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Every newborn on a ventilator can now be better protected, thanks to technology that helps prevent a common breathing tube incident

June 9, 2021
Every newborn on a ventilator can now be better protected, thanks to technology that helps prevent a common breathing tube incident
Note to journalists: High-resolution photos of George Wodicka and the SonarMed
TM Airway Monitoring System are available via Google Drive. Journalists visiting campus should follow visitor health guidelines.
In 1990, Purdue University professor George Wodicka conceived of a medical device that gives clinicians vital information to make more informed, life-saving decisions for their smallest patients. (Purdue University photo/John Underwood)
After 30 years of development, a medical device designed to continuously monitor the airways of the tiniest ventilated patients could become the standard of care for babies worldwide

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A sticky subject: Studying shellfish for advanced adhesives

A sticky subject: Studying shellfish for advanced adhesives
Note to journalists: Photos of the scientist and shellfish are available via Google Drive. Journalists visiting campus should follow visitor health guidelines.
Jonathan Wilker, A Purdue professor of chemistry, studies shellfish to develop adhesives that are more sustainable and stronger, and work in a wider range of environments than current adhesives. (Purdue University photo/Rebecca McElhoe)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Don’t look now, but you’re surrounded. Really. Within arm’s reach – probably even touching you – are troublesome, sticky, potentially even toxic, substances. Bad for the planet, permanent, maybe even bad for your health. They’re in your shoes, in your phone, in your laptop, lurking in the folds of envelopes, on books, in the chair you’re sitting in, the flooring beneath your feet, and in uncountable other objects in your house, office and everyday world.

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To give astronauts better food, engineers test a fridge prototype in microgravity

To give astronauts better food, engineers test a fridge prototype in microgravity
Note to journalists: A video of the researchers testing their fridge design in microgravity is available on YouTube. Additional footage and photos of the experiments aboard the ZERO-G flights are available via Google Drive. Journalists visiting campus should follow visitor health guidelines.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Astronauts have been going to space since 1961, but they still don’t have a refrigerator to use for keeping food cold on long missions to the moon or Mars.
Through experiments conducted in microgravity, a team of engineers from Purdue University, Air Squared Inc., and Whirlpool Corporation has shown that a prototype they developed could potentially overcome the challenges of getting a traditional fridge to work in space just as well as it does on Earth.

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Purdue team assists with K-12 immunization efforts in Montgomery County

Purdue team assists with K-12 immunization efforts in Montgomery County
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A community paramedic from Crawfordsville Fire Department gives a Montgomery County school employee a COVID-19 vaccine. The community paramedicine program recently received a grant from Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau to expand vaccinations to K-12 students. (Photo provided by Crawfordsville Fire Department)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A nationally acclaimed community paramedicine program in western Indiana will continue to expand services, thanks to assistance from Purdue University faculty and a student.
The Mobile Integrated Health Program – commonly known as community paramedicine – operated by the Crawfordsville Fire Department will expand on-site vaccine clinics to students in kindergarten through 12th grade in Montgomery County. The department was one of 50 Phase 1 winners of the Promoting Pediatric Primary Prevention (P4) Challenge sponsored by the federal Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau. Winners will receive $10,000 to launch their project within six months.

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Purdue faculty celebrated as Fulbright Scholar Award selections

Improving Alzheimer’s disease treatments, understanding how brain trauma can lead to heart dysfunction and advancing K-12 STEM education are some of the research projects representing six Purdue University faculty who have been named U.S. Fulbright Faculty Scholars.

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Purdue University renames its acclaimed equine hospital to the Caesars Entertainment Equine Specialty Hospital

Purdue University renames its acclaimed equine hospital to the Caesars Entertainment Equine Specialty Hospital
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Veterinary nurses at the Caesars Entertainment Equine Specialty Hospital perform a scan on a patient using a nuclear scintigraphy machine. (Photo/Ed Lausch, Lausch Photography)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine, in support of the Indiana equine industry, is pleased to announce its partnership with Caesars Entertainment and the renaming of the college’s equine hospital in Shelbyville, Indiana, as the Caesars Entertainment Equine Specialty Hospital.
“We are delighted that Caesars Entertainment will be part of the mission of our hospital,” said Dr. Ellen Lowery, director of the Purdue University Veterinary Hospital. “Everything we do there is state of the art and involves the most current diagnostics and therapeutics, so I’m excited to see the continued innovation we are able to provide for our patients and clientele.”

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New Illinois program seeks to serve low-income, homeless and low-resource rural veterans

The Military Family Research Institute (MFRI) at Purdue University is collaborating with University of Illinois Extension and select Illinois food pantries and faith-based communities on Reaching Rural Veterans (RRV), a Purdue-based program that connects low-income, homeless and low-resource rural veterans with affordable housing, health care and other resources.

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Hyatt named Purdue's chief information officer - Purdue University News

Hyatt named Purdue’s chief information officer
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University announced Thursday (May 27) that Ian Hyatt will be the university’s next chief information officer, effective Tuesday (June 1).
As chief information officer, Hyatt joins the university leadership team and will oversee information technology throughout the Purdue system and head Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP), Purdue’s central IT organization. ITaP operates the "Purdue System Cloud" ‒ the IT infrastructure that spans three statewide campuses and offers a nationally recognized high-performance computing complex that supports Purdue’s computational research.
Hyatt will be charged with continuing to integrate software solutions – such as SAP, SuccessFactors and Brightspace – as well as building a robust information security strategy across the Purdue system. He will have responsibility for the annual systemwide IT spend of $160 million and staff of more than 1,100, and will directly manage ITaP’s staff of 500 and annual $85 million budget. He will report to Chris Ruhl, executive vice president and chief financial officer and treasurer.

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On the Road Again: New Solutions for Old Problems

Self-curing concrete, self-healing roads, and concrete that reduces the global carbon footprint. Purdue University engineers are looking at new ways to pave roads, ways to extend the life of roads and ways to make roadwork less resource- and carbon-intensive.

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Purdue's largest freshman class will include first graduates of Purdue Polytechnic High School in Indianapolis

Purdue’s largest freshman class will include first graduates of Purdue Polytechnic High School in Indianapolis
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The pipeline of qualified students flowing from Indianapolis to West Lafayette is now open. Purdue’s latest enrollment data shows that the university is reaching students and families in the state’s capital as never before.
Forty students from the first graduating class of Purdue Polytechnic High School Schweitzer Center at Englewood in Indianapolis are among the more than 10,000 incoming freshmen expected to arrive on campus later this summer as part of the university’s largest freshman class ever. In addition to PPHS Schweitzer Center located on Indianapolis’ east side, there is the North campus near Indianapolis’ Broad Ripple neighborhood and PPHS South Bend.

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