WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana, June 26 (TNSres) -- Purdue University issued the following news release: * * * Development of new center aims to increase nutrition security and mitigate climate change * * * The Purdue University College of Agriculture's Department of Agricultural Economics has received a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The grant will fund a research and Extension project titled "Designing Co-Created Solutions more PR

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, June 26 -- Indiana University issued the following news release: Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb will serve as the founding chair of the new Department of Computer Science at the Indiana University Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering in Indianapolis beginning this fall. An established leader in the areas of image processing, computer vision and machine learning, Abdel-Mottaleb has made significant research contributions to 3D face and ear recognition, biometr more PR

WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana, June 26 (TNSres) -- Purdue University issued the following news release: * * * Purdue University research reactor serves as test bed for optimizing performance of small modular reactors * * * o expand the availability of electricity generated from nuclear power, several countries have started developing designs for small modular reactors (SMRs), which could take less time and money to construct compared to existing reactors. Toward this effort, a study conducted at  more PR

GOSHEN, Indiana, June 25 -- Goshen College issued the following news: Celia Vasquez, who helped to establish Goshen College's Study-Service Term (SST) program in Peru in 2005 and served for more than a decade as a country coordinator, accompanying hundreds of students on their intercultural journey, died on June 21. She was 66 years old. Vasquez's husband, Oswaldo Aguirre, said that she had developed an aggressive form of leukemia. By the time it was detected, Celia Vasquez del Valle de Aguirr more PR

COOKEVILLE, Tennessee, June 26 -- Tennessee Technological University issued the following news release: By Tracey Hackett A Tennessee Tech University professor who specializes in additive manufacturing processes - or 3D printing - shared expertise and equipment with an exclusive group of other educators from three states this summer. Ismail Fidan, a manufacturing and engineering technology professor at Tech, first teamed up with Somerset Community College in Kentucky in 2019 for a National Sc more PR

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, June 25 -- The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission issued the following agenda: * * * TO: Commission Chairman James F. Huston; Commissioners Bennett, Freeman, Veleta and Ziegner FROM: Commission Technical Divisions DATE: June 21, 2024 RE: 30-Day Utility Articles for Conference on Wednesday, June 26, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m. The following thirty-day filings have been submitted to the Commission. Each item was reviewed by the appropriate Commission Technical Divisions and a more PR

BLOOMINGTON, Indiana, June 26 (TNSres) -- Indiana University issued the following news release: New research from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business explains how pharmaceutical companies were able to saturate the country with massive quantities of opioids, despite efforts by the Drug Enforcement Administration to regulate their supply. The research identifies a loophole in the DEA's monitoring system exploited by some pharmaceutical companies, leading to an oversupply of opioid d more PR

WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana, June 25 (TNSres) -- Purdue University issued the following news release: * * * Patent-pending real-time precision opto-control technology has applications in life sciences, biological and pharmaceutical research * * * Purdue University researchers in the College of Science have developed a patent-pending technology called RPOC, or real-time precision opto-control, which allows users to have site-specific and chemical-specific control of chemical processes within live more PR

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, June 26 -- The Indiana House Republicans issued the following news release: As summer kicks off in Indiana, local lawmakers want Hoosiers to know about a wide range of new state laws taking effect July 1. State Rep. Bob Heaton (R-Terre Haute) said most new laws passed during the 2024 legislative session take effect July 1, including expanding work-based learning. More Hoosier high school students can apply for a Career Scholarship Account to pursue internships, apprentic more PR