Purdue Professor Under Investigation

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(WEST LAFAYETTE) - The chair of a congressional subcommittee remains hopeful Purdue will cooperate with a request for an internal report into a professor’s research on “bubble fusion.”

But congressman Brad Miller from North Carolina believes the university has changed its response to his letter requesting documents. He says Purdue initially stated it would fully comply, but now the university is going through lawyers.

Miller's panel wants to make sure professor Rusi Taleyarkhan's claim that he obtained nuclear fusion by blasting sound waves into bubbles is legitimate. Questions about the research have been raised throughout the scientific community.

An internal probe by Purdue cleared Taleyarkhan of any misconduct. But Miller wants to be sure about the validity of bubble fusion.

Purdue has issued a statement saying it intends to comply with the committee's request. But it needs to go through lawyers because of certain legal obligations under university policy.

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