The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA) and the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering at Purdue University on Nov. 27 announced a two-year, $12M contract to continue to provide direct, technical assistance to the state’s Medicaid providers. By promoting and enabling optimal use of modern health information technology, the funding will help address several clinical challenges currently impacting long-term care and the opioid crisis like patient bottlenecks, overprescribing, and unnecessary emergency room visits.

The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) awarded funding to an IE professor for a project focusing on the disparate mortality of black versus white breast cancer patients.

A Purdue IE alumna is using her industrial engineering background to make a difference in Haiti, offering hope and practical support to orphans.

At a dinner and awards ceremony on November 15, Purdue IE celebrated student scholarship recipients and honored faculty and staff.

A Purdue IE PhD student presented a research poster at a medical informatics symposium, thanks in part to two travel grants from Purdue Engineering sources.

An IE team has won a 2018 College of Engineering Staff Excellence Award and an IE staff member is a finalist.

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.