Impacting Global Sustainability
The challenges facing a world trying to keep up with a burgeoning population are immense. The depletion of natural resources, uncertainty surrounding food supply, critical climate change, and future energy production are international problems and require concentrated, interdisciplinary action.
Discovery Park’s initiatives are helping to solve these intractable problems in all four corners of the globe. From developing new strains of sorghum in Africa and building culturally-sensitive, collaborative institutes in South America to studying the effects of climate change here at home, Purdue students and researchers are intimately involved with every piece of the sustainability puzzle.
Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources (CISTAR)
CISTAR's vision is to create a transformative engineered system to convert light hydrocarbons from shale resources to chemicals and transportation fuels in smaller, modular, local, and highly networked processing plants. The CISTAR team will develop innovative process designs for economic production of liquid chemicals and transportation fuels from shale gas hydrocarbons. Researchers also will explore novel approaches for converting methane to chemical intermediates, which can then be used as a feedstock for conversion to liquid fuels.
Center for Global Food Security
With the world population expected to reach 9.6 billion by 2050, there is growing concern about meeting the rising demand for food. The Center for Global Food Security is researching the causes and consequences of food insecurity and discovering ways to feed more people across the globe.
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Institute for a Sustainable Future
Purdue University’s Institute for a Sustainable Future fosters and promotes research, partnerships, and engagement in areas including the environment, climate, food-energy-water security, and sustainability. The complex, multi-factor, and pressing nature of the challenges and opportunities in these areas requires a collaborative, transdisciplinary approach. This Institute supports the research and development needed to provide viable solutions by connecting faculty and researchers and by forging linkages between disciplines and communities within Purdue and beyond. In this way, the Institute aligns with Purdue’s Land Grant Mission of building human capital, advancing research focused on our world’s most important problems and engaging deeply with our partners.
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