Institute for a Sustainable Future
Supporting research and partnerships to accelerate the transition to a sustainable, resilient, prosperous future.
ISF Award
ISF Awarded HDD Storage from Western Digital
Purdue's Institute for a Sustainable Future was recently awarded 1.2 Petabytes of hard disk drive (HDD) storage from data storage giant Western Digital.

Special Initiative - Sustainability Working Group
Campus Sustainability Working Group
Since fall 2024, ISF has led the work of the cross-campus Sustainability Working Group (SWG) to study recent and current sustainability practices and initiatives on campus and identify ways to enhance and improve efforts across campus, further positioning Purdue as a leader in sustainability. Sustainability, in this vision, is not the responsibility of one unit, nor is it marked by the achievement of one target. Rather, anyone can commit to improving campus sustainability. Greater success can be reached by collaborating with others. Communicating efforts and opportunities can move us forward. And to demonstrate our progress, we must calculate using agreed upon standards.
By supporting efforts large and small, every single member of the Purdue community can move us forward. In spring 2025, the group conducted the first ever campus-wide survey of student’s sustainability knowledge. A key output in summer 2025 has been the publication of Purdue’s first-ever Campus Guide to Sustainable Living. We invite you to check out this new valuable resource, read more about the guide, and be on the look out for more activities and outputs!

Recent News and Upcoming Events
In the News
- Focus on ISF's PFAS Strategic Research Team
- ISF Awarded Western Digital Data Storage
- Study Reveals How Eavesdropping Predators Develop Hunting Strategies
- ISF and Campus Sustainability Working Group Release “Campus Guide to Sustainable Living”
- Purdue's Institute for a Sustainable Future Publishes First Look at PFAS Statewide
- ISF and Campus Sustainability Working Group to Conduct Student Survey
