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Collaborative Research With Purdue Polytechnic High Schools: Documenting Student Impact
Purdue University’s College of Education, the Purdue Polytechnic Institute and Purdue University Online are partnering to co-fund collaborative research projects at three campuses of the Purdue Polytechnic High Schools as the PPHS Collaborative Research Projects Initiative.
GeniPhys secures $6 million in Series A funding
GeniPhys, a company founded by Purdue University biomedical engineering professor Sherry Harbin, has raised a $6 million Series A round. The funding will support the launch of the company’s initial product into the market, expand its team, and invest in manufacturing and regulatory capabilities.
NutraMaize receives $650,000 USDA grant to scale research on orange corn that improves poultry health and egg yolk pigmentation
NutraMaize, an agriculture company whose nutritionally enhanced orange corn is currently marketed through a line of premium milled products under the brand Professor Torbert’s Orange Corn, has received a two-year, $650,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to demonstrate the health and pigmentation benefits of feeding orange corn to poultry on a commercial scale.
Purdue launches oneAPI Center of Excellence to advance AI and HPC teaching in the US
Purdue University will establish a oneAPI Center of Excellence on its West Lafayette campus. Facilitated through Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the center will take students’ original artificial intelligence and high-performance computing research projects to the next level through teaching oneAPI in the classroom.
Purdue’s College of Agriculture rises in national and international rankings
Purdue University’s College of Agriculture has been recognized as the No. 3 college of agriculture in North America and No. 5 in the world in the 2023 QS World University Rankings.
