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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.

Rethinking Food Waste and Understanding Consumer Choice

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