WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana, July 10 -- Purdue University issued the following news release: * * * Purdue Institute for Digital Forestry calls upon universitywide collaborators to meet this goal * * * The National Interagency Fire Center reports that, as of this writing, 19,444 fires have burned 2,161,787 acres in the United States alone. Land managers and governments are waging a high-stakes battle against decades-long wildfire increases. Technology can play a critical role in extinguishing tha  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, July 9 -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news: Richard Caprioli, Stanford Moore Chair in Biochemistry and Director of the Mass Spectrometry Research Center It started with a hacksaw and a multimillion-dollar instrument. Richard Caprioli, then a postdoctoral fellow, was given the hacksaw to cut the instrument in half during his first day in the lab of John Beynon, professor of chemistry at Purdue University and author of one of the earliest books on mass spectr  more