A study led by Purdue University’s Yaohua “Betty” Feng, an assistant professor of food science, showed that many Americans don’t wash their hands after feeding or playing with their cats and dogs and aren’t aware of the risk of contracting a foodborne illness from those activities.
PlaneEnglish, an app-based aviation radio simulator that helps pilots become more proficient in communication, has a new companion manual that provides more in-depth content so pilots can master the mic even faster.
Michael Hingson, a blind internationally acclaimed public speaker, is joining Independence Science – a Purdue University-affiliated company – to inspire blind and low-vision students to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics professions.
A $2 million grant from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health to Neurodon, a Purdue University-affiliated startup, will help fast-track molecules that could improve memory and reduce Alzheimer’s disease neurodegeneration.
Songlin Fei, a forest ecologist in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, has been named the Dean’s Chair of Remote Sensing at Purdue University.
Energy Harness Corp., which has an office in the Purdue Research Park of Indianapolis, created a device that attaches to ceiling grids and uses UVC light to clean and circulate air.
Purdue University’s Zhong-Yin Zhang’s team has discovered a novel “phosphatase cascade” that plays a critical role in pancreas, liver, kidney, lung, breast, prostate, brain and other types of cancers.
Brock Harpur, assistant professor of entomology, is the recent co-recipient of a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) CARE grant that will help beekeepers improve the health and productivity of their apiaries.
A Purdue University-led study is the first to show medics successfully performing surgery in life-like simulations of these war zones by receiving guidance from surgeons through an augmented reality headset. The work is joint with Purdue’s School of Industrial Engineering and the Department of Computer Science.
Briony Horgan, associate professor of earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences at Purdue University, is working to determine whether we are alone in the universe, or if life once existed on other planets such as Mars.