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Purdue’s 150th anniversary and its Giant Leaps campaign will conclude Oct. 12 with an astronaut reunion celebrating 14 of the University’s alumni who have gone into space. The public’s first glimpse of the astronauts will be during the Oct. 10 Homecoming parade as some ride the Boilermaker Special. They will join the parade grand marshal Steele Johnson, a Purdue alumnus, Olympic silver medalist, and NCAA champion in men’s diving.
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Scientists at Purdue and France’s Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale/Institut de Cancérologie de L’Ouest have discovered that glyphosate, the primary ingredient in some widely used herbicides and pesticides, can lead to breast cancer under certain conditions. The discovery is another step forward when it comes to determining how cancer starts, and how it can be prevented.
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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 among a herd of up to 10,000? Professor Richard Voyles 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.
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The head of one of the institutes within the National Institutes of Health will share experiences and insights in an Ideas Festival presentation today (Oct. 2) at Purdue. Dr. Walter J. Koroshetz, the director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and co-director of the NIH Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative, will speak at 7 p.m. in Stewart Center’s Fowler Hall.
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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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