In the spotlight

Expanded Pre-Award Services sets standard for aiding funding requests

Since expanding two years ago, Purdue's Pre-Award Services unit has helped nearly 2,200 faculty members submit more than 7,700 total research and grant proposals. The five total centers help faculty members who are working to create proposals for sponsor entities. Since the new centers were created, the success rate of faculty members using all five centers is more than 43 percent across all types of funding requests. Read more...

Featured News for Employees

Staff memorial to be held April 18

Staff members who have died during the past year will be honored and remembered at a ceremony on April 18. Read more...

Blackboard Users Group to focus on Blackboard Learn features, JetPack

JetPack, a new ITaP-designed publishing tool to create a mobile-ready course e-book, and the continuing transition from Blackboard Vista to Blackboard Learn will be the focuses of the Blackboard Users Group meeting on Tuesday (April 17). Read more...

General News

Purdue to celebrate current, new and future facilities

Purdue will dedicate a recently opened building, detail plans for several future buildings, mark the opening of a new library and celebrate the 10th anniversary of Discovery Park during the last two weeks of April. Read more...

Innovative car seat buckle, suitcase handle take top spots at Purdue Elevator Pitch Competition

A kid-friendly car seat-belt device and an innovative suitcase handle provided the winning pitches at the 2012 Purdue University Elevator Pitch Competition in Discovery Park's Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship. Read more...

Purdue Sports

Purdue football's spring game set for Saturday

The Purdue football team will hold its annual spring game at 1 p.m. Saturday. The Ross-Ade Stadium gates will open at noon, but a host of related events will begin even earlier. Read more...

For more information on Purdue sports, go to www.purduesports.com.

Events

• This week's events
• Events for the next four weeks

• Retired four-star Gen. Keys to give Purdue lecture on energy and national security

• Salvendy Symposium to highlight lasers, photonic systems

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