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News for faculty and staff

November 24, 2008

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Trustees recognize 5 professors, football coach

The Purdue Board of Trustees on Friday (Nov. 21) ratified the appointments of faculty to designated professorships and a center directorship. The trustees also approved a resolution naming Joe Tiller football coach emeritus and honoring him and his wife, Arnette, for their service. More

Trustees OK Wang Hall architect, master plans for two campuses

The Purdue Board of Trustees on Friday (Nov. 21) approved hiring an architect to plan Seng-Liang Wang Hall, the College of Engineering's new electrical and computer engineering building. The board also approved campus master plans for Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne and Purdue North Central. More

CAMPUS NEWS

Purdue police charge 2 in theft of vacuum cleaner

Purdue police have arrested two people for allegedly stealing a vacuum cleaner from the Recreational Sports Center. More

PEOPLE

Senior vice president honored for fundraising efforts

**Murray Blackwelder**

Murray Blackwelder, senior vice president for advancement at Purdue, was the recipient of the 2008 Outstanding Fundraising Executive Award from the Indiana chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Blackwelder received the award Tuesday (Nov. 18) at the 25th annual Philanthropy Awards Dinner in Indianapolis. More

Appointments, honors and activities

Here is a list of recent honors and appointments for faculty and staff. More

CALENDAR AND EVENTS

Events this week

Here is a list of events happening Nov. 24-30 at the West Lafayette campus. More

Purdue to show off first-year engineering learning lab

The School of Engineering Education will hold an open house today (Nov. 24) to showcase its new Ideas to Innovation Learning Laboratory. More

College of Science to host 'CSI' viewing party tonight

Purdue's College of Science will have a "CSI: Miami" viewing party for students and the Purdue community at 10 p.m. tonight (Nov. 24). The episode features technology created by R. Graham Cooks, Purdue's Henry Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry. Cooks will attend the party, which will be held in Union Commons on the ground floor of Purdue Memorial Union near Starbucks. The event is free and open to the public.

Symposium to focus on sustainable processes, policies and technologies inspired by nature

The Ecological Sciences and Engineering Graduate Program in Purdue's Center for Environment will lead a Dec. 5 symposium on biomimicry, an emerging discipline that draws inspiration from nature to design new products, systems and buildings. More

Purdue Research Park announces dates, nomination information for entrepreneurship program

Nominations for Indiana high school juniors and seniors in the 2009-2010 academic year are now being accepted for the third annual Purdue Research Park Entrepreneurship Academy. More

Black Cultural Center ensembles to perform at arts festival

Four performing arts ensembles from Purdue's Black Cultural Center on Dec. 5 will dramatize what they learned during a semester-long study of New Orleans' African-American art and culture after Hurricane Katrina. More

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