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May 5, 2008FEATURED NEWS FOR EMPLOYEES
Meeting set to begin planning Homecoming 2008
Organizers of Homecoming 2008 will have a meeting May 7 to begin planning the weekend's events. MorePurdue Today schedule for summer break
Purdue Today will reduce its publishing schedule to two or three times a week from May 12 through Aug. 15. Regular publishing days during the summer will be Monday and Thursday. Daily publication will resume Aug. 18. To submit items for Purdue Today, go to https://www.purdue.edu/uns/PurdueToday/MEMOS
To West Lafayette faculty and staff: Custodial and grounds services during summer
This memo from Martha May, senior director for buildings and grounds in Physical Facilities, addresses custodial and grounds services for the summer months. MemoRESEARCH NEWS, SPECIAL REPORTS
Imaging yields insights into 'nanomedicine' for cancer treatment
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The synthetic "polymer micelles" are drug-delivery spheres 60-100 nanometers in diameter, or roughly 100 times smaller than a red blood cell. The spheres harbor drugs in their inner core and contain an outer shell made of a material called polyethylene glycol. More
CAMPUS NEWS
Elementary book distribution honors memory of Purdue professor
Faculty and staff from Purdue's College of Education will distribute books to first-graders in the third annual effort to honor the memory of a literacy and language professor. MoreCERIAS ranked as nation's top information security program
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Academic Analytics LLC, which is partially funded by the State University of New York at Stony Brook, ranks faculty members' scholarly output in 8,182 doctoral programs at 387 of the nation's universities. Its report on the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index identified 11 faculty affiliated with Purdue's center -- also called CERIAS -- for their productivity. More
Energy, environment key to air conditioning, refrigeration conferences
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The conferences, held every two years, have drawn about 10 percent more technical abstracts this year, largely because of special sessions focusing on energy-conserving technologies. Engineers will present findings on technologies such as solar-assisted designs, more efficient heat pumps for space heating in buildings and domestic water heating, compressors that integrate devices to recover energy ordinarily lost, systems that use naturally occurring "green working fluids" such as air as a refrigerant, and designs that modify the conventional "vapor compression cycle" behind refrigeration. More
GENERAL NEWS
College of Technology at Columbus awards its first bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering technology
The Purdue College of Technology at Columbus will award its first bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering technology at its graduation ceremony Tuesday (May 6). MorePEOPLE
Appointments, honors and awards
Here is a list of recent accomplishments by faculty and staff. More
PNC chancellor named to Campus Compact board
Purdue University North Central Chancellor James B. Dworkin has been elected to the national Campus Compact Board of Directors. His term will begin in July. MoreChief academic officer appointed at Purdue Calumet
An accomplished higher education administrator and engineer has been appointed to the chief academic post at Purdue University Calumet. MoreEight faculty earn Distance Ed Incentive Awards
ITaP's Teaching and Learning Technologies' Instructional Development Center (IDC) awarded cash prizes to eight Purdue faculty members for developing high-quality distance education classes in 2007. More
CALENDAR AND EVENTS
Events this week
Here is a list of events happening May 5-11 at the West Lafayette campus. More
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