US: Data center project to test crop-picking robots
Purdue University Northwest will test out crop-picking robots at a new greenhouse at the Digital Crossroads Data Center in Hammond.
A team of Purdue University Northwest College of Technology researchers have landed more than $1 million in federal and private funding to test the new agricultural technology, which has the potential to help farmers facing labor shortages. Machine operators would remotely pick tomatoes, strawberries, fruits and vegetables, Purdue University Northwest Economic Development Director Don Babcock said. You can grow the vegetable and fruit and harvest them remotely when they re ripe. That s the concept. It s something really unique we re doing in Northwest Indiana we need to amplify.
Purdue Northwest professor awarded 2021 Felix Chayes Prize
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Grethe Hystad, assistant professor of Statistics at Purdue University Northwest, has been selected as the recipient of the 2021 Felix Chayes Prize for Excellence in Research in Mathematical Petrology.
The prize, awarded by the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences, is presented to recipients of exceptional potential, proven research ability, and for outstanding contributions to statistical petrology or related applications of mathematics or informatics, according to the announcement. I am honored to have received the 2021 Felix Chayes Prize, Hystad said in the release. I am very grateful to my collaborator, the mineralogist, Dr. Robert Hazen at the Earth and Planets Laboratory at the Carnegie Institution for Science and the entire research group for introducing me to very interesting research problems in the intersection of statistics/mathematics, mineralogy, and geoscienc