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Purdue-UniCartagena collaboration brings water filters to rural Colombia
On July 31st, Professor Chad Jafvert traveled to Cartagena with a group of 3 students in a Global Design Team supported by the Office of Global Engineering Programs. Their goal was to provide the community of San Jose del Playón, in Bolívar, with access to clean water. Prof. Jafvert, along with Prof. John Howarter at Purdue, have been working on a reliable and inexpensive slow sand (or bio-sand) filter system to improve water quality since 2011. Read more>>
UNAL-Purdue develop successful bioinformatics workshops
The ongoing collaboration between Professors Esperanza Torres, from Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL), and Michael Gribskov from Purdue, has been fruitful. It all began when Torres, a molecular biologist, spent her sabbatical at Purdue in 2013-14. She worked closely with Professor Mary Catherine Aime, in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology on research projects focused on fungi. Torres also took bioinformatics classes taught by Professor Gribskov, with whom she shared an interest in genomics and bioinformatics research. Upon her return to Colombia, Professors Torres and Gribskov started to put together research proposals and search for funding for these proposals. Read more>>
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