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Welcome
The complex coupling of natural and human systems poses numerous grand environmental challenges. The Earth's resources are being consumed and modified at unprecedented rates as we expand our economy, but our economic future and quality of life are intrinsically dependent on a healthy natural environment. For continued prosperity, we must develop new ways to model and predict the impact of anthropogenic influences on ecosystems, monitor environmental quality, manage our natural resources, and develop new technologies that will help create a cleaner environment.
The Center for Environment (C4E), in close partnership with other centers, is synergizing relationships between faculty from many disciplines, as well as industry, the public, and the government to respond to these challenges. Join one of our listserves at the membership page. Support our efforts with your donation.
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Find out more about this new bat species and how it will be named.
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Inaugural 2-year report on
Center Activities (pdf)
Contact the Center for a hardcopy
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"Protecting environmental integrity is essential to prosperity and our quality of life" |
Activities within the C4E focus on integrating:
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discovery through anticipatory research that develops knowledge and innovative technologies
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entrepreneurship through commercialization of the technologies that further economic development and are environmentally beneficial
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engagement through policy analysis, regulatory guidance, and technology transfer
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learning through creation of new opportunities for students seeking a truly interdisciplinary education
More information on specific projects being supported by the Center can be found by selecting Research or Education from the menu above.
C4E in the News
Non-invasive self-referencing electrochemical sensors for quantifying real-time biofilm analyte flux.
Biotechnol Bioeng. Biotechnol Bioeng. 2009 Feb 15;102(3):791-9.
This publication by graduate student Eric McLamore (Civil Engineering) and C4E members Marshall Porterfield (Agricultural & Biological Engineering) and Kathy Banks (Civil Engineering) will be a spotlight article in the February issue of Biotechnology and Bioengineering. For more information see www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18985610.
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Purdue industrial design student, Rafael Smith, co-winner of the Center's Environmental Idea-2-Product competition, points to his team's unique emergency shelter design. The design was chosen as one of the most promising 23 innovative student ideas of 2008. NY Times article
News archive
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New York Times picks student project by Rafael Smith, Uber Shelter - C4E's Idea 2 Product winner in 2008, among top 23 visionary innovations by students. NY Times article . January 3, 2009.
"Material Elixir for Oily Water." EcoWorld article highlighting findings by C4E member Jeffrey Youngblood on filtering materials research. December 29, 2008.
Dr. Bickham's new bat species story picked up by more than 300 media outlets including CBS News and the Bob & Tom Show. CBS News interview December 18, 2008
Out and About
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Center Director, Professor John Bickham, collecting wildlife and ecotoxicology data in Azerbaijan
Out and about archive
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Dr. Bickham presented past, present, and future interdisciplinary research efforts in Azerbaijan to the Discovery Park Leadership meeting. January 14, 2009.
Dr. Bickham presented about the Center and related environmental initiatives to visitors from University of Tennessee and Oakridge National Labs, Purdue campus, December 16, 2008.
Brent Ladd presented a talk, Ecology, Sustainability, and Purdue’s Idea-2-Product Competition, for the Indiana Partners for Pollution Prevention, Lafayette, December 3, 2008.
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Please click here to fill out a Discovery Park visit request form and send to dpengage@purdue.edu, or call 765-494-3662 |
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Anthropology faculty candidate seminar: Laura Zannotti, University of Washington- The Politics of Possession: Nature, Place, and Space in the Kayapó Reserve.
Friday, January 16th 2:30 pm Room 318.
Jerry Jacka, North Carolina State University- The Political Ecology of Gold Mining in Highlands Papua New Guinea: Resource Governance Regimes, Neoliberalism, and Environmental Degradation
Friday, January 23rd 2:30 pm Room 318.
Special Seminar: A Review of Product Development Activity in the Crop Protection Industry Future Career Opportunities for Advanced-Degreed Scientists
By Peter N. Coody, Ph.D., Vice President Environmental Research, Bayer CropScience
January 16, 2009 11:00 to 12:30 in Whistler 116
Purdue Faculty Symposium on Infectious Disease Research and Interventions
FWednesday, January 21 2009, 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM, in Burton-Morgan Room 121
Indiana GIS Council Conference
February 17-18, 2009, Bloomington Monroe County Convention Center, 302 South College Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47403
Save the date: Indiana Water Resources Association Spring 2009 Meeting
"Floods of 2008, Status of Flood Plain Management, and Management to Protect Levees and Dams in Indiana"
May 6-8, 2009 at the Holiday Inn Conference Center, Columbus, Indiana
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Faculty and students are welcomed to attend the next candidate seminar for the position of Head of the Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering (DEEE).
Dr. Michael Barber, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington State University; Director, State of Washington Water Research Center; Director, Center for Environmental, Sediment, and Aquatic Research
Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 10:30 am-11:30 am in the Fu Room, Potter 234
There will be a DEEE Faculty Forum on Friday, January 16, 2009, in the Fu Room, Potter 234, from 9-10:00 am. Refreshments will be provided.
Recent Event:
Ecological Sciences & Engineering Annual Symposium: Permaculture & Biomimicry - Innovation Inspired by Nature for a Sustainable World
December 5, 2008.
Summary & Resources (PDF)
Event Archive
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Discovery Park Seed Grant Competition for 2009
A total of $300,000 has been allocated to fund seed grants of up to $50,000 each for proposals that catalyze new high impact activities at Purdue, and that involve a Discovery Park center.
Proposals require a DP center support letter. please contact Lesley Oliver.
The Ecological Sciences and Engineering (ESE) Graduate Program provides students with an interdisciplinary educational experience that integrates the science and engineering concepts needed to understand environmental and ecological phenomena.
Visit the ESE pages for information on applying to the program.
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Student Engineering Internships and Full Time Positions through Office of Industrial Relations, Civil Engineering Department more...
Indiana Living Green magazine is looking for a part-time distributor for the West Lafayette - Lafayette and Purdue area. Contact Lynn Jenkins, Publisher.
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Clean Manufacturing
Technology Institute (CMTI)
Purdue Interdisciplinary Center for Ecological Sustainability (PICES)
Purdue Climate Change Research Center (PCCRC)
Illinois- Indiana Sea Grants
Water Resources Research Center (WRRC)
Indiana State Climate Office
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Center for the Environment
503 Northwestern Avenue
West Lafayette , IN 47907
Phone: 765-494-5146
Fax: 765-496-1369
Email: environment@purdue.edu
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