Purdue Today

News for faculty and staff

November 5, 2007

FEATURED NEWS FOR EMPLOYEES

OnePurdue town hall about student systems is today

Faculty and staff are invited to attend a OnePurdue Town Hall meeting today to learn how OnePurdue will affect the financial aid, bursar/student accounts, admission, and registrar business processes and systems. More

GENERAL NEWS

Purdue, community officials celebrate opening of new MRI center to focus on patient care, research

**A. Brightman and L. Young with magnetic imaging machine**

About 150 people gathered Friday (Nov. 2) to celebrate the dedication of the LakeView Technology Center, a building that will provide space for a high-powered magnetic resonance imaging facility to be used for patient care and research.

The 7,800-square-foot MRI center, called InnerVision West, provides a 3-Tesla MRI scanner that offers enhanced resolution over conventional 1.5-Tesla MRI scanners. It is the first machine of this field strength in north-central Indiana. More

Purdue band fundraising efforts surpass halfway point

**Block P formation**

The Purdue "All-American" Marching Band has surpassed the halfway point in its goal of raising $100,000 for a spring trip to China.

Donations totaling $53,400 have been collected so far to help finance the band's trip to Beijing to perform in the Meet in Beijing International Arts and Music Festival in late May. The event is a leadup to the 2008 Olympics there. More

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences honors distinguished alumni

Purdue's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences on Friday (Nov. 2) honored six alumni and friends as the 2007 Distinguished Alumni and Friends of Pharmacy. More

Purdue named NSF high-performance computing center

Purdue has been selected as one of five High Performance Computing Operations centers, and will receive a $1.7 million grant to go with the distinction. More

PEOPLE

Six Purdue students to present at Automation Fair in Chicago

Students from the Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology will demonstrate the latest in manufacturing technology when they attend the annual Automation Fair on Nov. 14-15 in Chicago. More

Director named for Discovery Park's Oncological Sciences Center

**Marietta Harrison**

A professor of medicinal chemistry and molecular pharmacology in Purdue's College of Pharmacy, Nursing and Health Sciences will become director of Discovery Park's Oncological Sciences Center, officials announced Friday (Nov. 2).

Marietta Harrison, who has been interim director of the center since its launch in July 2005, will lead the Oncological Sciences Center as it integrates the broad areas of research in life sciences, liberal arts, engineering and chemical sciences to focus on wider aspects of the cancer problem, said Alan H. Rebar, executive director of Purdue's Discovery Park. More

Appointments, promotions, honors

— Kristi Atkins has joined advancement as the financial stewardship administrator.

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CALENDAR AND EVENTS

Events today at Purdue

Here is a list of events happening Nov. 5 at the West Lafayette campus. More

Events this week

Here is a list of events happening Nov. 5-11 at the West Lafayette campus. More

Liberal Arts celebrating Islamic culture in November

Purdue's College of Liberal Arts is using a series of five events in November to highlight the various dimensions of Islamic culture. More

Purdue colloquium to explore humanity of cancer through literature

The Oncological Sciences Center in Discovery Park and the Department of English on Nov. 15 and 16 will lead the inaugural Cancer Culture and Community Colloquium, an event that will explore cancer through literature and the arts. More

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