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August 2018

Purdue Gateway ArchPurdue sets records for giving, research funding

Purdue University on July 10 announced record totals in both giving to Purdue and in sponsored research funding for the 2018 fiscal year, which ended June 30. Giving to Purdue hit a record $451.5 million, the first time that contributors have contributed more than $400 million to the University in one year. Sponsored research programs also set a record for the 2018 fiscal year with $454.5 million, which was an increase of $36 million over the previous year. More ...

This is one stat where Purdue is delighted to be at the bottom

Purdue has sunk to the bottom of the Big Ten in an important measure for students and their families. In just seven years, Purdue has gone from the second-highest predominant room and board rates among Big Ten institutions to the lowest. More ...

Discovery Park to lead new Innovation Hub for Connected and Autonomous Transportation Technologies

Purdue's Discovery Park will lead a nationwide partnership focusing on the expanding research field of connected and autonomous vehicles. The Innovation Hub for Connected and Autonomous Transportation Technologies will bring together the University, public agencies and private partners in a joint research effort. More ...

Purdue named one of America's best colleges for veterans

Purdue has been named one of the best colleges in the country for military veterans by College Consensus. The website looks at rankings in national publications such as The Wall Street Journal and U.S. News & World Report and combines them with verified student reviews. More ...

Student-run mobile health initiative is tackling opioid crisis

Purdue students and faculty have joined the fight against the state's opioid crisis. A group of three faculty and 20 student volunteers from the colleges of Pharmacy, Engineering, and Health and Human Sciences have created BoilerWoRx, a mobile health initiative intended to reach each of Indiana's 92 counties. More ...

New development in 3D super-resolution imaging gives insight on Alzheimer's disease

One major problem with understanding Alzheimer's disease is not being able to clearly see why the disease starts. A super-resolution "nanoscope" developed by Purdue researchers now provides a 3D view of brain molecules with 10 times greater detail. This imaging technique could help reveal how the disease progresses and where new treatments could intervene. More ...

Tongcang Li and Jonghoon AhnWorld's fastest man-made spinning object could help study quantum mechanics

Researchers have created the fastest man-made rotor in the world, which they believe will help them study quantum mechanics. At more than 60 billion revolutions per minute, this machine is more than 100,000 times faster than a high-speed dental drill. More ...

Purdue researchers developing device that detects mosquito-borne diseases

A startup created by Purdue professors is developing a sensor that can detect dangerous mosquito-borne tropical diseases faster and at a lower cost than current methods, giving health officials time to take action before the viruses are transmitted to humans. More ...

Metal too 'gummy' to cut? Draw on it with a Sharpie or glue stick, science says

Your everyday permanent markers, glue sticks and packing tape may offer a surprisingly low-tech solution to a long-standing nuisance in the manufacturing industry: Making soft and ductile, or so-called "gummy" metals easier to cut. More ...

Early puberty in white adolescent boys increases substance use risk

White adolescent boys experiencing early puberty are at higher risk for substance use than later developing boys, a new Purdue study finds. The new finding suggests that brain-related testosterone activity contributes to an increased risk of substance use more than an earlier appearance of maturity and accompanying social pressures in early pubescent white boys. More ...

Tiny electronic chip provides big boost to treat brain and central nervous system disorders

Purdue researchers have created an electronic chip that may provide improved support for the hundreds of millions of people worldwide the World Health Organization says are affected by neurological disorders. The Purdue researchers developed an electronic chip that can read signals from several nerve endings and wirelessly transmit them without needing a battery or any other component. Energy is created by an on-chip antenna similar to the technology used to wirelessly charge smartphones. More ...

Future electronic components to be printed like newspapers

A new manufacturing technique uses a process similar to newspaper printing to form smoother and more flexible metals for making ultrafast electronic devices. The low-cost process, developed by Purdue researchers, combines tools already used in industry for manufacturing metals on a large scale, but uses the speed and precision of roll-to-roll newspaper printing to remove a couple of fabrication barriers in making electronics faster than they are today. More ...

Daniel Szymanski with model plant ArabidopsisStudy finds key to plant growth control mechanism

A Purdue study has mapped a complex series of pathways that control the shape of plant cells. The findings are an important step toward customizing how plants grow to suit particular agronomic needs and improving the quality of the cotton grown in the United States. More ...

Purdue students receive Fulbright grants

Six recent Purdue graduates have won Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants and will spend the 2018-19 academic year in various parts of Asia or Europe to teach or conduct research. More ...

Purdue aerospace class flies NASA experiment to space aboard Blue Origin rocket

A Purdue aeronautics and astronautics class successfully tested a zero-gravity flight experiment on Blue Origin's latest suborbital rocket, New Shepard. Professor Steven Collicott and his Zero-Gravity Flight Experiment class designed their payload on the July 18 flight from a private location in Texas, to test predictions for how liquid forms droplets or plugs in small tubes in weightlessness, such as in the condenser of a heat transfer loop in a spacecraft. More ...

Purdue Systemwide

Purdue Northwest's College of Nursing earns national recognition

Purdue University Northwest's College of Nursing has been named one of 16 "Centers of Excellence" by the National League for Nursing. The recognition is given to nursing programs that demonstrate sustained excellence in faculty development, nursing education research, and in student learning and professional development. A four-year designation, PNW was previously named a center of excellence in 2014. More ...

Purdue Northwest approved for final year of NCAA II membership process

Purdue University Northwest athletics moved closer to completing the NCAA Division II membership process after the NCAA on July 13 approved advancing the Pride into its third and final provisional year. More ...

Purdue Fort Wayne to launch 19 new faculty searches

Purdue University Fort Wayne has authorized the launch of strategic searches to fill 19 new faculty positions for the 2019-20 academic year. The positions were chosen specifically to align with student demand and the needs of the workforce and economy in the region and for several new degrees being offered. More ...

Purdue in the News

Washington Post: Airbnb benefits local economies. But mainly in white neighborhoods, study finds

R&D Magazine: Electronic stickers to streamline large-scale Internet of Things

Scienmag: New data collection technology may help small airports improve operations counts

WLFI: First time procedure at Purdue small animal hospital saves a cat

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