A group of Purdue University agricultural professors are visiting Cuba to set the stage for a planned student study-abroad program on the Island nation.

The state-of-the-art facility will provide health services to horses and serve as a working laboratory to support the College of Veterinary Medicine's student learning and research.

The center will be the first hub of the Indiana Information Sharing and Analysis Center in Indianapolis. It's a public-private partnership among the state, Purdue University and Intel.

The full Board of Trustees will decide Friday whether to approve the extension and the at-risk pay. That would bring his total compensation to $533,400.

Purdue University associate professor Monica Cox in the School of Engineering Education says her funding from the National Science Foundation will help the three-phase study look at topics including how women overcome the barriers many traditionally face in engineering.

For 13 years, Purdue University, Indianapolis Public Schools and the Indianapolis business community have provided a pathway for low income and first-generation college-bound students at IPS to graduate and attend Purdue. But the program -- Science Bound -- has remained largely under the radar. Now how a new name and alignment with a future school could change that.

The second year of a study gauging the happiness and success of college graduates sets its sights on a topic that's been widely discussed in Indiana: college affordability

The National Institutes of Health's funding will allow comparative pathobiology professor Suresh Mittal to continue working on that vaccine.

Scientists at Purdue University say they've found a corn disease not previously found in the U.S. in plant samples from a field in north-central Indiana.

Purdue said Monday its 6,800 first-year students represents an increase of more than 300 over last year's entering class.