Degree in clean energy to be offered at IUPUI
The bachelor’s in energy engineering and technology is believed to be one of only a handful of such programs offered around the country.
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Purdue cancels $28 million coal-fired power plant
The school's board of trustees voted Friday morning to cancel the $28 million project for the Wade Utility Plant based on financial and regulatory concerns.
Purdue poised to cancel coal-fired power plant
Purdue University is moving to call off plans for a new coal-fired power unit that had been strongly opposed by environmental activists.
Life sciences to drive Purdue’s next decade of building
Over the past 10 years, Purdue University has built Discovery Park into a thriving research and business incubation center, launching more than 30 companies and hosting dozens more. Now Purdue will spend more than $164 million to construct a Life and Health Sciences Quadrangle next to Discovery Park.
Indiana companies prepping for burst of acquisitions
Conditions are ripe for a barrage of mergers and acquisitions to take place this year.
Purdue planning new campus residence hall
Purdue University officials are pushing ahead with plans for a new campus residence hall that would house between 200 and 300 students and include a cafe and retail space.
Lilly Endowment awards Purdue center $6.3M
A Purdue University-based institute that aids military families whose lives have been disrupted by a relative's deployment overseas has won a $6.3 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to boost its mission.
Purdue website calculates asteroid damage
The site is “scientifically accurate enough” to be used by the Department of Homeland Security and NASA, but friendly enough for elementary school students.
More than 500 employees take Purdue early-retirement plan
The plan, approved by Purdue’s Board of Trustees on Aug. 30, was designed to reduce payroll costs and avoid involuntary layoffs.
Purdue developing oil spill website
Purdue University is developing a website with more than 30,000 hours of underwater video from the BP oil spill. More than 400 videos shot by 14 remotely operated underwater vehicles are on the site so far.
Purdue Tech Center expands by 12,000 square feet
A $2.2 million addition to the Purdue Technology Center is expected to help attract high-tech jobs to northwest Indiana.
Indiana commerce agency, Purdue plan California office
Officials say the Silicon Valley office will focus on attracting California companies to move to Indiana and to sell venture capitalists on ideas and research generated by Purdue faculty and entrepreneurs.
Purdue gives its image a facelift with new slogan
The university's new branding campaign is built around the words "We are Purdue. Makers, all." Officials say the slogan aims to capture Purdue's land-grant mission as well as its athletic and academic achievements.
Purdue board OKs merit pay, bonuses, premium hike
Some Purdue University employees will get pay raises and bonuses, but all of them will pay higher health insurance premiums.
Purdue pay freeze could end soon for some
Purdue President France Cordova will ask university trustees to approve 1.5-percent merit raises for some employees, providing them with their first pay increase in more than two years.
New Purdue smoking policy sparks complaints
The policy limits smoking to 22 designated areas across campus, where on at least a couple occasions overfilled receptacles have caught fire.
Chamber: State universities need to be more efficient
A new study shows Indiana’s public universities vary widely in how much money they spend to educate and graduate students, and that they have room for improvement relative to peer institutions.
Purdue scientist shares chemistry Nobel prize
Ei-ichi Negishi, 75, a chemistry professor at Purdue University, helped develop chemical methods widely used to make potential cancer drugs and other medicines, as well as slimmed-down computer screens.
Purdue hosts winemaking, grape-growing workshop
An Oct. 13 workshop will offer tours of Purdue University's vineyard at Meigs Farm during which participants will learn the basics of juice and wine quality control. The workshop is run by the school's Wine Grape Action Team, a group that aims to help Indiana vintners and wine grape growers.
Purdue president to discuss research with VP Biden
France Cordova is one of six university presidents who will take part in Tuesday's gathering to fill Vice President Joe Biden in on research that's being funded by the National Science Foundation and other federal agencies.