College of Science Insights

Insights: The College of Science Magazine

Spring/Summer Issue 2005

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Welcome: Jeffrey S. Vitter
Frederick L. Hovde Dean of Science

Features:

Image is Everything :
Revolutionizing 3-D imaging could be automatic.

Virtual Chemistry :
A new approach to teaching chemistry to the video-gaming generation.

Size Matters :
Analytical chemistry research moves toward miniaturization.

Solving the Puzzles :
Purdue's Structural Biology Group pieces together the nature of deadly viruses.

Macroscope:

  • More grants for Endocyte's cancer treatment drugs
  • Miller chairs provide much-needed faculty support
  • Science Advancement Team welcomes two new faces
  • Introducing the Lawson Computer Science Building
  • Undergrad biology is H.O.T.
  • Huber hits top 100
  • WISP celebrates 10 years

Breakthroughs:

  • Light kills - really
  • E. coli in the spotlight
  • Big grants for nanoscience
  • Testing the living
  • Inside the model plant
  • A cold way to go
  • Climate Changes
  • Purdue's Nobel Laureate passes away

Awards & Honors:

  • First place for Quadraspec
  • Giordano named top prof.

Class Notes:

  • Notes
  • In memoriam