The autonomous service officially launched Monday, making Purdue the first in the state and Big 10 to bring the technology onto its campus.

The university has spent years repeating that it has no affiliation to Purdue Pharma, the Stamford, Connecticut-based pharmaceutical company that's the maker of the prescription painkiller OxyContin.

School officials had considered overhauling the building near the heart of the West Lafayette campus and possibly turning it into a dining and retail area.

The World Health Organization estimates that about 1 in 10 people become ill from consuming contaminated food every year.

The report says we need to devote less land to raising and feeding livestock and more to capturing emissions through things like cover crops, biofuels, and forests.

Purdue researchers are investigating the viability of solar power production on farmland, hoping their work in "aglectric" engineering will balance food and energy production.

Rolls-Royce announced a new partnership with Purdue University at the Cybertech Midwest conference in Indianapolis Wednesday.

The Cislunar Initiative aims to help manage space traffic and communication, create space policy and provide education programs for grade school students.

The exhibit is comprised of parts of Armstrongs life before, during and after the historic Apollo 11 mission.

Other schools in the state, such as the University of Notre Dame and Indiana University, have their own solar projects already underway.