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News for faculty and staff

June 9, 2008

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Operation Purple Camp provides fun, support

Counselor Frank Baute gives instructions during a judo activity to Operation Purple Camp participants Hanna Richards of Rossville (top) and Keliann Mast of Lafayette on Thursday (June 5) at Purdue's Recreational Sports Center. More than 40 children from Indiana are participating this week in the free national summer camp aimed at offering support in a fun atmosphere to the children of military families. Purdue's Military Family Research Institute and the Department of Health and Kinesiology planned and organized the Purdue camp, which lasted through Saturday. (Purdue News Service photo/David Umberger) More

FEATURED NEWS FOR EMPLOYEES

Chat sessions to provide assistance with Fulbright application

For those faculty applying to the Fulbright Scholar program, the Council for International Exchange of Scholars is providing organized chat sessions to help answer questions on the Fulbright application and application procedures. More

GENERAL NEWS

Indian researcher headlines Discovery Lecture Series on global collaboration

**C.N.R. Rao**

The chairman of the Science Advisory Council to India's prime minister is the keynote speaker at Purdue's Discovery Lecture Series event on June 18, outlining how India is reaching out to the international research community. C.N.R. Rao, the Linus Pauling Research Professor and honorary president of the Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, will headline the free event, called United States and India: Science, Policy and Funding Opportunities for Two Giant Democracies. The program begins at 3:30 p.m. in the Lawson Computer Science Building, Room 1142. More

Purdue to host educators interested in service-learning engineering

A summer program that provides high school teachers and administrators with the tools and resources needed to implement design-based, service-learning engineering projects for their students will host two sessions. More

Dedication, house blessing planned for Purdue Research Park companies' Habitat for Humanity project

The dream of having a home with a white picket fence became reality for Lafayette resident Marjorie "Margie" Britton when the Purdue Research Park companies' Habitat for Humanity of Lafayette home was dedicated on Sunday (June 8). More

Johnson County program for women, families wins Purdue award

A prenatal educational and resource program in Franklin, Ind., is the winner of the seventh annual Inspiring Families and Building Communities Award, sponsored by Purdue's College of Consumer and Family Sciences. More

Economist: Ethanol only part of story behind high corn prices

Those who blame ethanol for high corn prices need to dig deeper - oil well deep, said a Purdue agricultural economist. More

Purdue groups to hold memorial service for earthquake victims

Members of the Purdue community will gather at 7 p.m. June 12 to remember the victims of the earthquake that occurred in China's Sichuan province last month. More