When 15 collaborative, strategic and adaptable professionals come together and manage more than 1,500 purchasing and contract interactions each year, remarkable things happen. Purdue’s Procurement Services team plays a vital role in powering the university’s success by establishing vendors to provide everything from custodial supplies to vehicles, executing and managing a contract for the Campus Connect shuttle between West Lafayette and Indianapolis, and even sourcing multimillion-dollar research equipment.
For the first time in the U.S., a roadway has wirelessly charged an electric heavy-duty truck driving at highway speeds, demonstrating key technology that could help lower the costs of building electrified highways for all electric vehicles to use. The experimental highway segment tests a patent-pending system designed by Purdue engineers. The segment, built by the Indiana Department of Transportation, is a quarter-mile stretch on U.S. Highway 52/U.S. Highway 231 in West Lafayette.
A multidisciplinary Purdue team will receive $8.8 million over three years from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for its Microsystem Induced Catalysis (MICA) program. MICA’s mission is to bring together molecular and microsystem engineering in ways that previously were unfeasible, paving the way for new breakthroughs in material synthesis, medical therapies and biothreat detection.
As a nonprofit teacher and mentor, Purdue Global graduate TJ Gilmore (BS human services ’22) helps young people in Indianapolis build character, life skills and confidence through mentorship and adventure. Read how his degree gave him the launchpad to fulfill a promise, grow his career and inspire a new generation of adventurers.
