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Purdue researchers design miniature insectlike robots

These miniature microids can move their tiny legs and mandibles using solid-state "muscles".

Purdue researchers create magnetic "ferropaper"

ECE Professor Ziaie holds a miniature birdlike shape made from the material.

NEES Operations Center Up and Running

Purdue receives $105 million award to lead a national Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES).

Purdue kicks off national center to visualize homeland security data

VACCINE, the new center will develop specialized software to help emergency personnel respond to and manage a variety of calamities, from disease outbreaks to economic crises.

Purdue researcher receives Presidential award

Monica Cox is named a recepient of the 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Purdue researchers discover new findings that could help hybrid, electric cars keep their cool

New technologies use laser for medical implants

A "Laser Deposition" system is used to create arterial stents and longer-lasting medical implants to meet the huge global market demand for artificial hips and knees.

Purdue Sorghum Researcher Wins 2009 World Food Prize

Gebisa Ejeta was named the recipient of the World Food Prize for research

Purdue Researchers Create Prostate Cancer 'Homing Device'

A new prostate cancer "homing device" could allow for the first targeted treatment of the disease.

Scientists are Learning More About Big Birds From Feathers

Learn more about research being done on birds through their feathers.

Tiny 'MEMS' Devices to Filter, Amplify Electronic Signals

Researchers are developing a new class of tiny mechanical devices containing vibrating, hair-thin structures that could be used to filter electronic signals in cell phones and for other more exotic applications.

Announcements

Purdue Finalizes Plan to Provide RCR Education to Satisfy New NSF Requirement
In Fall 2009, the National Science Foundation (NSF) published its implementation of a new requirement for education of undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the responsible conduct of research (RCR). Beginning in January 2010, when Purdue submits proposals to NSF, Sponsored Program Services must certify that Purdue has a plan to provide this RCR education and will ensure that students and postdoctoral researchers supported by NSF to conduct research will receive RCR education according to the plan. For more information on the Purdue plan and its implementation, see http://www.purdue.edu/research/vpr/rschadmin/rcr/index.php.

American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA)
The Office of the Vice President for Research has established a Web site to provide timely information on grant opportunities resulting from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA). The site includes links to federal funding agencies, information about campus groups focused on funding opportunities in life sciences, education, energy and defense, and ARRA contact information for both OVPR and SPS.

News

Purdue to create Center for High-Performance Buildings at Herrick Labs.
Jan 21, 2010
Purdue University will create a $23.5 million Center for High Performance Buildings to design systems for future structures that are more environmentally and user friendly, energy efficient, and safe.Construction on the Purdue project is expected to begin in February 2010 and be completed by December 2012. The center will be housed in a new 68,000-square-foot facility upgrading Purdue's Ray W. Herrick Laboratories.
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Purdue researchers develop new technology called 'Ferropaper'.
Jan 21, 2010
Researchers at Purdue University have created a magnetic "ferropaper" that might be used to make low-cost "micromotors" for surgical...
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Snowflake chemistry could give clues about ozone depletion
Dec 07, 2009
The unique shapes of snow crystals and the complex chemical reactions that occur on their surface could give clues about ground-level...
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Purdue faculty leads new Homeland Security Research Center

ECE professor David Ebert speaks about the newly formed Center on Visual Analytics for Command, Control and Interoperability Environments(VACCINE)at Purdue.

USDOE funds new Energy Frontier Research Center at Purdue

Biological sciences associate professor Maureen McCann speaks about Purdue's newly formed Center for Direct Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels, or C3Bio.

Purdue Sorghum Researcher Wins World Food Prize

Gebisa Ejeta, Distinguished Professor of Agronomy at Purdue University was named the recipient of the World Food Prize for research leading to the increased production and availability of sorghum in his native Africa.

Biologists Learn Mechanism of Viral Molecular Motor

Researchers have discovered the atomic structure of a powerful "molecular motor" that packages DNA into the head segment of some viruses...

HUBzero Cyberinfrastructure for Scientific Collaboration

HUBzero allows you to create dynamic web sites that connect a community in scientific research and educational activities...

Purdue Teragrid

TeraGrid is a project to build the world's largest, most comprehensive grid computing cyberinfrastructure for open scientific research.

Starting Points

About Research at Purdue

The objective of this site is to provide faculty, staff and visitors access to the services provided by the Office of the Vice President for Research.

Dimensions of Discovery

PDF and Excel files of Sponsored Program Awards are now available online. Awards are posted two months behind the current month and an archive is available from the OVPR Publications link.