Institute for a Sustainable Future News
Purdue Research Series - A Look into Innovative and Collaborative Boilermaker Research
November 20, 2024
Purdue's Executive Vice President for Research, Karen Plaut is featured in this episode of the This is Purdue podcast discussing her career journey, interdisciplinary research, Purdue's expansion to Indianapolis, how she navigates leading Purdue's wide range of research fields, and her advice for aspiring researchers.
Purdue Research Series - A Look into Innovative and Collaborative Boilermaker Research
Purdue honors researchers with Seed for Success Acorn Awards
November 20, 2024
Congratulations to several ISF affiliates who received a 2024 Seed for Success Acorn Award, given to investigators in recognition of their accomplishments in obtaining an external sponsored award of $1 million or more. For the full list of awardees and their projects.
Purdue honors researchers with Seed for Success Acorn Awards
Showalter Trust adds four faculty honorees, funds 23 early career faculty
November 20, 2024
Congratulations to ISF affiliates Jonathan Shannahan (HSCI) and Mohit Verma (ABE) on being recently appointed as 2024 Showalter Faculty Scholars. Additional congratulations to Thivanka Muthumalage (HSCI) and Yu She (IE) on receiving 2024 Showalter Early Career Awards.
Showalter Trust adds four faculty honorees, funds 23 early career faculty
Purdue launches institute to help farmers commercialize new value-added products
November 20, 2024
Purdue's Institute for Food Production Innovation and Commercialization Director Dharmendra Mishra (Food Sci), is featured discussing what training and development support the institute is offering to agriculture producers with novel food and beverage product ideas.
Purdue launches institute to help farmers commercialize new value-added products
Purdue researchers use traffic jam theory to explain atmospheric blocking
November 20, 2024
Lei Wang (EAPS) and a team of researchers applied a traffic jam theory to explain atmospheric blocking at the 2024 US CLIVAR Blocking Workshop.
Purdue researchers use traffic jam theory to explain atmospheric blocking
Rethinking Food Waste and Understanding Consumer Choice
November 20, 2024
Breanna Ellison (Ag Econ) is featured on this episode of the Purdue Agricultural Economics Podcast sharing her insights on food conservation.
Purdue wildlife and aviation programs collaborate on deer population study
November 20, 2024
Pat Zollner (FNR) is featured in this article discussing his five-year project funded by Indiana DNR to develop better methods for monitoring the population sizes of white-tailed deer, coyotes, and turkeys.
Purdue wildlife and aviation programs collaborate on deer population study
Weathering the storm: How agribusinesses and farms can prepare for natural disasters
November 13, 2024
Laura Bowling (AGRY) is featured in this article discussing how major natural disasters like Hurricanes Helene and Milton can impact the Corn Belt causing low crop yields or even complete loss.
Weathering the storm: How agribusinesses and farms can prepare for natural disasters
New methods improve lead exposure detection at point of care
November 13, 2024
Aaron Specht (HSCI) is featured in this Medical Xpress article discussing his patent-pending technology to non-invasively measure lead and other heavy metals in patients' bones and blood to detect chronic exposure.
New methods improve lead exposure detection at point of care
Meteorite contains evidence of liquid water on Mars 742 million years ago
November 13, 2024
Marissa Tremblay (EAPS) is featured in this article discussing her research using noble gases to study the physical and chemical processes shaping the surfaces of Earth and other planets; explaining that some meteorites from Mars contain minerals that formed through interaction with liquid water while still on Mars.
Meteorite contains evidence of liquid water on Mars 742 million years ago