ISF News April 25, 2011
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Controlling urban growth and increasing forested land are the most effective ways to decrease future water runoff and flooding, according to a Purdue University study.
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University’s Center for the Environment and the Chinese Academy of Sciences are forming a five-year partnership focused on researching the environmental challenges posed by population growth and urbanization in the two countries.
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Award-winning NPR correspondent Richard Harris, global industry safety expert Deborah Grubbe and congressional staffer Ana Unruh Cohen will speak Oct. 7 at Purdue University as part of a Discovery Lecture focused on safety and communication issues surrounding major oil spills.
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Earlier this fall, a team of UT scientists traveled to Beijing for the fourth annual workshop of the China-US Joint Research Center for Ecosystem and Environmental Change (JRCEEC).
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We anticipate a DOE Hub large scale funding opportunity in Battery and Energy Storage’ during next several months. We have arranged an internal half-day meeting on December 16 (1:00 to 4:30 pm; MRGN 129) to share our research/technical capabilities plus information gathered from the DOE. Both the Energy Center and the Birck Nanotechnology Center are coordinating this half-day event.
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The Role of Partnerships between Scientists and Journalists in the BP Oil Spill In mid-May, NPR first reported that the government was grossly underestimating the size of the BP oilspill in the Gulf of Mexico. NPR Science Correspondent Richard Harris broke that story by working closely with scientists in academia, including Professor Steve Wereley at Purdue University. Richard will recount how he got onto that story, how his reporting unfolded, and how the partnership between journalist and scientists ended up affecting the U.S. government’s approach to what we now recognize as an environmental impact of historic proportions.
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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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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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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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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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