"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."

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.

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.

When communities look to address water quality issues like nutrient pollution, there are an assortment of computer models to help them simulate scenarios to solve their problems.

Professor Nadia Gkritza will be honored with the Leadership Award at the 15th Annual Engineering Faculty Awards of Excellence Banquet.

The number of grain dust explosions in the United States fell to a 10-year low in 2016, but two of the incidents resulted in the first reported fatalities since 2013, according to an annual report released by Purdue University's Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering.

Professor Ivantysynova is the chair of a number of organizations that evaluate Finnish mechanical engineering research. She has made a valuable contribution to the development of mechanical engineering research at LUT.

"I want my students to leave my courses confident in their newly acquired abilities. I want them to be able to communicate their ideas and findings with a broad audience to make the biggest impact possible."

Professors Klein Ileleji, Monika Ivantysynova, Kevin Keener, Michael Ladisch, John Lumkes, Nathan Mosier, and Bernard Tao were recognized at the event honoring those who received invention and copyright disclosures, licensing deals, patents, and royalties.