Article #461: Virtual ICU created by faculty, ITaP partnership supports research and training
When a physician is treating a patient in an intensive care unit, nurses are more than partners. They’re also human safety checklists. Are the right m...
When a physician is treating a patient in an intensive care unit, nurses are more than partners. They’re also human safety checklists. Are the right m...
When entomology Professor Jeffrey Holland’s class wanted to find out how changing the size and increasing the isolation of a landscape affects its abi...
Our Solar System formed about 4.5 billion years ago so it is a little late to watch Earth, Mars and their fellow planets coalescing out of the cloud o...
Like that little old ant with the rubber tree plant in the song, silicon wires just four atoms wide and an atom tall may be small, but they can carry...
"Contagion" is just a thriller of a movie but its premise - a deadly disease spread around the world by airline passengers - is no fiction,...
To the computer savvy, "interface" might bring to mind the way a computer operating system like Windows presents the world inside the machin...
Emergency managers would do well to consider staggering evacuations in a disaster like a hurricane, perhaps advising people living nearest the storm s...
International treaties that ban detonating nuclear weapons for testing are generally viewed as a good thing, but it certainly creates challenges for p...
In January 2011, the National Science Foundation began requiring all grant proposals to include two-page plans that describe what data will be generat...
Agricultural economics Professor Michael Delgado uses computationally demanding statistical models to study questions like the effectiveness of volunt...
Purdue faculty members and ITaP’s Envision Center for Data Perceptualization have developed a Web-enabled, 3-D virtual environment that recreates the...
Quark-gluon plasma, formed at temperatures 100,000 times hotter than the center of the sun, is something you won’t find cooking in any kitchen on Eart...
Consider two vital processes that go on in your car engine. One is turbulence, a kind of chaotic, random flow involving fuel and air. The other is com...
For about two decades voluntary pollution abatement programs have shifted in and out of popularity with national — popular in the George W. Bush admin...
Given the myriad uses we put lithium-ion batteries to — from the smartphones in our pockets to the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner passenger aircraft — how...
Purdue researchers and ITaP are embarking on a $4.5 million, four-year project to create a powerful Web-based system that will allow researchers world...
Pat Zollner and his students have golden eagles, butterflies, bats, herons, flying squirrels, chipmunks, martens and raccoons wandering around at Purd...
Thymic cancer is rare enough that one doctor, or even one hospital, never sees more than a few cases, making it difficult to better understand the sta...
Melissa Valentino, headed toward being a weather officer for the Air Force after graduation, knows the importance of computer modeling to her field so...
A project to record and create a library of sounds from around the world on Earth Day Tuesday, April 22, features a mobile application developed by IT...