with chronic...
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NEXTRANS Center director, Dr. Srinivas Peeta, and research associate, Dr. Sushant Sharma, will present Wednesday, April 6, 2011...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University biochemist has demonstrated a process using nanotechnology to better assess whether...
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The fascinating, tiny world of nanotechnology will take center stage during the second annual NanoDays on April 15 and 16 at...
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This meeting has been rescheduled from April 22 to May 13 in MANN 203 at 11:30 a.m. The Energy Center will host a pizza lunch...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A company developing a nanocomposite bone substitute claimed the $30,000 top prize Friday (March 25) in...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University researchers have collaborated with scientists at General Atomics to create safe and...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - An international nuclear weapons specialist will speak at Purdue University this week about the potential...
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West Lafayette, Ind. - Purdue University researchers are leading a program for Indiana's rural high school teachers that encourages...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A prominent researcher who has studied the environmental impact of last year's massive oil spill will...
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LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A northern Indiana county has approved changes to an ordinance to allow louder wind turbines despite some residents'...
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Award-winning NPR science correspondent Richard Harris addressed a standing-room-only crowd at Purdue University on Feb. 3 as...
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The 6th annual Frontiers in Bioenergy Symposium is quickly approaching on May 15-18, 2011. Registration will soon be open.
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Researchers are developing a new type of biological and chemical sensor that has few moving parts, is low-cost and yet highly...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue's Board of Trustees on Friday (Feb. 4) permitted the university to pursue leasing land as part...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University researcher is proposing development of a new cross-disciplinary approach for analyzing...
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The Daily Planet interviewed Greg Shaver and has a wonderful story on the fuel and flexible control efforts at Herrick Laboratories...
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Purdue University is considering a partnership with private companies to develop a 60-turbine wind farm in northern Tippecanoe...
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Researchers are developing a new class of "plasmonic metamaterials" as potential building blocks for advanced optical technologies...
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The NEXTRANS Center, a Region V Regional University Center headquartered at Purdue University, and NAVTEQ will collaborate on...
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Purdue University researchers have reproduced portions of the female breast in a tiny slide-sized model dubbed "breast on-a-chip"...
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In mid-May, NPR first reported that the government was grossly underestimating the size of the BP oilspill in the Gulf of Mexico...
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Every Friday, Purdue Today's "Did You Know?," a new feature, will explore unusual, unique and fascinating details that make this...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University scientists have found the last undiscovered gene responsible for the production of the...
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Researchers are creating a new type of solar cell designed to self-repair like natural photosynthetic systems in plants by using...
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Dr. Pengcheng Zhang's Ph.D. dissertation, "A Generalized Modeling Framework to Analyze Interdependencies Among Infrastructure...
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The Birck Nanotechnology Center and Energy Center are pleased to invite Purdue Faculty to an afternoon workshop in the Burton...
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Purdue and General Electric will unveil an electric vehicle charging station on campus today (Dec. 13) with a new Chevrolet Volt...
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The second NEXTRANS Indiana High School Essay Competition will conclude this Friday, December 10, 2010.
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Discovery Park's Visions of Discovery received a Gold award as best individual website or section and will be recognized at the...
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Purdue University researchers are working with General Motors to build thermoelectric generators, which produce an electric current...
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Researchers are creating a system that harvests heat from an engine's exhaust to generate electricity, reducing a car's fuel...
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Earlier this fall, a team of UT scientists traveled to Beijing for the fourth annual workshop of the China-US Joint Research...
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Please save the date on Friday, December 3, 2010 from 8:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. at attend this discussion on the IUPUI campus.
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Professor Aaron Ciechanover, the 2004 Nobel laureate in chemistry, will speak at Purdue University as part of the Honeywell Nobel...
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The age of personalized medicine has arrived. One day soon, a person's genetic makeup may be able to help doctors better detect...
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Researchers have developed a method that uses aluminum and a liquid alloy to extract hydrogen from seawater to run engines in...
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Purdue University and several Colombian agencies have signed an agreement establishing the Colombia-Purdue Institute for Advanced...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Swift Enterprises Ltd. has entered into an agreement that will allow Purdue University researchers to...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - How the local Gulf of Mexico community recovers from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill will depend on...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - More than 30,000 hours of underwater videos of the failed Deepwater Horizon oil drill platform in the...
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Longtime Purdue agricultural economics professor Otto Doering has been named director of the Purdue Climate Change Research Center...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University and three other U.S. universities have announced a multiyear partnership aimed at strengthening...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. Experts know nutrition is a common link in breast cancer, and a team led by Purdue University researchers...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. Breast cancer prevention and nutrition will be the focus during an Oct. 18 and 19 symposium at Purdue...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Award-winning NPR correspondent Richard Harris, global industry safety expert Deborah Grubbe and congressional...
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Arun Majumdar to speak on Energy Innovations in the 21st Century: Role of ARPA-E
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When Purdue University students Cody Ward, Sean Smith and Arjun Bhasin applied for the Interns for Indiana program, they had...
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Purdue University biomedical engineering professor Alyssa Panitch has been named the first faculty entrepreneur-in-residence...
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Purdue University's Center for the Environment and the Chinese Academy of Sciences are forming a five-year partnership focused...
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Purdue University researchers have developed a new type of pump for drug-delivery patches that might use arrays of "microneedles"...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University is part of a research consortium led by Pennsylvania State University to develop technologies...
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Penn State researchers will receive $129 million over the next five years from several federal sources, including the Department...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University researchers have developed a technology that has the potential to more quickly identify...
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Researchers have overcome a fundamental obstacle in using new "metamaterials" for radical advances in optical technologies, including...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Studies by a Purdue University-led team have revealed a potential marker for prostate cancer that could...
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Purdue biological sciences professor Maureen McCann will become the next director of the Energy Center, the university's center...
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Purdue University will lead a new research center to improve photovoltaic solar cells as part of a national effort to bring alternative...
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APS Colloquium, Argonne National Lab
3 PM August 4, 2010
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the worlds leading university-research consortium for...
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WASHINGTON, DC, April 26, 2010 - Today, a new 501(c) 3 organization named Professors Beyond Borders was launched during a half-day...
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Chemical engineers at Purdue University have developed a new method to process agricultural waste and other biomass into biofuels...
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A team of scientists and engineers, including Purdue University mechanical engineering professor Steven Wereley, released figures...
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The Discovery Learning Research Center has selected the research team of Rachael Kenney and Melanie Shoffner for its 2010 Faculty...
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Purdue University President France A. Córdova will meet with the leaders of two Chinese universities to enhance collaborative...
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Purdue University researchers will join Midwest colleagues and industry leaders on campus May 24 and 25 to discuss advancements...
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UniSA is bringing five distinguished international researchers to Adelaide under a new program to boost research collaborations...
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If the fundamental economics of supply and demand are any guide, Purdue University's Interns for Indiana program continues to...
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New research findings suggest that an experimental ultrasensitive medical imaging technique that uses a pulsed laser and tiny...
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Join Shell and Purdue for a series of discussions that will explore energy sustainability, the future of energy, and the challenges...
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Spring started with a bang for physicists as particles collided at a world-record energy during an international experiment that...
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On April 1st, VACCINEs David Ebert was the guest speaker at the Anti Terrorism Advisory Council (ATAC) meeting for the Northern...
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Purdue University's Healthcare Technical Assistance Program has named Monica Arrowsmith director of a new center to help Indiana...
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Researchers have completed work on a crucial component for an experimental hydrogen storage system for cars, part of efforts...
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Richard Cosier is trading his role as dean of Krannert School of Management to become the Avrum and Joyce Gray Director of the...
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Purdue University researchers have developed a miniature device capable of converting ultrafast laser pulses into bursts of radio-frequency...
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Longtime Purdue University professor James Cooper has been named interim director of the Birck Nanotechnology Center, a Discovery...
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An interactive Web site called nanoHUB.org, which makes available scientific simulations, seminars, interactive courses and other...
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Student-led companies that develop consumer products from the byproducts of ethanol production and a tissue-healing technology...
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Purdue's Oncological Sciences Center and the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center will share a five-year, $1...
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A Purdue University scientist has shown man-made changes to the landscape have affected Indian monsoon rains, suggesting that...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Two top Purdue University administrators have been named to lead the university's Burton D. Morgan Center...
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Purdue University is participating in Global Entrepreneurship Week from Nov. 16-22 to celebrate the role that entrepreneurs play...
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GlucaGo LLC, a life sciences company led by a trio from Purdue and Indiana universities, captured the 2009 Global Idea to Product...
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Researchers at Purdue University have discovered a new approach for repairing damaged nerve fibers in spinal cord injuries using...
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Purdue University on Monday (Nov. 9) will kick off a national center to develop specialized software to help homeland security...
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Eight finalists have been selected to compete for $100,000 on Nov. 10 at the sixth Purdue University Life Sciences Business Plan...
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Edit: Deadline has been extended to November 9, 2009
The 23rd Annual Burton D. Morgan Business Plan...
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An Indo-US Joint Conference on "Infectious Diseases: Novel Strategies for Design & Development of Vaccines and Drugs", Jan 5-8...
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Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in efforts to use tiny structures called carbon nanotubes to create a new class of...
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Sawyer Sparks, the creator of Soy-Yer Dough, a gluten-free modeling compound, was one of the entrepreneurs selected this season...
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The Indiana Advanced Electric Vehicle Training and Education Consortium will develop certificate and associate degree programs...
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Purdue researchers have created magnetically responsive gold nanostars that may offer a new approach to biomedical imaging.
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Friday, Jun. 26, 2009
The Truant Monsoon: Why India Is Worried
By Madhur Singh / New Delhi
The bad news for India is scrawled...
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A simulation of electrical current moving through a futuristic electronic transistor has been modeled atom-by-atom in less than...
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Researchers are making progress in creating digital transistors using a material called graphene, potentially sidestepping an...
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Researchers have created and tested miniature devices that are implanted in tumors to generate oxygen, boosting the killing power...
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A new tool developed by nuclear engineers at Purdue University will be hitched to an experimental fusion reactor at Princeton...
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Robert and Anne Burnett Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Vlad Shalaev has been appointed as Scientific Director...
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John R. Weaver, facility manager at Purdue University's Birck Nanotechnology Center, has been named a recipient of the 2011 Monroe...
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Researchers have overcome a fundamental obstacle in developing breath-analysis technology to rapidly diagnose patients by detecting...
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Researchers have invented a technique that uses inexpensive paper to make "microfluidic" devices for rapid medical diagnostics...
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Researchers have overcome a fundamental obstacle in developing breath-analysis technology to rapidly diagnose patients by detecting...
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Purdue University has been awarded $1.5 million to study quantum information science, a new field paving the way for quantum...
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Purdue University and several Colombian agencies have signed an agreement establishing the Colombia-Purdue Institute for Advanced...
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Nearly 800 papers were submitted for consideration and presentations from Dr. Ian Buckle, University of Nevada, Reno, NEES Research...
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A biosensor utilizing black platinum and carbon nanotubes developed at Purdue University will help give scientists a better understanding...
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A new technology enabling tiny machines called micro electromechanical systems to "self-calibrate" could make possible super-accurate...
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Researchers have shown that an advanced cooling technology being developed for high-power electronics in military and automotive...
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Nine top Purdue University graduate students at the Birck Nanotechnology Center will form the inaugural class in the Discovery...
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Purdue University researchers have developed a miniature device capable of converting ultrafast laser pulses into bursts of radio-frequency...
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An interactive Web site called nanoHUB.org, which makes available scientific simulations, seminars, interactive courses and other...
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A new approach in the design of miniature, insectlike robots could lead to "microids" the size of ants that move their tiny legs...
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Heart failure patients with higher health literacy are more likely to engage in self-care behaviors. Funded by an RCHE seed grant...
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Two Purdue graduate students have developed sampling kits and educational materials for three Native Alaskan villages as part...
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Indiana is the second largest recipient of grant funding, and it's a perfect example of what this will mean. You've got Purdue...
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Following the successful spring 2009 conference, National Priorities and Goals, the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering...
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Assistive technology innovators, educators, investors, and users are invited to attend the Center for Assistive Technology Entrepreneurs'...
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