Purdue Research Foundation is launching a new series: National Academy of Inventors Fellows at Purdue. The series opens with Luna Lu, Indiana ACPA Professor in Concrete Paving and Materials Science and vice president of the Office of Industry Partnerships, whose work is redefining the future of infrastructure and energy through AI-powered Internet of Things sensor technology that enables communication with infrastructure to understand its condition. The NAI Fellows Program honors academic inventors whose collaborative, multidisciplinary research is translated into real-world technologies that benefit society.
Lorraine Corriveau, primary care clinician at the Purdue University Veterinary Hospital, explains what pet owners can do to keep their dogs and cats safe during cold winter weather.
The Psychometric Society awarded Hua Hua Chang its prestigious 2026 Career Award for Lifetime Achievement for his contributions in the field of psychometrics. Psychometrics concerns the development of psychology as a quantitative rational science, including the advancement of theory and methodology for behavioral data analysis in psychology, education, and the social and behavioral sciences generally.
Purdue alumna Claire Wolfer-Jenkins has been selected as a recipient of the 2026 Marshall Scholarship, a program that supports graduate study in the United Kingdom. Currently a global health postbaccalaureate fellow at the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies, Wolfer-Jenkins plans to pursue degrees in public policy and drug discovery as she works toward becoming a public health researcher specializing in substance use disorder.
Smart and strategic, Purdue student Jack McKenna has risen from a field of 200 to be a finalist on “Beast Games,” the Prime Video show running through Feb. 25. McKenna, given the moniker “child genius” for his youth and smarts, is vying for a $5 million winner-take-all prize.
