1. Where Disciplines Converge
Name
Title
Date
Where Disciplines Converge
To Solve Global Challenges

2. Where Disciplines Converge
Name
Title
Date
Where Disciplines Converge
To Solve Global Challenges

3. Global Megatrends Discovery Park Boilerplate
Discovery Park is a place where Purdue researchers move beyond traditional boundaries, collaborating across disciplines and with policy makers and business leaders to create solutions for a better world. Grand challenges of global health, global conflict and security, and those that lie at the nexus of sustainable energy, world food supply, water and the environment are the focus of researchers in Discovery Park. World-changing interdisciplinary research is accelerated, transformative education is enriched and the translation of innovation to commercialization activities of faculty, students and staff are advanced at Discovery Park.
Brief Discovery Park Boilerplate
Discovery Park is an open laboratory for interdisciplinary collaboration focused on global challenges. Our mission is to accelerate world-changing interdisciplinary research, enrich transformative education and advance the translation of innovation to commercialization activities of faculty, students and staff.

4. Discovery Park Facilities
Burton D. Morgan
Bindley Bioscience
Birck Nanotechnology Building
Mann Hall
Drug Discovery
Discovery and Learning

5. Purdue University is a National Leader in Start-up Creation and Technology Licensing and Commercialization
2016: the 3rd year of record-breaking numbers

6. TACKLING GLOBAL CHALLENGES
Purdue’s Discovery Park is a Global Leader in Interdisciplinary, Convergence Research
TACKLING GLOBAL CHALLENGES
Discovery park is a $1.2B complex of facilities and centers for interdisciplinary research, entrepreneurship and innovations focused on meeting global challenges in areas of global health such as infectious disease, drug discovery, and neuroscience, and in global sustainability areas such as energy, water, resilience and climate change, and global food security. We bring science-based engineering approaches to problem solving and integrate policy and human factors analysis into the research we perform on these major global challenges. Furthermore, we ensure research impact by facilitating an environment that enables easy transition of new technologies to the market via start up creation, licensing and other strategic corporate ventures relationships. 
Engagement
annual
~1,000 faculty researchers work in Discovery Park every year
~320 graduate student researchers work in Discovery Park every year
~110 undergraduate students assist with research work in Discovery Park every year (primarily through our innovative Discovery Park Undergraduate Research Internship (DURI) Program)
~1,500 undergraduate students enroll/participate in our Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Innovation Program every year
historic
– Across Discovery Park’s history, ~3,000 graduate student researchers have worked in Discovery Park
– Across Discovery Park’s history, ~1,000 undergraduate students have assisted with research work in Discovery Park
– More than 5,000 Purdue students have participated in our Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Innovation Program across the program’s history
– 540 undergraduate students have participated in the Interns for Indiana (IfI) program, providing more than 211,500 hours of labor to 190 Indiana start-up companies

7. Global Megatrends and Societal Challenges

8. Strategic Themes Drive the Areas of Focus
Purdue Strengths
Converge at Discovery Park
The Science of Disease
Digital Health
Impacting Global Health
Impacting Global
Sustainability
Energy and Resources Innovation
The Science of Climate and Resiliency
Global Food and Nutrition Security
Impacting Global
Security
Advanced Electronics and Photonics
Propulsion, Energetics and Thermal Mgmt
Autonomy, Cognitive Systems and Cyber
Big Data/Simulation/Cybersecurity
Social and Behavioral Sciences
STEM
Advanced Instrumentation
Nanotechnology
Entrepreneurship
Complex Systems
PURDUE STRENGTH AND CORE COMPETENCIES
Outcomes:
New Discoveries · Enterprise Development · Policy and Economics · Interdisciplinary Talent

9. Strategic Themes