Past News
Center for the Environment Sustainable Communities Seed Grant Program
November 19, 2014
C4E is offering seed grants between $5,000 and $20,000 related to the themes of the new building sustainable communities cluster hire and research initiative. Proposals are short, and are due November 24, 2014.
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NATURE AND CODE: IN-IL High School Creative Coding Competition at Purdue University
November 4, 2014
The IN-IL Creative Coding Competition is one of three high school student art competitions sponsored by the Purdue Department of Art and Design. This specific competition is co-sponsored by the Departments of Art and Design and Computer Science, as well as Purdue's Center for the Environment.
NATURE AND CODE: IN-IL High School Creative Coding Competition at Purdue University
Dr. Jennifer Freeman appointed C4E Faculty Fellow
October 14, 2014
Freeman, associate professor of health and human sciences, will help expand the center's work in the areas of toxicology and environmental health.
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Center featured in recent issue of Purdue Today
September 16, 2014
Since 2006, the Center for the Environment in Discovery Park has galvanized multidisciplinary, problem-driven research at Purdue that focuses on finding solutions to critical environmental challenges.
Purdue researcher plans Global Soundscapes Day to record sounds of the Earth
April 22, 2014
A Purdue University researcher is collaborating with partners across the globe for a special Earth Day experience on designed to capture up to 1 million natural sound recordings and upload them for preservation.
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Purdue innovation kills waterborne microorganisms, produces safer drinking water
October 24, 2013
Purdue professors Ernest "Chip" Blatchley and Bruce Applegate, have developed prototypes of a water disinfection system to take advantage of UV radiation from the sun, which is plentiful in many areas where clean water is lacking.
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Purdue student and Global Sustainability Institute representative wins Udall Scholarship
September 30, 2013
Purdue student and Global Sustainability Institute Student Representative Allison Turner celebrates winning a Morris K. Udall Scholarship with Leigh Raymond, C4E Director and Purdue's Udall Faculty Representative.
After Japan's 'multifaceted disaster,' Purdue professor sees sobering present, dismaying future
September 30, 2013
Purdue professor, Daniel Aldrich returned in August from a yearlong Fulbright research fellowship at the University of Tokyo. He studied the aftermath of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear meltdown in Fukushima.
A sculpture seeks to inspire, using a voice nature has lost.
September 5, 2013
Two 8-foot androgynous, red clay heads chirped back and forth to each other Wednesday afternoon in front of Purdue University Yue-Kong Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts.
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Study: Environmental policies matter for growing megacities
April 3, 2013
A new study shows clean-air regulations have dramatically reduced acid rain in the United States, Europe, Japan and South Korea over the past 30 years, but the opposite is true in fast-growing East Asian megacities, possibly due to lax antipollution rules or lack of enforcement. The U.S. Clean Air Act began requiring regulatory controls for vehicle emissions in the 1970s, and 1990 amendments addressed issues including acid rain. Similar steps in the European Union, Japan and South Korea over the past three decades have reduced nitrate and sulfate in rain - components contributing to acid rain, said Suresh Rao, Lee A. Reith Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and Agronomy at Purdue University.