NASA's Bolden helps Purdue announce 'Systems Collaboratory'
NASA administrator Charles Bolden on Friday (Sept. 25) helped kick off the Purdue Systems Collaboratory aimed at integrating multidisciplinary teaching and research stressing the "convergence of knowledge" in problem solving.
Bolden spoke at the ceremony to announce the initiative in the atrium of the Krach Leadership Center.
The Collaboratory's approach leverages Purdue's strengths in the area of complex systems.
(PHOTO:) Provost Deba Dutta, NASA administrator Charles Bolden and Abhijit Deshmukh, head of the School of Industrial Engineering, at the kickoff of the Purdue Systems Collaboratory, which is aimed at integrating multidisciplinary teaching and research stressing the "convergence of knowledge" in problem solving. (Purdue University photo/John Underwood)
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