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The cost to earn a Purdue MBA online is going down. Derek Schultz has that and more in this week’s edition of “Purdue News Now.”
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Purdue University and Dallara came together to celebrate the start of a partnership that will connect Purdue motorsports engineering students to the prominent industry leader in the heart of the world’s racing capital. The partnership pairs Purdue’s unique motorsports engineering program — the only undergraduate, ABET-accredited such program in the country — and Dallara, the largest multinational Italian race car manufacturer, inside Dallara’s U.S. headquarters, located just one mile from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Media contact: Derek Schultz, schul221@purdue.edu
Underground on Purdue University’s campus is the only nuclear reactor in Indiana. Although used just for research purposes — the total energy the reactor generates powers about the equivalent of 10 microwaves — Purdue University Reactor Number One has specific features that no other reactor in the U.S. has. But those features are coming in the next generation of reactors. With these features, future reactors could cost less to operate and maintain, be safer and last longer — removing barriers in building additional reactors to increase generation of carbon-free electricity. Research that Purdue engineers are conducting with these features is helping develop new techniques that reactors could use to achieve these goals, which align with the university’s efforts to investigate nuclear energy.
Media contact: Erin Murphy, ermurphy@purdue.edu
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $304,436 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research grant to LyoWave Inc. for a project that could increase the availability of lifesaving medicines and reduce pharmaceutical development and manufacturing costs. LyoWave has also received a Phase I matching grant of $50,000 from the Indiana Economic Development Corp.’s Applied Research Institute. LyoWave commercializes innovative microwave heating technologies developed at Purdue University that improve upon traditional lyophilization — or the process of freeze-drying perishable products — by increasing speed, cost-effectiveness and product throughput.
Media contact: Erin Murphy, ermurphy@purdue.edu
Purdue University’s College of Pharmacy is now home to the Center for Research Innovation in Biotechnology and the Clinical Drug Experience Knowledgebase, a comprehensive database of every active pharmaceutical ingredient with evidence of clinical testing. The center, or CRIB, is a collaborative effort between Purdue and Stony Brook universities. It was founded in 2014 at Washington University in St. Louis by Michael Kinch, a former Purdue faculty member who is now Stony Brook’s chief innovation officer and CRIB’s director. The center provides transparent information and analyses of drug discovery and development via the knowledgebase, or CDEK.
Media contact: Erin Murphy, ermurphy@purdue.edu
The online MBA program at Purdue University’s Mitch Daniels School of Business, ranked No. 7 in North America by CEO Magazine, is becoming more accessible to working professionals. Beginning with the fall 2025 semester, the cost of the program will be lowered to provide more opportunities for students to earn an MBA without leaving their current jobs. Students can choose a program path with four themes: finance and economics, supply chain management, leadership, and analytics. Each theme has different specializations, allowing students to customize the program best for them and make the degree as relevant as possible to their needs and to align with their career goals.
Media contact: Erin Murphy, ermurphy@purdue.edu
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