Spend any time at all roaming the labs and libraries at Purdue, and you’ll come away with a sense that Purdue faculty are studying just about everything. From basic research on tiny cells to analysis of the most fundamental laws of the universe, faculty are hard at work, solving the most challenging problems and puzzles […]
There’s a common narrative that exists about the economy and the planet. If we try to pursue the former, it will hurt the latter — and vice versa. But Jeff Dukes, professor and director of the Purdue Climate Change Research Center (PCCRC) tells us that this is a false choice. “The potential in many cases […]
The globe-spanning, heart-pounding, life-saving work of academic field research It’s easy to believe that academic research is all about paging through dusty books or carefully pouring colorful liquids from test tube to beaker. And yes, professors love their libraries and labs. But it’s far from the whole picture. It turns out that some of Purdue’s […]
What does it take to get to a breakthrough? Purdue researchers share the highs and heartbreaks of their work. In an unassuming office tucked away in the Veterinary Pathology Building, assistant professor Tiffany Lyle is dreaming big. She’s spent her entire career trying to crack cancer’s code, and right now, she’s working on a […]
Purdue researchers come together to address autism Imagine trying to improve the diagnosis, intervention, and community support for a condition that often does not look the same from one person to the next. “If you’ve met one individual with autism, you’ve met one individual with autism,” is a widely referenced quote by Stephen Shore, an […]
It’s easy to be cynical these days. And yet despite the very real problems we face in our world — war, pandemics, climate change — an enormous amount of exceptionally powerful and positive work is happening across the country and around the world. We may live in challenging times, but human ingenuity remains high. In […]
My eight-month mission in simulated space exploration It was around 1:00 a.m., and we were huddled in a circle just outside our rooms. The cold nights were nothing new. We’ve been awakened by the ruckus of strong winds flapping our habitat’s vinyl covering against its metal frame. The winds of this storm were the strongest we […]
