Professor Connie Weaver of
the Botanicals Research Center

Distinguished Professor of Foods and Nutrition Connie Weaver is head director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Botanicals Research Center for Age Related Diseases. Based at Purdue in collaboration with the University of Alabama-Birmingham and investigators at Rutgers University, Indiana University School of Medicine, and University of Illinois, the center studies the effectiveness and mechanism of action of polyphenolic compounds purported to reduce the risk of cancer, osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, cognitive function, and other age-related diseases.

Aviation tech students
conduct hands-on research

Bindley Bioscience Center
in Discovery Park

Bindley Bioscience Center
in Discovery Park

Birck Nanotechnology Center
in Discovery Park

Discovery Park's Birck
Nanotechnology Center

Faculty research supports the
Purdue Cancer Center

Computer technology students
see their work in progress

Purdue is a leader in Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education

A mechanical engineering
technology grad student gets to work

Professor Eric Stach at the Birck
Nanotechnology Center

An aerial view of Discovery Park, Purdue's
interdisciplinary research hub

Industrial pharmacy student
researchers at work in the lab

Graduate student
researcher Philip Morton

Regenstrief, Purdue strengthen
efforts to improve healthcare

Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering director Steven Witz, from left, and Purdue communications professor Bart Collins experiment with new technology that will be used to help design a telehealth model to promote patient learning and improve self-care. In this test, Witz and Collins are communicating via computer with Hannah Kim, a doctoral student in education technology, and Scott Schaffer, a Purdue professor of education technology.

Needle-size device tracks
tumors, radiation dose

Purdue engineer Babak Ziaie shows the prototype wireless device he has developed with doctoral student Chulwoo Son at the university's Birck Nanotechnology Center. The device fits inside a hypodermic needle to be injected into tumors to tell doctors the precise dose of radiation being received through therapy. The technology will eventually be shrunk to the size of a rice grain and also will be able to locate a tumor's exact position in real-time.