{"id":5938,"date":"2024-05-03T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/?post_type=purduetoday&#038;p=5938"},"modified":"2024-08-03T11:28:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T15:28:34","slug":"purdue-receives-1-8-million-from-department-of-defense-depscor-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/2024\/Q2\/purdue-receives-1-8-million-from-department-of-defense-depscor-grants","title":{"rendered":"Purdue receives $1.8 million from Department of Defense DEPSCoR grants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.<\/strong> \u2014 Three Purdue University research teams that specialize in artificial intelligence and machine learning will share $1.8 million as recipients of the U.S. Defense Department\u2019s Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) awards, a program designed to bolster basic research initiatives at higher educational institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All three selected Purdue projects engage with issues involving physical AI, an interdisciplinary field concerned with developing AI that intersects the virtual and physical worlds. Purdue leads efforts in this area through the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/computes\/institute-for-physical-artificial-intelligence\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Institute for Physical AI<\/a>, a pillar of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/computes\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purdue Computes<\/a>, a strategic university initiative to further scale Purdue\u2019s research and educational excellence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each team will receive up to $600,000 across a three-year period to pursue research that addresses DOD science and technology priority areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/research\/features\/stories\/purdue-receives-1-8-million-from-department-of-defense-depscor-grants\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about these AI projects on Purdue\u2019s Office of Research website.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Media are encouraged to share, post and publish this content.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About Purdue University<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Purdue University is a public research institution demonstrating excellence at scale. Ranked among top 10 public universities and with two colleges in the top four in the United States, Purdue discovers and disseminates knowledge with a quality and at a scale second to none. More than 105,000 students study at Purdue across modalities and locations, including nearly 50,000 in person on the West Lafayette campus. Committed to affordability and accessibility, Purdue\u2019s main campus has frozen tuition 13 years in a row. See how Purdue never stops in the persistent pursuit of the next giant leap \u2014 including its first comprehensive urban campus in Indianapolis, the new Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business, and Purdue Computes \u2014 at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/president\/strategic-initiatives\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/president\/strategic-initiatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. \u2014 Three Purdue University research teams that specialize in artificial intelligence and machine learning will share $1.8 million as recipients of the U.S. Defense Department\u2019s Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) awards, a program designed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"department":[],"source":[29],"purdue_today_topic":[],"coauthors":[10],"class_list":["post-5938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","source-purdue-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7672,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938\/revisions\/7672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5938"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=5938"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=5938"},{"taxonomy":"purdue_today_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/purdue_today_topic?post=5938"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}