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Distinguished Professor Chris Greene selected as 2024 Morrill Award winner
PURDUE UNIVERSITY — Chris Greene, a theoretical physicist and the Albert Overhauser Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, has been named Purdue’s Morrill Award winner for 2024. Greene was recognized Tuesday (May 7) with other 2024 award winners at Purdue’s annual Faculty Honors Ceremony and Reception. The Morrill Award is the highest honor that Purdue confers on a faculty member and recognizes faculty who best exhibit excellence in teaching, research and engagement.
A more perfect status quo
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Purdue University has performed side-by-side comparison of precision data collected from both the Mother Machine and the SChemostat technologies, providing substantial insights into quantitative rules governing the maintenance of stochastic homeostasis in living systems. The technologies were developed at Purdue University in the lab of Prof. Sri Iyer-Biswas.
2023-24 Physics and Astronomy Awards for faculty, staff and students
Join us in applauding the shining stars of the 2024 Purdue Physics and Astronomy Awards! A testament to tireless research, innovative teaching, and relentless dedication in our classrooms and labs. We recognize our faculty, staff and students with awards that were presented on April 25, 2024.
Discover Purdue’s latest and greatest in space sciences
PURDUE NEWS — Space scientists are the boots on the ground of space exploration, and Purdue’s researchers are among the most elite. Celebrate the wonder of space with this collection of the most recent and impactful news from Purdue University’s space research labs. Included in this collection are professor Danny Milisavljevic with Webb Telescope images of of Cassiopeia A and PhysAstro student Gabriel Skowronek living in a Mars habitat.
Jing Liu awarded NSF and NIH grants to study mechanics in human cells
Human cells generate and sustain mechanical forces as part of their normal physiology. These forces, typically in the scale of several to tens of piconewton (10-12 N), could easily control the structures and biological functions of the cell. Jing Liu, associate professor at the Purdue Department of Physics and Astronomy, has integrated modern molecular biology techniques with imaging methods to detect the piconewton forces generated inside a living cell. Liu’s cutting-edge mechanics-driven biophysics and medical research has gained him two grants to study cell migration and cells in the human eye.
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