Treating roads for ice and snow can burden the budget and environment. Yaguang Zhang, clinical assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering and agricultural sciences education and communication, created a map of sun shadows using lidar technology that the Indiana Department of Transportation uses to more efficiently treat roads for winter conditions.
In this post, Qixin He, an assistant professor in the College of Science and member of the Purdue Institute for a Sustainable Future, discusses her recently published research “Predicting Host Range Expansion in Parasitic Mites Using a Global Mammalian-Acarine Dataset,” which appears in Nature Communications.
Registration is open for faculty to attend the April 8 Westwood Lecture. Majid Kazemian, associate professor of biochemistry in the College of Agriculture and computer science in the College of Science, will present “Drug Discovery: From In Silico Insights to In Vivo Validation” from 4:30-5:30 p.m. at Westwood, the Purdue president’s residence.
Purdue’s Mitch Daniels School of Business will bring leading voices from the National Constitution Center, the National Review Institute, the Mercatus Center, the Liberty Fund and more to West Lafayette on April 30 to have a deep discussion about free markets and morality. Aimed at business thought leaders, the Cornerstone for Business Conference is an on-campus gathering that features an opening keynote from President Emeritus of Purdue University Mitch Daniels and informed discussions of the connections between business and AI, democracy and business, markets and human progress, shareholders and stakeholders, and more.
What to watch after you’ve seen “Boilers to Mars”: the short film’s prequel. See how one of the main characters, Bobbi, first became interested in space exploration, as SpaceKids Global introduces her to all the opportunities in space — just like they do for elementary children nationwide. Discover more about SpaceKids Global’s mission and view this new video now.
