New Web site uses video storytelling to capture Arctic life, research

Paul Shepson

Co-developed by Purdue University atmospheric chemist Paul Shepson and collaborating author Peter Lourie, the site takes visitors on a digital journey of life in the Arctic, describing how it may be changing and highlighting research under way in the Arctic Region near Barrow, Alaska.

Woodson will succeed Jim Woodward, who has been serving as interim chancellor for NC State since June 9, 2009. The land-grant university for North Carolina, NC State also is the largest, with 34,000 students.

The Faculty Early Career Development awards range from $300,000-$525,000 in research funding over four or five years. About 400 researchers win the awards annually.

Babak Ziaie

The material is made by impregnating ordinary paper - even newsprint - with a mixture of mineral oil and "magnetic nanoparticles" of iron oxide. The nanoparticle-laden paper can then be moved using a magnetic field.

Wiley Dining Court

Every dining court project at Purdue has won at least one citation from the American School and University or College and University Planning magazines. Both publications are information sources for higher education administrators and architects responsible for the planning, design, operation and maintenance of educational facilities.

Major factors driving up rates will be new federal air-quality standards, coupled with increasing construction and fuel costs, said Douglas Gotham, director of the State Utility Forecasting Group, a state-funded panel of researchers based at Purdue.

The researchers have demonstrated their method on petroleum plants that separate crude, showing that 70 of the new sequences they identified could enable oil refineries to improve the energy efficiency of this step anywhere from 6 percent to 48 percent, said Rakesh Agrawal, the Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering.

Nelson and Ejeta

A pair of World Food Prize Laureates, Philip Nelson (2007) and Gebisa Ejeta (2009), both Purdue University College of Agriculture faculty members, will speak on the topic "Assuring Global Food Security."

Córdova addressed candidates during two commencement ceremonies in the Elliott Hall of Music, where she awarded a total of 1,318 bachelor's degrees, 166 master's degrees, 150 doctoral degrees and two doctor of pharmacy degrees. 

Monsoon rainfall has decreased over the last 50 years in rural areas where irrigation has been used to increase agriculture in northern India, said Dev Niyogi, an associate professor of agronomy and earth and atmospheric sciences. At the same time, heavily urban areas are seeing an increase in heavy rainfall.

Purdue's application volume so far has increased 20 percent to more than 24,000 applications, up from 20,000 this time last year. The university's Office of Admissions on Friday (Dec. 11) began contacting more than 15,000 students to inform them of the admissions decision.

Due to declining revenues, Gov. Mitch Daniels said the state will withhold $150 million for higher education over the next 18 months, which, if shared proportionally among all state public institutions, could total more than $30 million for Purdue's West Lafayette campus. When news of the state cutback was announced Dec. 4, the university already had been working to identify another $10 million in expenditure reductions for 2010-11 and another $30 million in recurring cuts beginning in 2011 from the West Lafayette campus budget.

Professor Joseph Irudayaraj and graduate student Jiji Chen, both in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, have found that the nanoprobes, or nanorods, when coated with the breast cancer drug Herceptin, are reaching the endosomes of cells, mimicking the delivery of the drug on its own. Endosomes perform a sorting function to deliver drugs and other substances to the appropriate locations.