July 2023 Stories
The Big Idea: Living with forever chemicals
Tuesday, July 11th, 2023
PFAS are used in many consumer products, but may have impacts on human health. See how they enter the environment and what you can do about it.
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Ensuring a World where the Water Flows
Thursday, July 6th, 2023
Our daily interactions with water are so commonplace we probably give them little thought. We expect it to flow out of the tap — or might wonder if we need an umbrella for the day.
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Rooted in the Land-Grant Mission
Thursday, July 6th, 2023
The Purdue Student Farm provides opportunities for teaching, research and extension — and cultivates community.
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Meeting Global Challenges Together
Thursday, July 6th, 2023
Food. Water. Energy. Three basic needs. But getting these necessities to the right places, at the right times, in the right amounts, without harming people or the environment, is a monumental task.
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Giant Leaps
Wednesday, July 5th, 2023
Details on Purdue University’s new grants including two new million dollar and two multi-million dollar grants.
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Bringing blue food production to the Midwest
Wednesday, July 5th, 2023
Purdue University has received a five-year, $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to increase the production of seafood, also known as blue food.
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Potential for new Parkinson’s disease testing
Wednesday, July 5th, 2023
A team led by researchers at Purdue University and Purdue spin-off company Tymora Analytical Operations has developed technology that may reveal signs of Parkinson’s disease in urine samples.
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Speeding up the detection of E. coli
Wednesday, July 5th, 2023
A team led by Bruce Applegate, professor of food science, has developed a new time-saving assay (analysis method) to detect an especially severe strain of E. coli in ground beef.
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Sharing the gift of knowledge
Wednesday, July 5th, 2023
It’s 1986, and the scene opens with J.R. Ewing, the charming but scheming oil tycoon of the television saga “Dallas,” played by Larry Hagman, being chauffeured by jeep through pasture and forest.
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