WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The Purdue Research Foundation honored 44 Purdue University faculty and staff at its annual Inventors' Recognition Dinner for their contributions to research, development and commercialization of new discoveries. "For the sixth year in a row, the Purdue Research Foundation is proud to recognize the inventors...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The International Economic Development Council awarded the Purdue Research Foundation with three 2008 IEDC Excellence in Economic Development Awards at its annual conference in Atlanta. The IEDC is the largest professional association of economic development practitioners in the world, with members in the United States,...
NEW ALBANY, Ind. -- Purdue University officials and local dignitaries have dedicated the 40,000-square-foot Purdue Technology Center of Southeast Indiana. The Purdue Technology Center of Southeast Indiana is one of four Purdue Research Park centers around the state that serve as incubators for startup or expanding companies. It also...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Roads can be a deathtrap for animals trying to hop, fly, or crawl across the blacktop. To find out just how dangerous roadways are for wildlife, scientists from Purdue University in Indiana took on a gross job. For 17 months, they counted roadkill, tallying up thousands of...
By Jeffrey Rake THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL MANHATTAN -- Suzie Fritz is confident the libero position is still in good hands, even after Kansas State's all-time leader in digs, Angie Lastra, graduated in the spring. "But I don't sleep as well at night," said Fritz, entering...
International Beryllium Corporation (TSX VENTURE: IB) ("IB") is pleased to announce that it has signed a collaborative research agreement (the "Agreement") with Purdue University ("Purdue") to advance the university's existing nuclear fuels research program and to develop a new type of beryllium oxide nuclear fuel that is longer lasting, more...
SHOE LEATHER: Ron Hunter, who coaches basketball at Indiana University--Purdue University Indianapolis, is taking his players to Nigeria this month to hold basketball clinics and to deliver nearly 200,000 pairs of shoes. This past season, Hunter responded to a challenge from Samaritan's Feet by coaching a game barefoot to encourage...
WEST LAFAYETTE, IN -- Online registration and information about the "Dollars & Sense of Going Green" Conference are now available at www.greenwoodseminar.com. The Web site includes an overview of the program, plus details about individual presentations examining the state of the green building products movement in North America. The...
Beck Ag announces the new Word of Mouth Marketing WOMM Award. The award will be presented to the organization whose WOMM project has been determined to be the most effective by a veteran panel of third-party judges at Purdue University's "National Conference for Agribusiness," in November. To view the criteria...
PURDUE UNIVERSITY (Ind.) has received from Engineered Software Inc. $25,000 worth of software licenses and technical support for its College of Technology.
SAN DIEGO -- Jerry Woodall, National Medal of Technology Laureate and Barry M. and Patricia L. Epstein Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, announced at the SNS Future in Review FiRe technology conference, held here May 20-23, that he has developed a means of providing supplemental...
WEST LAFAYETTE, IN -- The state of the green building products movement in North America is the focus of a conference scheduled for Oct. 27 and 28 at the Downtown Sheraton Hotel in Indianapolis, IN. "The Dollars and Sense of Going Green" represents a unique summit for hardwood lumber...
SME is teaming up with a technical engagement group from Purdue University on the development of a Green Manufacturing Skills/Specialist Certificate Program. After completion of an extensive competency and outcome assessment by SME Certification, this program could lead to a full-blown, professional certification program in the area of green manufacturing....
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Big league hitters will tell you that a fastball rises, or that it has "hop." A Purdue University professor is not so sure. The physics of baseball can throw fans a curveball, says a professor of health and kinesiology at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. "What...
The Center for Food and Agricultural Business at Purdue University names Megan Sheridan as Mktg Mgr. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Prior to joining the Center, Sheridan served as the Comms Dir at the National Swine Registry and as a Comms Coordinator at Purdue.
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-6 May 2008-Dell selected by Purdue University for high-performance computing clusterC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com A new high-performance computing cluster HPCC from computer company Dell Inc (Nasdaq:DELL), has been selected by Purdue University, reportedly providing the largest HPCC on campus at any school in the Big 10 Conference outside...
EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED AT Purdue University's new hydrogen facility aim to help NASA develop rockets faster and less expensively for future missions to Mars and the moon. A more efficient cooling mechanism could improve performance and reduce the need for costly overhauls, said William Anderson, an associate professor in Purdue's School...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED AT Purdue University's new hydrogen facility aim to help NASA develop rockets faster and less expensively for future missions to Mars and the moon. A more efficient cooling mechanism could improve performance and reduce the need for...
Dr. Richard P. Vine and Ellen M. Butz Harkness founded Vintage Winery Consuitants in January. Based in Bloom-ington, Ind., the firm aims to support onsite vintner efforts in pursuit of efficiently and effectively producing quality wines to meet contemporary consumer demand. Vine is a retired professor of enology at Purdue...
The Center for Food and Agricultural Business at Purdue University names Megan Sheridan as Mktg Mgr. She had been with the National Swine Registry and Purdue. Sheridan will manage the marketing campaigns for various professional development programs, as well as the overall marketing strategy for the center.