VeoRide Inc., a Purdue student startup, is developing a sustainable and smart bike share program that allows users to retrieve and return a bike from and to the nearest bike rack to improve convenience, comfort and affordability of bike share experiences.
The National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center has awarded Purdue University’s Young Kim, associate professor with the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, and Md Munirul Haque, research scientist with the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering, and their interdisciplinary research team, a $385,000, two-year grant to improve mobile testing for anemia in resource-limited settings.
To address the challenges associated with agricultural data management, a Purdue University associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering, Dharmendra Saraswat, has launched an innovative web-based tool named the Purdue Agricultural Data Engine (PADE).
PhD student Seungjae Lee was recently named recipient of the prestigious American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Grant-in-Aid Award for 2017-2018.
Boiler Gold Rush is way more than just an orientation program for incoming freshman. Instead of a typical information-distributing snooze fest, BGR fine-tuned a week-long adventure to fit the needs of every new college student. For some students, this experience was the first time exploring a campus they will call home for the next four years.
In a potential breakthrough for the treatment of obesity and diabetes, Purdue University scientists have found a way to deliver a drug directly to stored white fat cells to turn them into more easily burned brown fat cells.
Purdue University in September will hold its first Symposium on Applied Spectroscopy and Photonics: From Cells to Cosmos, attracting top researchers in the field, with subjects ranging from Mars exploration to biomedical engineering.