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Purdue Student Government is sponsoring a visit to Purdue’s West Lafayette campus by Howard Schultz, an American businessman and former CEO of Starbucks, at 1 p.m. today (Feb. 7). A livestream will be shown in Loeb Playhouse, open to students, faculty, staff and the general public.
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The United Nations estimates that more than 8 million tons of plastics flow into the oceans each year. A new chemical conversion process could transform the world’s polyolefin waste, a form of plastic, into useful products, such as clean fuels and other items.
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What if many of our health care issues could be solved not with drugs but with engineering? It just might be possible. “What IF We Could Engineer Better Health?” was the question explored by Miles O’Brien, science correspondent for “PBS NewsHour,” and Dr. Ali Rezai, director of the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute at West Virginia University, during a Jan. 31 event. O’Brien and Rezai also highlighted complementary research conducted at Purdue. The event was part of Purdue’s Ideas Festival.
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“Orange corn,” a more nutritious, naturally bred variety of corn, is now available in the U.S. markets through Purdue-affiliated startup NutraMaize LLC. Torbert Rocheford, the Patterson Endowed Chair in Translational Genomics for Crop Improvement in the Purdue College of Agriculture’s Department of Agronomy, used a process known as biofortification to naturally increase the amount of provitamin A carotenoids in corn, making the corn more nutritious, and create a rich orange color.
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Here is a sampling of recent news reports about Purdue from media across the nation and the world. | |
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