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 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.
A $2.2 million addition to the Purdue Technology Center is expected to help attract high-tech jobs to northwest Indiana.
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.
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.
Some Purdue University employees will get pay raises and bonuses, but all of them will pay higher health insurance premiums.
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.
The policy limits smoking to 22 designated areas across campus, where on at least a couple occasions overfilled receptacles have caught fire.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Three separate colleges will hold classes in Hancock County—if a business-led education alliance can finance the space. The Hancock Community Education Alliance has lined up a vacant retail building on State Road 9 in hopes that Ball State, Purdue and Vincennes universities can offer classes next spring.
Notre Dame, Purdue and Indiana all ranked on the list, which was dominated by American universities.
Indiana University had a license or two to print money from the commercialization of its technology over the last year—and did it ever. While Purdue University didn’t collect as much in royalties from commercialization, it pulled down record levels of research grants.
Purdue’s enrollment figures show that it has 74,759 students at its five campuses and various technology program sites around Indiana.
Purdue's Center for the Environment and the Chinese Academy of Sciences will use their partnership to focus on the impact of population growth and urbanization in the two nations.
University will spend nearly $70 million to construct health and life science research facilities, including a drug-discovery lab, in West Lafayette.
Officials are expecting up to 500 total professors and staff members who are at least 60 to leave their jobs.
In the last 10 years, Indiana’s major research universities—Indiana and Purdue—have nearly doubled their
science-based research budgets, to a total of $895 million. Yet Indiana’s public universities still run in the middle
of the pack nationally.
A university committee said an early-retirement offer could reduce salary and benefit costs, and eliminate the need for layoffs.