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Themed “Giant Leaps @ Home,” Purdue University’s 2020 Homecoming celebration will take place virtually this year, Nov. 9-14. In keeping with the Protect Purdue Plan, this year’s Homecoming will forgo in-person gatherings. Instead, it offer the Purdue family around the globe an array of virtual programming that celebrates the university’s storied history and the traditions, memories, and spirit that bind us together.
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As a national spokesperson for the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, Purdue University President Mitch Daniels continues to encourage young people, specifically college students, to get out and vote during the final days leading up to the 2020 election.
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Purdue University innovators are taking cues from nature to develop 3D photodetectors for biomedical imaging. The Purdue researchers used some architectural features from spider webs to develop the technology. Spider webs typically provide excellent mechanical adaptability and damage-tolerance against various mechanical loads such as storms.
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A rectangular robot as tiny as a few human hairs can travel throughout a colon by doing back flips, Purdue engineers have demonstrated in live animal models. Why the back flips? Because the goal is to use these robots to transport drugs in humans, whose colons and other organs have rough terrain. Side flips work, too.
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Nutritional epidemiologist Regan Bailey was recently honored for her work on measuring nutritional status to optimize health by being elected as one of 100 new members of the National Academy of Medicine.
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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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Melissa Burdi, dean of the Purdue University Global School of Nursing, writes in this piece for The Conversation about ways to stay safe, especially as fall and winter approach – pushing people inside for activities.
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