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GOVERNANCE REPORT TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Office of the Vice President for Research

Discovery with Delivery

February 2, 2012

Board of Trustees Governance Report February 2012

Discovery with Delivery 2

Office of the Vice President for Research Introduction This Board of Trustees Governance Report on Discovery with Delivery presents highlights of Purdue’s progress in research during FY 2011.

The Purdue research enterprise is focused on achieving the strategic goals of Discovery with Delivery as presented in Purdue’s “New Synergies” strategic plan and consistent with the Decadal Funding Plan. In fact, Purdue’s research programs impact all the strategic aims of the “New Synergies” plan as they align with the land-grant university mission of learning, discovery and engagement.

• Purdue is Launching Tomorrow’s Leaders through increased funding to promote STEM education and opportunities for graduate and undergraduate research which has become a vital and desirable part of all of our students’ education.

• Purdue is creating a culture of Discovery with Delivery while building on our strong foundation of field-defining research and maximizing the impact of new Purdue discovery as it pertains to human issues as well as new technologies for economic development.

• Purdue is Meeting Global Challenges by building lasting partnerships among faculty, students and citizens across the globe in addressing grand challenges.

The role of a research university has taken on increased responsibilities in our state, our nation and around the world. Discovery is no longer sequestered to laboratories or journals. Research and discovery with delivery are looked to for answers to difficult human and technical issues, for innovative ways to educate the next generation of leaders and scholars, and for building a sustainable new economy. Much is demanded of research institutions and this University is capable of meeting that demand.

Discovery Recognition Highlights A key objective in Purdue’s strategic plan is to increase the number of faculty members in professional organizations. The results are impressive. Purdue’s outstanding faculty investigators have been selected for positions that will advise on future challenges facing our nation and the world. They have also received national and international recognition for their accomplishments. This report contains highlights of some of those contributions.

Significant National and International Recognitions

National Medal of Technology and Innovation Rakesh Agrawal, the Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering, has received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. The award is the highest honor for technological achievement bestowed by the President of the United States. He was cited for his: “…extraordinary record of innovations which have had significant positive impacts on the electronic device manufacturing, liquefied gas production and the supply of industrial gases for diverse industries.” Agrawal has 116 U.S. patents, nearly 500 non-U.S. patents and 93 technical papers.



Linus Pauling Institute Prize Connie Weaver, Distinguished Professor of Foods and Nutrition, was awarded the Linus Pauling Institute Prize for Health Research. The award is one of the most significant in the field of diet and nutrition, recognizing excellence in research and successful efforts to disseminate new knowledge to the public and the health profession.

Technology Review TR35 Award Alexandra Boltasseva, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, was selected as one of the world's top 35 young innovators by Technology Review magazine for her research into a new class of "plasmonic metamaterials" as potential building blocks for advanced optical technologies, including ultrapowerful microscopes and computers, improved solar cells, artificial atoms and a possible invisibility cloak. The new materials could make possible "nanophotonic" devices for numerous applications.

Lifetime Achievement Award from the SANS Institute Eugene Spafford, professor of computer science and the executive director of Purdue’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the SANS Institute. SANS is a cooperative research and education organization and operates the internet’s early warning system – the Internet Storm Center.

U.S. Geological Survey Director’s Award Steven Wereley, professor of mechanical engineering, has been given the U.S. Geological Survey Director’s Award for assisting with the response to the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent oil spill.

Significant Appointments

Co-chair for New National Center to Advance Technologies in Teaching and Learning Arden L. Bement Jr., director of Purdue’s Global Policy Research Institute, and the David A. Ross Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering, will serve as co-chair of a commission of experts from industry and academia to recommend an initial research and policy agenda for Digital Promise. Digital Promise is a new national center created by Congress with bipartisan support to advance technologies to transform teaching and learning.

Board for International Food and Agricultural Development Purdue University Distinguished Professor of Agronomy and World Food Prize Laureate Gebisa Ejeta has been appointed by President Barack Obama to the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development.

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United States Department of Agriculture Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Animal Health Willie M. Reed, dean of Purdue’s School of Veterinary Medicine and president of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges, has been named to the new United States Department of Agriculture Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Animal Health. The committee will advise the secretary on policies related to prevention, surveillance, and control of animal diseases.

Director of Birck Nanotechnology Center

Ali Shakouri is the new Mary Jo and Robert L. Kirk Director of the Birck Nanotechnology Center in Discovery Park and professor of electrical and computer engineering. Shakouri has focused his research on nanoscale heat and current transport in semiconductor devices, high-resolution thermal imaging, micro refrigerators on a chip and waste-heat recovery. He received his master's and doctoral degrees from the California Institute of Technology in 1995 and his bachelor's degree in engineering from Telecom ParisTech in France in 1990.

American Association for the Advancement of Science Eight Purdue University professors have been awarded the distinction of fellow from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society. Five faculty members were awarded the same distinction in 2012. These professors join 38 Purdue colleagues as AAAS fellows.

2011 Fellows

R. Graham Cooks, the Henry Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, for his contributions to the fields of analytical chemistry and mass spectrometry through innovations in ionization, ion chemistry and instrumentation.

Stanton B. Gelvin, the H. Edwin Umbarger Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences, for his contributions to scientific understanding of Agrobacterium mediated transformation of plant cells.

Paul M. Hasegawa, the Bruno Moser Distinguished Professor of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, for his contributions to the field of plant abiotic stress and the understanding of signaling and effector determinants of salt, osmotic and low-temperature stress tolerance.

Ahmed Hassanein, the Paul L. Wattelet Professor of Nuclear Engineering, for his contributions to the areas of nuclear fission and fusion, high-energy and nuclear physics, and advanced nanolithography applications.

Scott A. McLuckey, the John A. Leighty Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, for his contributions to biological mass spectrometry through research in gas-phase ion chemistry and the development of novel instrumentation.

Paul B. Shepson, professor of chemistry, for his contributions to the elucidation of important chemical and photochemical processes that play central roles in air pollution and climate change.

Arvind Varma, the R. Games Slayter Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, for pioneering research publications in chemical reaction engineering and advanced novel materials synthesis, authorship of textbook and monographs, editorship of book series, and academic leadership.



2012 Fellows

Steven Adelman, theoretical physical chemist and chemistry educator, for developing the theoretical foundation for studying chemical reaction dynamics on solid surfaces and in liquid solutions.

Muhammad Ashraful Alam, professor of electrical and computer engineering, for distinguished contributions to the reliability of electronic devices, "carrier transport" in technology-relevant complex materials, and for lucid and broad communication of these ideas.

Srinivasan Chandrasekar, professor of industrial engineering and materials engineering, for outstanding contributions to the technology of manufacturing through the integration of fundamental material properties into mathematical descriptions of machining processes and machined products.

Suresh Garimella, associate vice president of engagement and the R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, for distinguished and pioneering contributions to the field of thermal transport and energy efficiency with significant sustained impact on industry.

Michael Ladisch, Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, and director of Purdue's Laboratory of Renewal Resources Engineering, for his contributions to the science of bioprocessing of renewal resources in biofuels and of bioseparations for rapid detection of food pathogens.

American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Three Purdue University professors have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. Pictured from left in order are:

Leah H. Jamieson, the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering and Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering;

H. Jay Melosh, Distinguished Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Physics;

Ei-ichi Negishi, the Herbert C. Brown Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Nobel Laureate.

College of Fellows for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)

The American Institute has named Purdue biomedical engineering professor Alyssa Panitch to the College of Fellows for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Panitch received the honor for her contributions to novel biopolymer development and their translation through entrepreneurship into useful medical products. Panitch is the current faculty entrepreneur-in-residence at Discovery Park's Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship.

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Early Career Award Winners

Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award Ulrike Dydak, an assistant professor of health sciences who specializes in medical imaging of neurodegenerative diseases, received more than $2 million through an Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The five-year grant will help fund noninvasive neuroimaging techniques using magnetic resonance imaging to study manganese toxicity and lead to a better understanding of the neural system.

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Demetra C. Evangelou, an assistant professor in the School of Engineering Education, has been chosen for a prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). This award is bestowed by the President of the United States.

National Academies Education Fellows in the Life Sciences The National Academy of Sciences has named Laurie Iten, an associate professor of biological sciences, and Stephanie Gardner, a continuing lecturer in biological sciences, as National Academies Education Fellows in the Life Sciences for the 2011-2012 academic year.

NSF CAREER Research Awards Purdue University faculty members continue to be very successful in obtaining National Science Foundation Early Career Development Awards, the most prestigious honor given to young researchers.

Alina Alexeenko, assistant professor of aeronautical and astronautical engineering Jong Hyun Choi, assistant professor of mechanical engineering Charles Killian, assistant professor of computer science Ramana Rao Kompella, assistant professor of computer science Svitlana Mayboroda, assistant professor of mathematics

For the academic year 2012, four Purdue University faculty members received CAREER awards to date.

Monica Cardella, assistant professor in engineering education David Gleich, assistant professor of computer science Senay Purzer, assistant professor in engineering education Burkhard Schulz, assistant professor of horticulture and landscape architecture



University Recognitions

2011 Herbert Newby McCoy Award Clint Chapple, department head and Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, is the 2011 recipient of the Herbert Newby McCoy Award, the most prestigious research honor given by Purdue. Chapple is being recognized for his pioneering efforts in the mapping of plant cell walls to make them better suited for forage, fiber and fuel.

Seed for Success Awards FY 2011 At this year’s Excellence in Research Awards Program, 262 principal investigators and co-investigators were recognized for their contribution in acquiring a $1 million or more award. Of the 262 investigators, 111 were first-time bronze acorn award winners.

Youngest-ever Sigma Xi Milad Alucozai from the College of Health and Human Sciences earned an invitation as a freshman to the prestigious Sigma Xi international science and engineering society, making him the youngest-ever Purdue chapter member. He is researching neurodegenerative diseases in the Purdue Center for Paralysis Research.

Discovery with Delivery Purdue’s research programs impact all the strategic aims of the “New Synergies” plan. Following are some highlights of faculty efforts in Launching Tomorrow’s Leaders.

Launching Tomorrow’s Leaders

Purdue is Launching Tomorrow’s Leaders through increased funding to promote STEM education and opportunities for graduate and undergraduate research, which has become a vital and desirable part of all of our students’ education.

Sparking Interest in STEM Careers

Purdue University researchers received a $1.25 million initiative from the National Science Foundation for the project, Research Goes to School, which provides professional development to rural science teachers so they can develop lessons on topics such as alternative energy and climate change. The project is led by Gabriela Weaver, a chemistry professor and director of Purdue’s Discovery Learning Research Center and Maureen McCann, biological sciences professor and director of Purdue’s Energy Center. Provost Tim Sands is the principal investigator on the NSF grant.



National Genomics Research Initiative Purdue is among a small group of institutions selected by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Science Education Alliance to offer the National Genomics Research Initiative, a two-semester course developed to give undergraduate students experiences in scientific discovery. The course was offered for the first time at Purdue during the 2010-11 academic year.

Undergraduate students isolate and characterize their own bacteriophages from local soil. From these phages, one is chosen to have its DNA sequenced and annotated. Jenna Rickus, associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering, and Kari Clase, assistant professor and biotechnology researcher in Purdue's Industrial Technology program, team teach the course.

HHMI Award for Undergraduate Life Science Education

Purdue received $1.5 million for undergraduate life science education from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Life science students who will be responsible for solving the global challenges of tomorrow need an innovative educational experience to keep pace with advancing technology that can generate massive amounts of data. The collaborative project led by Dennis Minchella, professor and associate head of biological sciences, is a partnership among six faculty members from three colleges (Science, Agriculture, and Engineering) which plans to inject statistics and experimental analysis into the biology curriculum at all levels.

Meeting Global Challenges

Purdue is Meeting Global Challenges by building lasting partnerships among faculty, students and citizens across the globe in addressing grand challenges.

Above is a graphic representation of Purdue’s global reach. Markers indicate the number of collaborative sponsored program agreements and global linkages with international partners outside the contiguous United States. Sources: Sponsored Program Services, Purdue University International Programs, and Data Digest.



Global Policy Research Institute Incentive Grants In the summer of 2010, Purdue opened its doors to Purdue’s Global Policy Research Institute (GPRI).

The institute will increase the visibility of Purdue’s research findings and enhance the impact of the University’s discoveries for the common good. Incentive grants were awarded to researchers to establish seed projects that would enable them to work toward securing larger grants from national organizations.

GPRI’s first series of awarded grants went to the following professors. Daniel P. Aldrich, assistant professor of political science, "Network Resilience in Disasters: An Interdisciplinary, International Perspective" Sophie A. Lelièvre, associate professor of basic medical sciences in the School of Veterinary Medicine, "Public Health Policies for Breast Cancer Prevention Research: A Global Venture" Sonak Pastakia, assistant professor of pharmacy practice, "Bridging Income Generation with Provision of Incentives for Care" Paul V. Preckel, professor of agricultural economics and faculty director of Indiana's State Utility Forecasting Group, "Increasing Electricity Trading and Environmental Sustainability in Southeast Europe" Leigh S. Raymond, associate professor of political science and associate

director of Purdue Climate Change Research Center, "All (Climate) Politics are Local? Exploring the Relationship Between Framing of Scientific Projections of Local Climate Change Impacts and Sub-National Policy Design"

Workshop and symposia grants were awarded to the following professors.

Matthew Huber, associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, "Bridges to Sustainability: Research Workshops with the Australian and New Zealand Institutions" James M. Lowenberg-Deboer, associate dean of international programs in agriculture and professor of agricultural economics, "Joint Purdue-Brazil Symposium on Bio-energy: Spring 2011" S. Laurel Weldon, professor of political science, "New Perspectives on Intractable Problems: Informal Institutions as Policy Responses to Global Grand Challenges"

Four Purdue research teams also have received grants from GPRI in partnership with the university’s Center for Global Food Security. Each team was led by the following team leaders.

Thomas W. Hertel, Distinguished Professor of Agriculture, for an international workshop on the global spatial database infrastructure Klein Ileleji, associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering, to address problems associated with postharvest losses and mycotoxins for maize, a major staple food crop in sub-Saharan Africa Betty Bugusu, managing director of International Food Technology Center, to identify and develop a value chain that enhances food security and promotes economic growth in the region for east Africa Abdelfattah M. Nour, professor of basic medical sciences in the School of Veterinary Medicine, to improve animal health and productivity for poor African families



Center for Global Food Security Gebisa Ejeta, Distinguished Professor of Agronomy and World Food Prize Laureate, is leading the effort at Purdue’s new Center for Global Food Security to seek solutions to the challenges of getting enough food to people who need it and producing enough to meet even greater demand in years to come. The center draws on leadership of faculty, staff and students from colleges and schools across the university's campus and supports initiatives of Purdue's Global Policy Research Institute involving agriculture, the environment and the economy.

Purdue Launching New Ag Programs in Afghanistan Purdue received a five-year, $32 million U.S. Agency for International Development grant for work that builds on efforts achieved under an earlier, $7 million grant. Five Afghan universities are getting a boost in faculty development, core agricultural programs and new agribusiness/ agricultural economics, food science and agricultural engineering offerings. The Afghan effort team is led Kevin T. McNamara, professor of agricultural economics and assistant director of International Programs in Agriculture with partners

from the University of Missouri and Kansas State, North Carolina State, Tennessee State, and Washington State universities.

EURECA Purdue University was selected as one of four U.S. universities to participate as partners with two Russian research universities in a program called Enhancing University Research and Entrepreneurial Capacity (EURECA). The program is administered by the New Eurasia Foundation and the American Councils for International Education with the objective of “bringing together a distinguished group of entrepreneurially focused public research universities in Russia and the U.S. to develop new capacities, and new products and services for technology transfer and IP commercialization.” Pictured left are faculty and administrators from the University of Nizhni Novgorod visiting Discovery Park.



Discovery with Delivery

Purdue is creating a culture of Discovery with Delivery while building on our strong foundation of field-defining research and maximizing the impact of new Purdue discoveries as it pertains to human issues as well as new technologies for economic development.

Science of Information Center The National Science Foundation awarded Purdue with $25 million for five years to lead Indiana’s first Science and Technology Center. Wojciech Szpankowski, the Saul Rosen Professor of Computer Science, is the director of the Center for Science of Information. He is leading the effort that will take information theory to the next level with nine partner universities. They include: Bryn Mawr College; Howard University; MIT; Princeton; Stanford; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, San Diego; Texas A&M; and University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.

When Protest Makes Policy Laurel Weldon, professor in political science, recently published her book, When Protest Makes Policy: How Social Movements Represent Disadvantaged Groups. Due to the relevance of her book to current events, Weldon has received media exposure from The Globe and Mail; Fox National TV; CBC TV Canada; WIBC; Northwest Indiana Business Quarterly Magazine; and Southbend Radio.

Purdue gets $3.8 million to Study, Educate on Bioenergy Crops More than a dozen Purdue scientists will receive $3.8 million for their work, which is part of the $25 million U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant to Iowa State University. The goal is to create production systems that will give growers information on how to maximize bioenergy grass growth on marginal or unused farmland that isn't optimal for other crops.

USDA Grant Will Help Farmers Deal with Changes in Climate Linda Prokopy, an associate professor of forestry and natural resources, will lead researchers affiliated with the Purdue Climate Change Research Center in the five-year, $5 million grant to develop decision-support tools to help corn and soybean growers adapt their practices to changes in climate.The research is funded by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Tiny oxygen generators boost effectiveness of anticancer treatment Led by Purdue University professor of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering Babak Ziaie, researchers have created and tested miniature devices that are implanted in tumors to generate oxygen, boosting the killing power of radiation and chemotherapy.



The devices were created at the Birck Nanotechnology Center in Discovery Park. Purdue researchers are working with Song-Chu (Arthur) Ko, an assistant professor of clinical radiation oncology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. A patent application has been filed for the design and the Alfred Mann Institute for Biomedical Development at Purdue University is providing development funding. Babak Ziaie is pictured left.

Discovery Park Enabling Large-Scale Research for 10 Years When Discovery Park began in 2001, there were a limited number of federally funded large-scale project centers existed at Purdue. Today there are eight in Discovery Park (DP) alone. DP now annually accounts for 20-25 percent of all university sponsored programs, and DP projects are typically the large-scale projects (in FY 2011, for example, over a third of all projects funded at greater than $1 million were DP projects). Aerial view of McGinley Plaza in Discovery Park.

In its first decade of existence, Discovery Park changed the cultural and research landscape at Purdue by enabling cross-campus partnerships that increased collaboration, greatly expanding campus-wide research equipment and facilities, enabling the successful production of interdisciplinary large-scale research proposals, and helping to establish a culture of entrepreneurship at Purdue and in the area and State. The next decade will see greater focus on partnerships, further expansion of facilities, and greater emphasis on discovery with delivery. Discovery Park aims to become globally recognized both as a research leader and a collaborator of choice for complex research programs requiring interdisciplinary cooperation to attain solutions to the most demanding grand challenge problems.



Research Trends Purdue faculty research activities have resulted in considerable growth in both sponsored awards and expenditures. The rapid growth experienced over the past several years necessitates the University keep pace with increased support for faculty to enable the successful completion of the goals of their funded programs while maintaining the highest level of research compliance and integrity.

The above figure represents a six year trend in awards and expenditures at Purdue system-wide. There has been an overall upward trend in awards received and in expenditures. Purdue sponsored program awards totaled nearly $420 million in FY 2011. Expenditures account for all of Purdue award contributions including cost share commitments, unrecovered facility and administration costs, etc. Expenditures increased by five percent from FY 2010 total of $573 million to FY 2011 total of $600 million.

During FY 2011, Purdue recorded sponsored research awards of $420 million, a decrease of four percent over the previous year’s record high of $438 million. However, a large portion of the FY 2010 awards was the result of successful applications for funds made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). If the ARRA funds received in both fiscal years were not included in the total, sponsored program awards actually indicate a 19.3 percent increase -- from $331 million in FY 2010 to $395 million in FY 2011.

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Peer Comparisons The charts on the following page illustrate peer comparisons based on total expenditures. The table is rank ordered by expenditures in FY 2010 and is based on the most recent NSF research and expenditures data.

When comparing Purdue’s FY 2010 total R&D expenditures including the medical sciences with our aspirational and Big 10 peers, Purdue ranks 10th out of 14, moving up from 11th in FY 2009.

Data comparing R&D expenditure excluding the medical sciences is not currently available. It will be provided at a later date.

Fiscal year 2011 Award Sources

More than half of Purdue sponsored program funding came from the combined sources of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Industrials and Foundations.

Funding revenue from state and local government sources remained the same fraction of the total as last year, six percent in FY 2010. Institutional awards from the Purdue Research Foundation and Purdue University are very important to Purdue’s research enterprise which returned to the three percent level received in FY 2009.

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Purdue colleges with large increases in FY 2011 awards include education (42 percent), agriculture (34 percent), and liberal arts (37 percent). Purdue’s North Central campus posted a 56 percent increase in awards while the Fort Wayne campus posted a 24 percent increase.

Partnerships

Partnerships are key to addressing the complex issues of our time. Academic, public and private partnerships bring together the expertise, analysis, and resources necessary to achieve success in tackling the grand challenges facing our nation and the world.

In FY 2011, Purdue worked with a number of partners to build the research enterprise. Below are graphics of the top academic partners and the top non-academic partners (size is based on research dollars from and through Purdue to these partners).

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Facilities and Infrastructure Health and Human Sciences Research Facility The Health and Human Sciences Research Facility will be the new home of speech language and hearing sciences, medical education, and clinical facilities. $38 million in bonds and gifts funds the new facility adding 129,545 gross square feet to enhance interdisciplinary partnerships in nursing, medical education, foods and nutrition, health and kinesiology, psychology and speech language and hearing sciences. In addition it will bring together health related clinics in an area of campus that will be more accessible on the Perimeter Parkway. A parking garage to replace surface parking is planned.

Drug Discovery Facility The Drug Discovery Facility will include renovation of animal space and creation of an animal imaging center for microscopy and tissue culture research in the adjacent Hansen Building. The more than 65,397 gross square feet facility will enable ground-breaking research in biochemistry related to drug discovery. $25 million in bonds and gifts launched this new facility.



Multidisciplinary Cancer Research Facility NIH awarded $14.9 million for the expansion of the Bindley Bioscience Center. The 28,603 gross square foot expansion will establish the Multidisciplinary Cancer Research Facility which will support disease focused research, biofuels and bionanotechnology instrumentation.

Herrick Labs Center for High Performance Building Purdue University is creating a $30.75 million Center for High Performance Building at the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories to design systems for future buildings that are more environmentally and user friendly, energy efficient, and safe. The National Institute of Standards and Technology has awarded $11.75 million for the project with the remainder coming from private donors. The building adds 63,991 gross square feet to Purdue’s research infrastructure.

Summary and Plans Purdue continues its demonstrated growth in sponsored program funding, reaching nearly $420 million in sponsored programs awards and $600 million in expenditures during FY 2011.

University faculty members are fully engaged in research programs addressing areas of need in both human issues and technical innovation. The established reputations and expertise of Purdue’s disciplinary programs and interdisciplinary teams are drawing national and international attention. Purdue faculty are sought after for their expertise and to advise federal agencies on grand challenge issues. More and more of our top faculty are being inducted into prestigious academies. All of these activities are part of Purdue’s discovery with delivery strategy to build new opportunities for future partnerships and collaborations.

With research universities looked to as a source for economic development and as funding from state and federal budgets tighten, Purdue is reaching out to forge lasting and productive partnerships with foundations and industry. We have a strong record of industry and foundation partnerships and expect the trend to continue into the 21st century.

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