Thank you for continuing to support the Indiana Blood Center through our bi-monthly drives. November 3 we had 22 people show up to fill 20 appointment slots and the vampires were able to extract 17 units of blood. Each unit represents three opportunities to save a life. And you have their "undying gratitude"!

Raymond "Studie" Red Corn won the 3MT (Three Minute Thesis) competition at the ESE Symposium on October 20. The competition was part of the annual Purdue Ecological Sciences and Engineering symposium "#Science: Effective Interdisciplinary Communication." The 3MT competition, started at the University of Queensland, is a research communication competition that challenges grad students to communicate the importance of their research without the use of props or discipline-specific jargon. Congratulations, Studie!

Maha Awards

Maha Ph.D. student Enrique Busquets won the Best Student Paper Award at the 9^th JFPS International Symposium on Fluid Power in Japan. His winning paper is entitled “The World’s First Displacement-Controlled Excavator Prototype with Pump Switching- A Study of the Architecture and Control.” Congratulations Enrique!

New Faces at Maha

Dongyun Wang from Zhejiang Normal University in China will be joining the Maha team for the coming year. 

The Visiting Scholars Committee hosted a lab tour and meeting for ABE visiting scholars and post docs on October 30, 2014. Twenty-two visiting scholars and one post doc participated in the activity. The visiting scholars enjoyed guided tours in labs located in the Nelson Hall of Food Science of four ABE faculty members (Drs. Osvaldo Campanella, Ganesan Narsimhan, Kevin Keener, and Martin Okos).

After the lab tour, the visiting scholars and the post doc gathered in the ABE building and attended a presentation by Dr. Richard Stroshine, who gave an overview of the undergraduate programs in ABE. The presentation was followed by a social time and pizza party. The meeting attendees introduced themselves. Four members of the ABE Visiting Scholars Committee (Kathy Moore, Gail Biberstine, and Drs. Klein Ileleji and Jiqin Ni) also joined the group and introduced their work. The visiting scholars and post doc appreciated the opportunity to interact and network with people from different parts of the world as well as with ABE faculty members Drs. Sadegh Satari, Dennis Buckmaster, Richard Stroshine, and Jiqin Ni during the social time.

Graduate student Mine Eren explains rheology in Dr. Campanellaâs lab 

Graduate students Yuan Lyu and Ning Xiang guided the tour in Dr. Narsimhan’s lab  

Lab Manager Jean Jensen shows the new oil-free deep fryer in Dr. Keener’s lab

Graduate student Amudhan Ponrajan demonstrates the research equipment in Dr. Okos’ lab

Dr. Stroshine gives an overview of ABE’s undergraduate program

Graduate Program Administrator Gail Biberstine explains some administrative processes related to visiting scholars

Visiting scholar Dr. Weihua Xiao of China Agricultural University, China, introduces herself and her work