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Classes in the sciences have been taught since the University opened in 1874. The School of Science was officially founded in 1907, and was reorganized to its current structure in 1963.
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The Computer Science Department was formed in 1962, and it the oldest degree-offering CS program in the United States.
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Purdue’s own Herbert C. Brown was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize for work with boron and phosphorus compounds as organic synthesis reagents.
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Eugene Spafford, Professor of Computer Science and Executive Director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS),
serves on the FBI’s Computer Forensics Advisory Board. He works on technology to help with data gathering and prosecution of cyber-crime.
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Researchers in Structural Biology recently succeeded in creating a three-dimensional model of the West Nile virus. The end result of all that research is a strangely elegant necktie.
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Our outstanding K-12 Outreach Program was founded in 1990 to increase interest and ability in science and the pre-college level. Since 1990, our K-12 Outreach Program has directly reached half a million students in Indiana, 2,300 teachers, and we’ve conducted 1,200 days of workshops.
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Science’s lone astronaut, Andrew J. Feustel, got his BS from Purdue in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences in 1991. He went on to get his PhD at Queen’s University in Ontario , and is currently working for NASA on the ground, doing technical work at their Astronaut Office Space Shuttle Branch, but is awaiting a space flight assignment once NASA restructures its shuttle program.
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