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October 12, 2017

Purdue and Indiana Housing team up through NSF grant to reduce smart household energy consumption

NSF announces $3.6M to a multidisciplinary Purdue team as one of the first-ever awards through the Smart & Connected Communities program seeking to address transportation, infrastructure, health and other rural and urban challenges.

October 11, 2017

Purdue-affiliated life sciences startup wins first place and $25,000 in BioCrossroads competition

LoDos Theranostics LLC, a Purdue-affiliated life sciences startup, received the first-place prize at the New Venture Competition hosted by BioCrossroads.

October 11, 2017

Purdue innovation could provide inexpensive, clean way for US to enter $4 billion market to recover rare earth elements

New efficient and inexpensive technologies being developed at Purdue University could allow the extraction of rare earth elements, critical components of many electronics and green products, from waste coal ash.

October 10, 2017

Purdue to host first STEM education event of its kind on campus

Purdue will serve as the site for the first STEM education summit of its kind in the nation.

October 9, 2017

Single 'solitons' promising for optical technologies

Researchers are a step closer to harnessing single pulses of light called solitons, using tiny ring-shaped microresonators, in findings that could aid efforts to develop advanced sensors, high-speed optical communications and research tools.

October 7, 2017

Engineering professor first Purdue faculty to earn NIH honor

A College of Engineering professor was announced as the first Purdue faculty member to receive the National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award.

October 5, 2017

Purdue forum to examine digital challenges for manufacturing

Business leaders will meet for the Purdue Manufacturing Forum 2017 to discuss how to prepare for the new digital challenges facing industry.

October 5, 2017

Purdue professor wins Department of Defense computing award

One of the College of Engineering’s newer professors has received a large research grant from the U.S. Department of Defense for super computing resources.

October 5, 2017

Purdue interns at Indianapolis startup help develop drones for grid, inspection uses

Kevin Sheridan and Austin Williams, students at the Purdue College of Engineering, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, completed internships over the summer at Aerotronic LLC, an Indianapolis-based company developing and manufacturing drones and other unmanned aerial systems.

October 5, 2017

PathVis story featured in IEEE Spectrum

Global health experts don’t worry about if a major infectious disease outbreak will occur; it’s just a matter of when.