Professor Bill Field stresses "shared responsibility" for roadway safety.

Two ABE students, Yizhou Mao and Zhengpu Chen, are members of the first-ever winning team in the NFPA Fluid Power Vehicle Challenge, advised by Professor Andrea Vacca

"The overarching goal is to improve markets for local farmers growing traditional grains and meeting the changing demands of consumers," Hamaker said. "This has the potential to improve the lives of entrepreneurs and expand the market for healthy cereal grains.

The multipurpose solar dehydrator developed by Dr. Klein Ileleji and team under the USAID Funded Feed-the-Future Innovation Lab for Postharvest Handling and Food Processing (FPL) placed among the Top 10 innovations at the Postharvest Innovation Challenge held during the recent 1st All-African Post-Harvest Congress and Exhibit.

Purdue researchers are developing technology that could lead to the early detection of cervical cancer with low-cost, easy-to-use, lateral flow test strips similar to home pregnancy tests.

"In developing countries...it's very common to see people drying crops by the roadside, on the road itself, or on the median, because it's a large hard surface," says Ileleji. "I've seen crops take up half the road in Ecuador."

A professor in the Polytechnic Institute and College of Agriculture at Purdue's West Lafayette campus, Clase is also the director of the Biotechnology Innovation and Regulatory Science (BIRS) Center and leads Purdue's Master of Science in Technology Leadership and Innovation BIRS program in Moshi, Tanzania.