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In its sixth year, Purdue Day of Giving raised $41.6 million, set the fifth straight record for a 24-hour higher education fundraising campaign and reached a cumulative total of $146.9 million in gifts for Purdue University.
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A segment of the Lafayette Meteorite that once resided at Purdue, but was on display at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago for decades, will return officially to Purdue today (April 25) during a Giant Leaps Sesquicentennial event. The meteorite will be presented at the beginning of the Ideas Festival event “What IF We Blaze a Path to Mars?” at 6:30 p.m. in Stewart Center’s Loeb Playhouse.
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The Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitats Institute is working to ensure that the first long-term settlement on other planetary bodies are safe from hazards such as a meteoroid colliding with the moon or violent sandstorms on Mars. Shirley Dyke, head of RETH Institute, said she noticed that the habitats on other planets portrayed on TV don’t look realistic. In order to keep occupants alive, a habitat system would have to be much more sophisticated, even smart.
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Computers and artificial intelligence continue to usher in major changes in the way people shop. It is relatively easy to train a robot’s brain to create a shopping list, but what about ensuring that the robotic shopper can easily tell the difference between the thousands of products in the store? Purdue researchers and experts in brain-inspired computing think part of the answer may be found in magnets.
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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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