 Purdue is a global university built on interdisciplinary research that embraces the concept of "Discovery with Delivery." With a focus on student access, success and diversity, Purdue also has one of the largest international student populations of any public university.
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Discovery Park is the crown jewel of Purdue University. It is home to the university's
interdisciplinary research programs and a place where scientists and students work
to turn today's visions into tomorrow's reality. Centers focus on research in areas
ranging from health-care engineering, nanotechnology, life sciences and cyber infrastructure,
to climate change, entrepreneurship, cancer diagnosis, homeland security and alternative
energy. » READ MORE |
Purdue Research Park, an award-winning and nationally acclaimed business incubator,
is creating jobs and opportunities based on discovery bubbling over from the university
and other labs. The 725-acre park has 147 companies, 90 of which are tech-related
companies sharing common ground, employs nearly 3,000 people and works to find solutions
in such areas as the efficient production of ethanol, nerve regeneration for paraplegics,
and other medical technology areas. » READ MORE
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Turkey, the world's fourth largest city with more than 11 million residents, is at high risk for a devastating
earthquake. Purdue civil engineers have proposed building a satellite city that
would serve as place of refuge and a way to keep the nation's economy stable. Researchers
in Purdue's Computer Graphics Technology program developed a 3-D fly-through animation
of what the new city might look like. » READ MORE |
Imagine a network of cell phones harnessed to prevent nuclear terrorism. They track
radiation in densely populated areas. Such a system could blanket the nation with
millions of cell phones equipped with radiation sensors able to detect even light
residues of radioactive material. Because cell phones already contain global positioning
locators, the network of phones would serve as a tracking system. » READ MORE |
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As a professor of food science at Purdue, Philip Nelson spent years perfecting the primary
method that today allows many juices and other liquid foods to be safely processed,
packaged and shipped around the world in mass quantities. For this discovery and work related to
the process—called aseptic processing—Nelson was awarded the 2007 World Food Prize, regarded as agriculture's equivalent to the
Nobel Prize.
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Purdue is the world's largest user of distributed computing, which captures computer
cycles that would otherwise go wasted on more than 7,000 computers. Scientists use
these computer cycles for work on chemical structures, bioinformatics, high-energy
physics, and to create scientific animations. Purdue has enough unused cycles that, through a project funded in part by the National
Science Foundation, it is powering scientific research at other institutions as
well.
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Global warming will affect more than temperature. Purdue researchers have determined the risk each country faces based on its level of poverty, wealth and population. It is the first step in evaluating the socioeconomic effects of climate change.
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