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Purdue University's ambitious endeavor to bring innovation through multidisciplinary action is setting its sights high, looking to achieve unprecedented goals. Discovery Park was established to create a combinational power greater than any individual strength, and to serve as a catalyst for drawing faculty, staff, and students to reach into other disciplines and projects in order to take Purdue to the cutting edge of academic work.

An environment where projects can flourish through shared talk, shared work, and shared innovation is the reward for creating a culture in the university setting that moves away from individual work done in isolation. Discovery Park aims to link Purdue University more closely with the Indiana and U.S. economies, further strengthening and defining those relationships.

Six centers are now in full operation: Birck Nanotechnology Center, Bindley Bioscience Center, e-Enterprise Center, Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Discovery Learning Center, and the Center for Advanced Manufacturing all have programs running. And with more initiatives on the way, it is apparent that Discovery Park will position Purdue University to be the leading model of the 21st century research university.

Governor Daniels spoke at Manufacturing Summit IV: Advancing Manufacturing in Indiana

Leaders of manufacturing enterprises met at the manufacturing summit May 25 on the Purdue campus to discuss how the university's 1-year-old Center for Advanced Manufacturing can work with Indiana industry to develop new processes and products.
Purdue University News Service Report on the Summit

Governor names new Homeland Security executive director
A Purdue University homeland security project leader who recently retired from the U.S. Army after a 22-year career will be the first executive director of the state’s Department of Homeland Security. Governor Mitch Daniels announced today that J. Eric Dietz, Ph.D., a Michigan City native who is the associate director of the e-Enterprise Center at Purdue’s Discovery Park, will lead the department, which combines the state’s emergency management and homeland security efforts.
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Four New Centers Announced for Discovery Park
Interim Vice Provost for Research and Executive Director of Discovery Park, Charles O. Rutledge, is pleased to announce a campus-wide competition to add up to four new centers to Discovery Park. In late January, the Lilly Endowment awarded $25 million in additional funding to Discovery Park. $10 million of this gift is designated to the creation of four new Discovery Park centers. New centers selected through this competition will be awarded one million dollars to endow a Director's position and an additional $500,000 per year for three years as seed funds to launch the center.
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Call for New Center Proposals: Frequently Asked Questions (PDF Download)
New Lilly Endowment Grant: To Increase the Scope of Discovery Park Activities (PPT Presentation)

Lilly Endowment grants $25 million to Purdue's Discovery Park
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue officials today (Friday, Jan. 21) announced that Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded the university a $25 million grant to start four new interdisciplinary research centers and to provide operational support for six existing centers at Discovery Park.

This grant, which was announced at the Birck Nanotechnology Center, brings Lilly Endowment's total commitment for Discovery Park, the university's interdisciplinary research, enterprise and education complex, to more than $50 million. In 2001, Lilly Endowment provided more than $25 million to help launch the park's first interdisciplinary centers.
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Purdue, Regenstrief establish center to re-engineer health-care delivery

The Regenstrief (REE-gen-streef) Foundation in Indianapolis is providing three-year start-up funding of $1 million annually, beginning in 2005, to launch the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering at Purdue.
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Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering at Purdue University: http://www.purdue.edu/rche

BDM Center for Entrepreneurship

Bindley Bioscience Center

Birck Nanotechnology Center

Three new centers are currently under construction in Discovery Park at Purdue University.
LIVE VIDEO STREAMS: Bindley Bioscience Center Birck Nanotechnology Center

The Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurship Center, funded by a major gift from Burton D. Morgan, will serve as the central "gathering place" for Discovery Park, providing meeting rooms, a reception area and a cafe. This $7 million, 31,000 sq. ft. facility will include a 72-seat lecture room, a presentation room, several conference rooms, and space for entrepreneurial outreach.

The Bindley Bioscience Center, funded by a major gift from William Bindley, will include research laboratories and staff offices to support interdisciplinary research in biosciences and biotechnology. This $15 million, 50,000 sq. ft. facility will serve as a focal point for interdisciplinary life sciences research on campus, and will connect directly to the Birck Nanotechnology Center.

The Birck Nanotechnology Center, funded through major gifts from Michael and Kay Birck and Donald and Carol Scifres, will include offices for 45 faculty, 21 staff, and 180 graduate students. This $58.3 million, 187,000-square-foot facility will include a 25,000 sq. ft. Class 10-100-1000 nanofabrication cleanroom and over 22,000 sq. ft. of specialized laboratories for nanoscale research and student training. In addition, a nanotechnology incubator facility is provided for interaction with industry.

Aerial Shot of Discovery Park Construction

Charles Rutledge, Director of Discovery Park, Provides a Construction Update (Windows Media File)