Two Purdue Agriculture student athletes were named Academic All-Big Ten Honorees for the fall sports season. The Academic All-Big Ten team recognizes student athletes' outstanding classroom performance with a GPA of 3.0 or higher. Both Quintin Lowe and Julia Kane are multi-year honorees.

Purdue University researchers have developed a device for more conveniently detecting pathogens in health care settings, on farms and in food production operations.

Nafisa Rafiq, a PhD student in biomedical engineering, and Mohit Verma, associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering, described their new system in the IEEE Sensors Journal. Rafiq, Verma and Bibek Raut, also a PhD student in biomedical engineering at Purdue, have submitted a patent application for related technologies. Verma serves as chief technology officer of Krishi, a startup company that develops molecular assays.