The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have awarded Purdue a $1.11-million grant to investigate targeted drug delivery in a live colon using tumbling magnetic microrobots.

"It's a bond that exceeds campus," Tamara Markey says.

BGR leaders and their partners from Purdue’s Fusion Studio for Entertainment and Engineering invited campus partners to create pieces that could enrich new students’ experiences during select BGR events.

The center will also be supported by the Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute.

Stephan Biller, professor of Industrial Engineering and the Krannert School of Management, will be inducted into the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in Washington D.C., on October 2nd.

The Underground Infrastructure Team, part of the Division of Construction Engineering and Management at Purdue, is working with experts in Colombia and a Japanese equipment company to develop a system that replaces pipe without leaving any asbestos cement particles from the original pipe.

During head impacts and concussions, vapor bubbles form and violently collapse, creating damage to human tissue. Researchers in mechanical engineering are now one step closer to understanding these phenomena.

Purdue civil engineers developed SMART platform with Indiana Department of Transportation funding.

William Crossley, J. William Uhrig and Anastasia Vournas Head of Aeronautics and Astronautics, developed an approach that uses an operations-based model to predict emissions of future airline operations, depending on varying demand scenarios, improvement of aircraft technology, levels of biofuel utilization, and effects of biofuel pricing on what passengers pay for tickets.

Huey-Jen Jenny Su, president of National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, is leading a delegation that will visit Purdue University's campus Aug. 29-30 to celebrate the 70-year friendship between the two institutions.