Category: ISF News

April 25, 2011

New approach needed to prevent major ‘systemic failures’

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A Purdue University researcher is proposing development of a new cross-disciplinary approach for analyzing and preventing systemic failures in complex systems that play a role in calamities ranging from huge power blackouts to the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster and the subprime mortgage crisis.

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April 25, 2011

Award-winning NPR reporter to speak on Gulf oil spill coverage

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Award-winning NPR correspondent Richard Harris will speak Feb. 3 at Purdue University as part of a Discovery Lecture focused on the role of journalists and scientists surrounding last year’s massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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April 25, 2011

Gene find could lead to healthier food, better biofuel production

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University scientists have found the last undiscovered gene responsible for the production of the amino acid phenylalanine, a discovery that could lead to processes to control the amino acid to boost plants’ nutritional values and produce better biofuel feedstocks.

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April 25, 2011

Q&A with NPR correspondent Richard Harris

Award-winning NPR science correspondent Richard Harris addressed a standing-room-only crowd at Purdue University on Feb. 3 as part of a Discovery Lecture on the role of journalists and scientists surrounding the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

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April 25, 2011

Nuclear weapons specialist to speak at Purdue

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – An international nuclear weapons specialist will speak at Purdue University this week about the potential benefits and challenges posed by the global proliferation of nuclear power, as well as issues surrounding nuclear weapons in North Korea.

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