The Purdue School of Nursing has embraced interprofessional education, or IPE, to both better prepare its students and push the boundaries of its research to improve patient care. Purdue Nursing faculty includes a sociologist and an engineer as well as psychologists, statisticians and public policymakers. Dr. Sara McComb, professor of nursing and industrial engineering, joined its faculty in 2011 as part of this effort.

The American Journal of Surgery published an article by HEAL third-year PhD student Jackie Cha.

The Purdue Systems Collaboratory (PSC) recently selected graduate students representing three Purdue colleges to inaugurate its cross-disciplinary Systems Fellows Program.

Wenzhuo Wu and co-authors won a first-place poster award at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) annual Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) poster session for their poster titled “Electrochemical Manufacturing Process”.

The Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) named a Purdue IE alumna as the 2019 Indiana Teacher of the Year.

HEAL undergraduate researcher Xiayu Cai completed the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program this summer and presented her research at its research symposium.

3rd Street Market offers Purdue’s newest “frozen yogurt experience” – FroYo XPress, launched this month by three Purdue seniors. This culminates a three-year process they started as freshmen to make a dairy-free, all-natural product conveniently available to Purdue students.

At the recent Human Factors & Ergonomics Society (HFES) International Annual Meeting, the Purdue student chapter won a chapter award, and three of its members won a user experience competition.

Today's manufacturers struggle to keep pace with rapid changes in technology because of the inability to adapt and the new skills required of their workforce. Simulating factory settings with new technologies before they are available would help manufacturers assess business success and risks, offset costs, scale efforts for training workers and stay competitive.

Heart surgery can be traumatic for patients. Having to continuously monitor your status without a doctor when you are back home can be even scarier. Imagine being able to do that with a simple sticker applied to your body. Purdue University researchers have advanced a sticker solution moving it several steps closer to reality. The research was recently published in ACS Advanced Materials and Interfaces.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded funding to a Purdue IE professor for his research on piezoelectric nanomaterials.

A Purdue IE undergraduate student invented a massaging backpack and co-founded a start-up company with his parents to produce it.

A new study suggests the power industry is underestimating how climate change could affect the long-term demand for electricity in the United States.

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