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From lights off to recycling, here are sustainability efforts you can get involved in on campus
November 9, 2018
If you’re looking for ways to get involved with sustainability efforts on campus, it can be as simple as flipping a switch or tossing your trash in a different container.
From lights off to recycling, here are sustainability efforts you can get involved in on campus
Agricultural intelligence: Sensor gives farmers more accurate read on plant health, provides valuable crop data
November 1, 2018
A Purdue University professor has built an innovative handheld sensor that gives plant scientists and farmers a more precise way of measuring the health of crops while gathering up-to-the-minute data that state and federal officials and others will find valuable.
Agricultural intelligence: Sensor gives farmers more accurate read on plant health, provides valuable crop data
Disgust Is An Evolutionary Impulse, But Don’t Let It Drive Your Politics
October 31, 2018
Human disgust evolved as a mechanism for avoiding potential disease threats. “Disgust is widely thought to be one of the basic emotions,” said Daniel Kelly, an associate philosophy professor at Purdue University who studies disgust. “It’s a piece of human psychology that is universal.”
Disgust Is An Evolutionary Impulse, But Don’t Let It Drive Your Politics
Here’s how Purdue is improving water safety in Afghanistan
October 31, 2018
One in 10 Afghan children will die before their fifth birthday. And 20 percent of those childhood deaths will be because of diarrheal diseases arising from unsafe food and water. When an Afghan student in Herat Province told Haley Oliver that her neighbor’s children were often sick, she wanted a sample of the family’s well water. “Sure enough, it was loaded with E. coli. It was one of the most contaminated samples we found. It turns out the family’s well is right near the outdoor latrine,” said Oliver, a Purdue associate professor of food science. “That’s unfortunately quite common because there is a gap in knowledge in how disease is transmitted.” Oliver and Purdue colleagues are attempting to narrow that knowledge gap.
Striking an ethical balance in AI
October 30, 2018
While he acknowledges that humans must be mindful of how we allow rapidly advancing technology to impact our lives, Daniel Kelly does not buy into the doomsday scenarios trying the beginning of artificial intelligence (AI) to the end of humanity.
Ebert selected as interim director for CERIAS in Discovery Park
October 29, 2018
David Ebert, Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue, will serve as interim director of Discovery Park's Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, effective Nov. 1. CERIAS is widely considered as one of the world's leading centers for research and education in areas of information security that are crucial to the protection of critical computing and communication infrastructure. A multifaceted approach combines technical strength with ethical, legal, educational, economic, linguistic and communication expertise to create a cross-disciplinary team composed of six colleges and more than 20 departments across the Purdue campus.
Ebert selected as interim director for CERIAS in Discovery Park
How much danger are we in when chemicals are spilled in local rivers?
October 28, 2018
When a chemical spill in Elk River contaminated the drinking water of nearly 300,000 West Virginians in 2014, little was known about the contaminant MCHM, a type of methanol used industrially for cleaning coal. But now that it was in a local water source … is it a safety issue? Would exposure harm brain development in children? Jennifer Freeman, a Purdue University associate professor of toxicology, wanted to answer those questions, and her group conducted a toxicological assessment on the MCHM mixture that escaped Tank 396 that day.
How much danger are we in when chemicals are spilled in local rivers?
Purdue experts discuss UN climate change report
October 22, 2018
Though climate change is a recurring issue, there is little news of progress in the area. A new United Nations climate change report paints a dark future if action against climate change is not taken immediately.
Purdue University has been included on The Princeton Review’s “208 Guide to 399 Green Colleges.”
October 19, 2018
Purdue University has been included on The Princeton Review’s “208 Guide to 399 Green Colleges.”
Congratulations to Dr. Laura Zanotti for receiving the Purdue University Faculty Scholar Award!
October 18, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Laura Zanotti for receiving the Purdue University Faculty Scholar Award!