Past News
Purdue, Bayer announce partnership to address regenerative agriculture on global scale
September 25, 2024
Purdue University and Bayer announced on September 19th the creation of the Coalition for Sustainable and Regenerative Agriculture, a public-private designed to help improve the soil health of farmland while additionally increasing food production.
Purdue, Bayer announce partnership to address regenerative agriculture on global scale
More than mushrooms - what do the mycologists at Purdue study?
September 25, 2024
Cathie Aime (BPP) is featured in this recent article discussing her worldly expeditions to find new fungi and mushrooms and describe their roles in the ecosystem of specialized environments.
More than mushrooms - what do the mycologists at Purdue study?
Satellites and soils: NIFA and AgSEED grants fund remote sensing data collection and machine-learning models to predict soil properties at farm-to-landscape scales
September 25, 2024
Siddhartho Paul (AGRY) is featured discussing his recently funded work creating digital soil maps of agriculture and forest lands. Digital soil maps display high-resolution, spatial soil information across a farm or landscape.
Satellites and soils: NIFA and AgSEED grants fund remote sensing data collection and machine-learning models to predict soil properties at farm-to-landscape scales
Purdue researchers acquire and analyze data through AI network that predicts maize yield
September 25, 2024
Melba Crawford (AGRY/CCE) and Mitch Tuinstra (AGRY) are featured discussing a recent study they co-authored that demonstrates the capability of a recurrent neural network. A model that teaches computers to process data using long short-term memory to predict maize yield from several remote sensing technologies and environmental and genetic data.
Purdue researchers acquire and analyze data through AI network that predicts maize yield
Purdue AI urban tree monitoring and analysis initiative to improve city life
September 19, 2024
Congratulations to Songlin Fei (FNR) and Daniel Aliaga (Comp Sci) on receiving $5 million in funding from the National Science Foundation for their uTREE (Urban Tree Resilience and Environmental Equity project that focuses on using AI to obtain information about tree density, species, location, and changes in tree counts over time. Additional ISF affiliates collaborating on this project include Brady Hardiman (FNR/EEE), Zhao Ma (FNR), Melba Crawford (CCE), Panagiota Karava (CCE), Matt Huber (ISF/EAPS), and Rejesh Kalyanam (RCAC).
Purdue AI urban tree monitoring and analysis initiative to improve city life
Farm Journal's AgDayTV College Roadshow
September 19, 2024
ISF affiliates Laura Bowling (AGRY), Dan Quinn (AGRY), Ariana Torres (HLA), and Christian Cruz (BPP) shared their research and insight during the College Roadshow with Farm Journal AgDay TV.
Research shows autonomous vehicles could understand their passengers better with ChatGPT
September 19, 2024
Ziran Wang (CCE) is featured discussing a recent study on a test autonomous vehicle (AV), testing how well real AV can use large language models to interpret commands using ChatGPT from a passenger and drive accordingly.
Research shows autonomous vehicles could understand their passengers better with ChatGPT
September Newly Issued Patents
September 19, 2024
Congratulations to Jeffrey Youngblood (ME) on his newly issued patent, "Method of Making Transparent Alumina by Hot-pressing Platelets into a Aligned Grain Microstructure."
Fulbright Scholar Program awards multiple Purdue faculty
September 19, 2024
Seven faculty from Purdue University’s West Lafayette campus and one from Purdue University Northwest have been named 2024-25 Fulbright U.S. Scholars, including ISF affiliates Andrew DeWoody (FNR) and Genell Ebbini (Liberal Arts).
Why twisters target the United States
September 11, 2024
Dan Chavas (EAPS) is featured in a PNAS Science Sessions article explaining why North America produces an abundance of tornadoes each year, whereas South America does not.