Steven Wereley will be the lead researcher on oilspillHUB, a new website designed to examine the scientific and engineering issues surrounding the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history. The site features more than 30,000 hours of underwater videos of the failed Deepwater Horizon oil drill platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

Research by Eric Nauman and colleagues suggests that some high school football players suffer undiagnosed changes in brain function and continue playing even though they are impaired.

After teaming up with another Purdue undergrad over the summer to convert a Porsche 925S to electric power, Sean Kleinschmidt co-founded the club to encourage enthusiasm for, and knowledge and development of, electric vehicles by students and the community.

Researchers in Mechanical Engineering have developed a facility aimed at learning precisely how coal and biomass are broken down in reactors called gasifiers as part of a project to strengthen the scientific foundations of the synthetic fuel economy.

A group led by Professor Doug Adams is part of a national effort to create a new line of defense against improvised explosive devices and hidden bombs by developing detectors that use sound and radio waves to penetrate shielding materials.