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Purdue wraps up its 150th anniversary celebration at Homecoming
Purdue Homecoming 2019 celebrated and thanked the University community, alumni and friends for the past year, during which the land-grant institution recognized its remarkable giant leaps while looking toward the future to address the world’s problems. Purdue’s 150th anniversary and its Giant Leaps campaign concluded Oct. 12. Homecoming included an astronaut reunion celebrating 13 of the University’s alumni who have gone into space. Homecoming photo gallery | Astronaut reunion photo gallery
Purdue's Ray Ewry Sports Engineering Center to be an homage to Olympic star, alumnus
Purdue will create a sports engineering and research center named in honor of a record-setting Olympian and Purdue graduate. The Ray Ewry Sports Engineering Center was announced Oct. 12 during the University’s Homecoming football game. The College of Engineering will advance research and learning benefits to athletes and students through the sports engineering center. More ...
Record number of Purdue students participate in income share agreement program
A record number of Purdue students have received funding for the Fall 2019 semester from the Purdue Research Foundation's Back a Boiler income share agreement program, which provides students an alternative to Federal Parent PLUS and private student loans. The number of student contracts for the current semester is up over 25% from the same time last year, with 56% of those students being first-time participants. More ...
NSF supports Purdue team developing online manufacturing education
Purdue's College of Engineering, along with colleagues in the Polytechnic Institute and the College of Education, is developing new online courses intended to contribute to the national need for well-educated engineers and technologists. The project is one of only five nationwide announced Sept. 19 by the National Science Foundation as part of the Production Engineering Education and Research (PEER) program. Training in STEM areas has become vital for a wider range of employees as industries in Indiana and across the U.S. become more dependent on rapidly changing technology. More ...
Purdue takes online engineering education to next level
Purdue is at the forefront of postgraduate learning with a new online education offering. The schools of Civil Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering are planning to offer affordable online master's programs through edX with support from Kaplan Higher Education. This is the first comprehensive engineering postgraduate curricula provided online at less than $25,000 for master's degrees. More ...
Epigenetics offers puzzling twists and turns, but also possible cancer treatments
Learning how to switch certain genes on or off — the focus of the field of epigenetics — could make cancer therapies such as chemotherapy or immunotherapy much more effective, says Purdue scientist Emily Dykhuizen. Dykhuizen and colleagues in her lab have identified a protein that is showing promise for potential therapies. More ...
Purdue Science K-12 Outreach now offering podcast
The Purdue Science K-12 Outreach program has created a podcast, the “Superheroes of Science,” which allows listeners to learn about current science research and trends in science education. The podcast was developed as a resource for K-12 science teachers and their students. Each episode highlights research done in various fields of science or science education and allows listeners to learn how the scientists got started in their fields. More ...
Supporting the mental health of military personnel, families and veterans in times of war
Warriors hate war perhaps more than anybody else. They have to see it up close and very personal. And what they see can affect their mental health, ranging from depression and anxiety to PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder, to suicidal thoughts and the potential to committing suicide. Professor Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, who studies risk and resilience in military families, was concerned about suicides among military personnel and access to mental health providers for them and their families even before serving on the Department of Defense's Mental Health Task Force in 2007. More ...
'Nanochains' could increase battery capacity, cut charging time
How long the battery of your phone or computer lasts depends on how many lithium ions can be stored in the battery's negative electrode material. Materials with a higher lithium ion storage capacity are either too heavy or the wrong shape to replace graphite, the electrode material currently used in today's batteries. Purdue scientists and engineers have introduced a potential way that these materials could be restructured into a new electrode design that would allow them to increase a battery's life span, make it more stable and shorten its charging time. More ...
Can service dogs help children with autism? This new study will find out.
As the number of children being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder continues to rise, so does the demand for a popular treatment – service dogs. While the number of service dogs being provided for children with autism is growing, there is a lack of scientific evidence on whether, or how, these dogs help. In addition, minimal research has explored how these dogs may help parents – who often face significant stress and challenges of their own. A group of researchers at the College of Veterinary Medicine is launching a new study this fall to find out. More ...
'Poor man's qubit' can solve quantum problems without going quantum
It may still be decades before quantum computers are ready to solve problems that today's classical computers aren't fast or efficient enough to solve, but the emerging "probabilistic computer" could bridge the gap between classical and quantum computing. Engineers at Purdue University and Tohoku University in Japan have built the first hardware to demonstrate how the fundamental units of what would be a probabilistic computer – called p-bits – are capable of performing a calculation that quantum computers would usually be called upon to perform. More ...
When disease threatens animals, predators might provide the remedy
When disease shows up in wild animal populations, there aren't pharmacies or vets to turn to. The best solution might actually be the one thing they spend their lives avoiding – predators. Jason Hoverman, an associate professor in Purdue's Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, has shown that biological diversity – which includes the presence of predators – can improve the health of some animal populations, and that the predators are sometimes more likely to attack infected individuals. More ...
New technique to improve ductility of ceramic materials for missiles, engines, drinking mugs
Something as simple as an electric field could soon make wartime missiles or drinking mugs easier to produce and more resilient for fracture. Purdue researchers have developed a new process to help overcome the brittle nature of ceramics and make it more ductile and durable. More ...
Want to keep a cow happy? AI, robotics could hold the answer
Even cows have emotions and a happy cow is a better milk producer than one under stress. But how do dairy farmers read an individual bovine animal not known for its facial expression amongst a herd of up to 10,000? Richard Voyles, a professor in the Purdue Polytechnic Institute, believes artificial intelligence and robotics could hold the key to giving dairy farmers in-depth data on the status of their herd, including illness or anxiety. More ...
Purdue student aims to make world, food safer on prestigious national security fellowship
Safer food and a safer world are inseparable goals for Purdue student Margaret Hegwood. Hegwood, a master’s degree candidate in biological engineering, is in Kenya this month on a prestigious Boren Fellowship for national security and strategic language studies. Hegwood received the fellowship based on an ambitious plan she proposed to the United States government for learning the Swahili language while continuing her research on beneficial, culturally appropriate adaptation of food-processing technology for Kenya's maize and peanut crops. More ...
Purdue Systemwide
Purdue Northwest reports increase in freshman class
Purdue University Northwest this fall continued to enroll more first-time freshman students and full-time students. The number of students attending college for the first time went up particularly at PNW's Westville campus, which saw a 17 percent increase in new student enrollment. Overall freshman enrollment across both the Westville and Hammond campuses is up about 4 percent compared with fall 2018, and has increased steadily over the past three years. More ...
Purdue University Fort Wayne posts increases in fall 2019 enrollment
Purdue University Fort Wayne begins the new academic year with gains in new student enrollment across the board, including new freshmen, graduate students, transfer students, and international students. Purdue Fort Wayne's total enrollment for the fall semester has reached 10,208 students. For the second year in a row, on-campus student housing is at full capacity. More ...
Purdue in the News
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Fort Wayne Journal Gazette: PFW ties physical campus to success
Forbes: How this man’s “post-retirement” degrees keep him young, vibrant and connected
Interesting Engineering: New research brings scientists one step closer to a fully functioning quantum computer
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