Right off the heels of other high-level appointments at international institutions, Paul Asunda (a professor in both Purdue Polytechnic and the College of Education) has now been appointed as a Fulbright Scholar to Kenya. He will be working on a variety of projects designed to help Kenyan schools evaluate and modify how they teach STEM subjects to their students.

Area high school students got to learn about the latest and greatest innovations in robotics from Purdue Polytechnic's very own SMART Lab. As part of the week-long program, they got to pick the brains of faculty and research staff, even learning how Purdue's familiar delivery robots manage to stay on target and not get lost around campus.

Purdue Polytechnic Anderson received a $10,000 Bridge to College Day grant to expose high school juniors and seniors to postsecondary opportunities.

Purdue Polytechnic’s Robert Nawrocki and his research colleagues are designing a soft, flexible electrode that can be comfortably placed on the skin, enabling a treatment called deep nerve stimulation. The new technology could potentially provide relief for medical disorders including migraine, rheumatoid arthritis and many gastrointestinal illnesses without the side effects of traditional pharmaceutical treatments.

A $5 million grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc., will help establish a centralized, virtual hub called “Innovation College” to encourage innovative teaching methods that reach across disciplines.

Gateway ComplexPurdue University announced that Lilly Endowment Inc. has given a $40 million grant to help create Purdue’s Engineering and Polytechnic Gateway Complex, an interdisciplinary hub with project-based instructional labs, design studios and other collaborative spaces. The complex will replace the Nuclear Engineering Building and Michael Golden Labs facilities.

During a visit to Purdue University, U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta announced a $12 million award to Purdue’s Polytechnic Institute to develop a program to help fill a growing need for cybersecurity professionals.

During August-September 2012, the College of Technology received external funding that totaled  $1,863,262.

Faculty who received funding (all are principal investigators unless otherwise noted) were: