Diabetes can lead to ulcers that patients don’t even feel or notice until the sight of blood. And because ulcers can’t heal on their own, 14 to 24 percent of diabetics in the U.S. who experience them end up losing their toes, foot or leg.

Five of the world’s most promising young engineering scholars have been honored by Purdue Engineering as inaugural recipients of the prestigious Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellowship in recognition of their outstanding scholarly achievements and proposed innovative interdisciplinary research and its potential for broad impact on industry and society.

Purdue College of Engineering has been recognized by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP) with five MarCom awards.

Purdue faculty and staff constantly encourage students to get involved around campus, and one great new way to get involved this year was EcoMake weekend, an engineering and design competition centered on sustainability.

Purdue MEs received recognition at the ASME Conference on Smart Structures, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS2018), in San Antonio, Texas in September 2018.

Suresh V. Garimella, who has led four straight record years for Purdue University research funding, will be appointed to the National Science Board.

A Purdue University professor is leading an effort to send a CubeSat up for an attempted controlled solar sailing in Earth’s orbit.

Talk about space junk. Orbital debris from spacecraft, the defunct satellites and fragments of spent rockets left suspended in Earth’s atmosphere, are slowly making their way back to Earth. Objects usually return after a few years, but debris trapped in higher orbits can remain for more than a century.

For most, cholera comes as a mild to moderate form of diarrhea. For others, the diarrhea quickly causes dangerous fluid loss – up to a quart an hour – and has a milky appearance. Then comes hours of vomiting, and possibly death from organ failure.

You’re experiencing jaundice, abdominal pain or constipation. And by then, you may be too late. Pancreatic cancer symptoms often arrive after the cancer has already spread, making the disease one of the leading causes of cancer deaths in the U.S.