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The Purdue panel said Rusi Taleyarkhan misled the scientific community by claiming his "bubble fusion" findings had been independently replicated.

·11250 Waples Mill Road ·   Fairfax, Virginia 22030    ·800-392-8683   Georgia: Governor Perdue Signs Monumental Right-to-Carry Reform Bill!   Wednesday, May 14, 2008   Please Thank Governor Perdue Today!Today, Wednesday, May 14, Governor Sonny Perdue (R) signed House Bill 89 into law. This NRA supported measure makes numerous improvements to Georgia’s Right-to-Carry laws and represents the most comprehensive pro-gun reform measure to be enacted in nearly 20 years. This critical Right-to-Carry Reform legislation will strengthen Georgia’s current laws by: allowing licensed carry permit holders to possess a firearm in any private motor vehicle, while on any publicly accessible parking lot; prohibiting...

The May 9 edition of the New York Post carries a short article by an Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis student named Keith John Sampson. He tells a story of how he was charged with "racial harassment" simply because he was "caught" reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan book. I'm not kidding.  Sampson tells his story: The book was Todd Tucker's 'Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan'; I was reading it on break from my campus job as a janitor. The same book is in the university library . . . . But that didn't...

Network aims to offer more Big Ten programming than ever before CHICAGO – The much-anticipated launch of the Big Ten Network is here, with the network going on the air at 8 p.m. ET with a special edition of Big Ten Tonight. "We're tremendously excited to make television history with the launch of the Big Ten Network on Thursday night," Network President Mark Silverman said. "Fans will enjoy more Big Ten programming than ever before. I think fans will look back years from now and wonder how they ever followed their teams without the Big Ten Network." The network's launch...

Ind. grad student convicted of threatening to kill Bush By The Associated Press 06.29.07 HAMMOND, Ind. — A Purdue University graduate student was convicted of threatening to kill President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and others in postings on the Internet. Vikram Buddhi, 35, an Indian national who was attending advanced engineering classes at Purdue’s West Lafayette campus, was found guilty by a federal jury yesterday on 11 counts of making threats that were posted in a chat room in 2005 and 2006. Buddhi faces up to 35 years in prison when he is sentenced later this year. Buddhi hijacked...

HAMMOND, Ind. - A federal trial was expected to start Monday for a Purdue University graduate student facing charges of threatening the life of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, their wives and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Vikram S. Buddhi faces 11 counts in U.S. District Court for comments he made in an Internet chat room in 2005 and 2006. Buddhi is an Indian national who was attending advanced engineering classes at Purdue's West Lafayette campus. The indictment also alleges that he called for bombings of American infrastructure. The messages were posted on Yahoo! Finance message boards. Prosecutors...

A computer simulation of the 2001 World Trade Center attacks supports a federal agency’s findings that the initial impact from the hijacked airplanes stripped away crucial fireproofing material and that the weakened towers collapsed under their own weight. The two-year Purdue University study, funded in part by the National Science Foundation, was the first to use 3-D animation to provide visual context to the attacks, said Christoph Hoffmann, a professor of computer science and one of the lead researchers on the project. “One thing it does point out… is the absolute essential nature of fireproofing steel structures,” Hoffmann told The...

HAMMOND, Ind. -- A Federal judge refused to throw out a Purdue University student's indictment on charges alleging he urged the assassination of President George Bush and made threats against other administration officials. Friday's ruling by U.S. District Court Judge James Moody clears the way for Vikram Buddhi's trial to begin June 25 in Moody's Hammond courtroom. Buddhi, an Indian national who was attending advanced engineering classes at Purdue's West Lafayette campus, faces an 11-count complaint for alleged comments he made in an Internet chat room in 2005 and 2006. The indictment alleges that he made threats against the president,...

Alex Agase, who coached Northwestern's football team for nine years after a storied college career in which he became the only player to win All-America honors at two schools, died Thursday in a hospital near his home in Tarpon Springs, Fla. He was 85. Funeral arrangements are pending for Agase, a World War II veteran who fought at Iwo Jima and Okinawa and received a Purple Heart. Agase, an Evanston High School alumnus, first served as an assistant to Ara Parseghian at Northwestern from 1956 to '63, then succeeded Parseghian, who left to coach Notre Dame. He remained the Wildcats'...

Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Department embarrasses Purdue with Sheehan visit Publication Date: 04/10/07 What qualifies Cindy Sheehan to speak at Purdue? Does she hold an advanced degree in foreign relations? Has she physically been in Iraq meeting with the local people? Has she done research that those with PhDs can discuss as thoughtful? Or is she a vengeful, hateful person who can not deal with her own son's death? Cindy Sheehan needs to be in therapy. She should not be touring the country like she has knowledge on the conflict in Iraq because she does not. Obviously, the political science...

Cindy Sheehan will be speaking at Indiana State University on April 13, 2007 at 1 p.m. in room 102 at Holmstedt Hall. From Terre Haute she will travel on to Indianapolis to the Midwest Peace Summit. Cindy Sheehan will be in Indy by 5 p.m. She will give the keynote speech at the Midwest Peace Submit in Indianapolis on the IUPUI campus at 8 p.m.

Thursday, March 29, 2007 Anti-American speakers have no place on campus Publication Date: 03/29/07 As a 1995 graduate of the political science program, I am very much dismayed to learn that the department is helping to underwrite an on-campus appearance by Cindy Sheehan next month. There is nothing at all wrong with the department assisting financially to host a forum at which a learned, accomplished and reasonable speaker will appear to discuss controversial issues and interact with students. Yet the department not only wastes valuable resources in helping to host someone like Ms. Sheehan, it insults the intelligence of Purdue...

Thursday, March 29, 2007 Purdue provides students with biased lecturers Publication Date: 03/29/07 Universities were once a place where ideas and opinions could be shared openly and freely among faculty, staff and students. Unfortunately, Purdue has stepped over the line and made our University a place with a political agenda. Its sponsorship of Cindy Sheehan, a left-leaning political activist, has left community members in dismay and tax-payers angry. Last year, when University students widely publicized bringing Ann Coulter to campus, no University funds were offered, so these brave students raised the money themselves and promoted the event alone. Without pressure...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The parents of a missing Purdue University student on Friday (Jan. 19) announced a reward is being offered for information leading to his whereabouts. Wade S. Steffey, 19, a freshman from Bloomington, Ind., has been missing for nearly a week. Steffey, a National Merit Scholar majoring in aviation technology, was last seen early Saturday (Jan. 13). "More than 350 volunteers helped explore a large area of campus during an organized search on Thursday," said Purdue spokesperson Jeanne Norberg. "We hope this reward will generate additional interest and encourage someone to come forward with information that helps...

Hundreds of volunteers joined police officers Thursday in an hours-long search around the Purdue University campus for a freshman missing since the weekend. Wade S. Steffey, 19, of Bloomington was last seen early Saturday leaving a party at the Phi Kappa Theta fraternity house on the north side of campus, police said. Searchers spent Thursday checking campus buildings, along with places such as the campus golf courses, Purdue's horticulture park and some near-campus neighborhoods and wooded areas. The search concluded at nightfall without Steffey being found, Purdue spokeswoman Jeanne Norberg said. "It's really humbling and very heartwarming to see all...

Meet George "Sonny" Purdue, the most popular major-state Republican governor in America. In a year of devestating losses, he handily beat his Democratic challenger by a 3-to-2 margin. Gov. Purdue is a vet in two ways: He is a former Air Force Captain and a Doctor of Veterinary medicine. With his wife, Mary, he is a father of four children, and foster parent of eight. He was also a University of Georgia walk-on quarterback, and will appear as a coach in the movie, "We Are Marshall" Since his election in 2002, Georgia has improved from 50th in the nation on...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Researchers at Purdue University have created a simulation that uses scientific principles to study in detail what likely happened when a commercial airliner crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower on Sept. 11, 2001. The simulation could be used to better understand which elements in the building's structural core were affected, how they responded to the initial shock of the aircraft collision, and how the tower later collapsed from the ensuing fire fed by an estimated 10,000 gallons of jet fuel, said Mete Sozen, the Kettelhut Distinguished Professor of Structural Engineering in Purdue's School of...

Most of the speculation of who will be the next President focuses on senators, who almost always lose. This article examines some of the other potential nominees who have gotten less attention. Keep in mind that most presidential nominees were not among the most-discussed candidates two years before the election. Sonny Purdue is the most popular governor of any state with more than five electoral votes, and his overall approval ratings have taken off while he takes on more and more positions which drive Democratic voters nuts: reversing his Democratic predecessor's centralization of pedagogic education, refusing to allow aliens to...

News ArchiveDeath sentence in China for murder here September 7, 2006 BEIJING -- A former Purdue University graduate student has been sentenced to death for murdering her husband in Indiana and hiding his dismembered body in the trunk of a car that was found in Rosemont, state media said Wednesday. Shanghai's No. 1 Intermediate court sentenced Danlei Chen, 29, to death with a two-year reprieve on Monday, the People's Daily newspaper said. Such sentences are routinely commuted to life in prison if the inmate is cooperative. Chen also was ordered to pay the parents of her husband Lei He $55,000...

Bush death threat tied to PU student By Danielle Braff Post-Tribune staff writer A Purdue University graduate student was arrested and charged with threatening to kill President George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Vikram Buddhi allegedly posted the detailed and threatening messages on an online message board. Buddhi has been studying industrial engineering at the university, having moved temporarily from India to his new home in West Lafayette 10 years ago on a student visa. He was originally hired as a teaching assistant in the math department but was removed from...

A Purdue University graduate student was arrested and charged with threatening to kill President George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Vikram Buddhi allegedly posted the detailed and threatening messages on an online message board.

ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANAPOLIS -- Purdue University is investigating allegations that a scientist thwarted his colleagues' efforts to test his claims of producing nuclear fusion in tabletop experiments, even going so far as to remove high-tech equipment from a shared lab. Several Purdue researchers said Rusi Taleyarkhan, a Purdue professor of nuclear engineering, has stymied their attempts to verify - or refute - aspects of his controversial "bubble fusion" experiments since late 2003, when he joined Purdue's faculty. In an article published online Wednesday in the journal Nature, they said their confidence in his work at Purdue and previously at Oak...

Sonofusion Experiment Produces Results Without External Neutron Source A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Purdue University, and the Russian Academy of Sciences has used sound waves to induce nuclear fusion without the need for an external neutron source, according to a paper in the Jan. 27 issue of Physical Review Letters. The results address one of the most prominent questions raised after publication of the team’s earlier results in 2004, suggesting that “sonofusion” may be a viable approach to producing neutrons for a variety of applications. By bombarding a special mixture of acetone and benzene with oscillating sound...

Purdue Christmas tree gets name back December 8, 2005 WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The Norwegian spruce in the Purdue Memorial Union's Great Hall is a Christmas tree again. The Purdue Student Union Board, which had christened the 28-foot tree the ''Union tree'' in the interest of diversity, voted this week to return to the traditional name. The decision followed a lengthy discussion over what the tree has been called over the years -- and why, said Heather Owen, program director at the Purdue Memorial Union. The decision to refer to the tree as the ''Union tree'' drew criticism from some...

A widely criticized effort three years ago to create low-cost tabletop nuclear fusion could gain new support following an experiment at Purdue University. Taking the basic apparatus used in 2002, two Purdue researchers refined the experiment and published new results that once again seem to prove that nuclear fusion was taking place. If it proves to be real, the new approach might lead to a genuine new source of energy. An inexpensive, practical method of controlling nuclear fusion could revolutionize energy production, so any hint of a breakthrough in that direction generates high interest among both the technical community and...

When acetone – better known as nail polish remover – is ultrasonically resonated and irradiated by neutrons, nuclear fusion will occur. That is the claim of the two young physicists Dr. Yiban Xu and Adam Butt from the American Purdue University. "Cavitation is the phenomenon in which liquid is fractured and a void is formed to form cavities composed of gas and/or vapour", explains Xu. If the acetone is put into resonance using a piezo-crystal, gas bubbles are formed which subsequently store potential energy in the acoustic field. To ensure that the bubbles get larger than a critical value, the...

United States still faces obstacles after tackling many security issues By Adam Hines Staff Writer The United States has hit and destroyed the terrorist beehive, but there are still bees left to kill, said a former national security adviser. Sandy Berger, who served with the Clinton administrations, said that America has made a lot of strides when it comes to homeland security and the war on terror, but it’s not done yet. "To me the great danger is the complacency we have fallen into three and a half years after 9/11," she said. Berger was part of a cast that...

Knight's Chair Toss Still Leaves a Mark By MICHAEL MAROT > AP Sports Writer > BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Those closest to Steve Reid know him as president of a trucking company, a former teammate, and a dad. Some even remember him as a color commentator on Purdue basketball broadcasts. However, most others know Reid as the answer to a trivia question. For 20 years, his life has been defined by one enduring image — Bob Knight hurling a red, plastic chair across the basketball court as the 5-foot-9 Reid stood at the free throw line for Purdue. "There are times...

National Terrorism, Technology Experts to Speak at Purdue Source: Purdue University Released: Wed 09-Feb-2005, 16:30 ET Description National government and industry experts, including former nuclear weapons inspector David Kay, will speak during a panel discussion on Feb. 24 at Purdue University about new technologies needed to protect America from terrorist attacks. Newswise — National government and industry experts, including former nuclear weapons inspector David Kay, will speak during a panel discussion on Feb. 24 at Purdue University about new technologies needed to protect America from terrorist attacks. "Homeland Security: Engineering a Safer Tomorrow" will begin at 7 p.m. in the...

North Carolina General AssemblySenator Phil Berger, Office of the Republican Leader, North Carolina Senate 1121 Legislative Building, Raleigh, NC 27601 (919) 733-5708 North Carolina Senate Republican Caucus NOTE: According the Rules of the Senate of North Carolina (2005), any Member, with the permission of the Presiding Officer, at the end of the days' calendared business, may address the Body for up to three minutes on a "moment of personal privilege." The only topics restricted are remarks about specific persons or about any specific piece of legislation. On Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2005, Senator Robert Pittenger asked and was given permission...

Professor Harry Targ is the director for the Peace Studies program at Purdue University, a state college in the Indiana system. Professor Targ is a member of the National Executive Committee of the “Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS).” This is a faction of the Communist Party USA that was expelled in 1991 for opposing the hard-liner coup against the Soviet Union’s last dictator Mikhail Gorbachev. Targ’s views on the questions of war and peace are standard Communist doctrine: “We need to clarify the connections between U.S. capitalism, global conquest, and visions of empire…we need to discover where...

Kyle Orton may have made a mistake when he started talking about politics with the media. The result of that was the senior quarterback having to field questions about politics nearly every week at the team’s press conference.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Researchers at Purdue University have developed a method that will enable authorities to trace documents to specific printers, a technique law-enforcement agencies could use to investigate counterfeiting, forgeries and homeland security matters. The technique uses two methods to trace a document: first, by analyzing a document to identify characteristics that are unique for each printer, and second by designing printers to purposely embed individualized characteristics in documents. The technique currently focuses on laser printers but eventually will be expanded to inkjet printers, said Edward J. Delp, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue. Findings...

John Kerry's spokesman on veterans issues, John Hurley announced on Fox News Sunday August 22 that John Kerry was right when he accused US troops of committing atrocities against civilians "on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command." Why would Hurley continue to repeat John Kerry's malicious slanders knowing that they had been completely discredited? Furthermore, why is the media trying to give credibility to the views of this John Kerry spokesman on veterans issues even though he has been exposed as a calculating liar? Well, I don't think I need repeat...

Milwaukeean struggles with the feeling that he's an outsider both on campus and back home It's a frigid Saturday morning in November, but the Purdue University students do not seem to feel the cold. They spill in and out of main street pubs, dressed in an assortment of flesh-exposing costumes, revving themselves up for the afternoon's football game against Iowa. They are safe and self-assured. This moment is all that matters. Corey Benson, a Purdue freshman, left behind the urban neighborhoods of Milwaukee's north side for the sheltered structure of this campus, an engineer's dream. He doubts that he would...

Source: Purdue University Date: 12/17/2002 Purdue Research Hints That Birds Could Spread Ebola Virus WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Ebola shares a closer relationship with several bird viruses than was previously thought, bolstering the case for a common ancestor and hinting that birds might carry the deadly virus, a Purdue University research team reports. David Sanders and his research group have discovered that the outer protein shell of Ebola has a biochemical structure similar to several retroviruses carried by birds. As scientists had known previously of genetic similarity among the viruses, this discovery makes a common evolutionary origin even more likely....

Liberals must learn when to fight terrorism I am now convinced the "liberal" population of the United States is incapable of learning. We keep hearing from the Democrats, Independents or other liberals that we shouldn?t conduct a pre-emptive strike on Iraq. These people just don?t learn. What is it going to take? The World Trade Center was bombed the first time, two American embassies were bombed simultaneously in Africa, the USS Cole was bombed, plus more smaller attacks most people aren?t familiar with. And who was in the Oval Office during all of these attacks? Bill Clinton (Democrat!). And what...