Category: Archive

C4E leadership update

I want to share that Jennifer L. Freeman, Professor of Toxicology in the School of Health Sciences, will serve as the Interim Director of the Center for the Environment. She succeeds center director Tim Filley, who is leaving Purdue to launch a new environment and sustainability initiative at the University of Oklahoma.

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Breakthrough in reverse osmosis may lead to most energy-efficient seawater desalination ever

Purdue University engineers have developed a variant of the seawater desalination process called “batch reverse osmosis,” which promises better energy efficiency, longer-lasting equipment and the ability to process water of much higher salinity.

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Dead lithium batteries pulled from hard disk drives, electric vehicles could find new life through process that recycles critical rare-earth elements

American Resources Corp. and Purdue University have teamed to advance an environmentally safer method that recycles rare-earth metals to advance clean energy electronic technologies used in hard disk drives, electric vehicles, wind turbines and other electronics.

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Student’s research helps watermelon growers find sweet success

In his multi-year project, Jacob Pecenka, a Ph.D. student in entomology, evaluated how an integrated pest management approach to growing watermelons in Indiana affected the ability of bees to provide pollination.

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Lowering the costs of using solar-powered electricity when it’s not sunny

Inspired by a rare compound found in a shrub native to North America, Mingji Dai, professor of chemistry and a scientist at the Purdue University Center for Cancer Research, studied the compound and discovered a cost-effective and efficient way to synthesize it in the lab.

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Purdue researchers join Rolls-Royce, Carnegie Mellon network to create cyber-resilient systems

Proposed research at Purdue University is developing innovative solutions using artificial intelligence to enhance the security of current and future Rolls-Royce platforms powered by the company’s propulsion systems.

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Monkeys are less cuddly with each other when dealing with an infection, study finds

Anthropologist Brandi Wren’s research reveals that monkeys suffering from certain gastrointestinal parasites may not participate in grooming as much as infection-free monkeys.

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‘Undruggable’ cancer protein becomes druggable, thanks to shrub

nspired by a rare compound found in a shrub native to North America, Mingji Dai, professor of chemistry and a scientist at the Purdue University Center for Cancer Research, studied the compound and discovered a cost-effective and efficient way to synthesize it in the lab.

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Essential oils restore insecticide effectiveness against bed bugs

Purdue University researchers have uncovered mechanisms that make plant-based essential oils lethal for bed bugs especially in combination with synthetics, offering new options for control of this pest.

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Center for Secure Microelectronics Ecosystem launched at Purdue with TSMC, Synopsys

Purdue University has launched the Center for Secure Microelectronics Ecosystem (CSME) with support from industry partners and a U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)-funded workforce development program.

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