Purdue Annual Report

Annual Report 2011-2012

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Inside Preview » 2 People Linking public policy to disease prevention, blending feminist theory with engineering education, saving lives through analytics 10 Planet Meeting the world's food needs, sanitizing water with the sun, enhancing education in a digital age 18 Preservation Advancing understanding in the Arctic, minimizing accident-related backups, identifying old shipwrecks with 21st century technology 26 Metrics $354 million in awards, insights from Purdue's acting president, acting provost and vice president for research Inside Cover Image » Every southern spring and summer, after the sun has risen into its 24-hour circuit around the skies of Antarctica, the Ross Sea bursts with life. Floating microscopic plants known as phytoplankton soak up the sunlight and the nutrients stirring in the Southern Ocean and grow into prodigious blooms. Phytoplankton play a critical role in climate change research because their biochemical signatures leave behind clues related to temperature and past carbon dioxide levels. See p. 19 for Matt Huber's research related to phytoplankton in the Antarctic.

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