April 27, 2012
In the spotlight
Purdue Farmers Market to open in
new location
Starting May 3, the Purdue Farmers Market will return with new hours in a new location to offer fruits, vegetables, crafts and other goods every Thursday through Oct. 25. The market will be open from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. It will be located in a spot on Centennial Mall between Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry and Stanley Coulter Hall. Read more...
Featured News for Employees
Convocation recognizes faculty for international and national honors, teaching excellence, years of service
Faculty members were recognized Thursday (April 26) for international and national awards, University and college honors, and distinguished and named professorships at the Faculty Awards Convocation. The convocation also honored faculty for their years of service. Read more...
Morrill Award recognizes faculty's outstanding
career achievements
A new annual award honoring West Lafayette faculty members' outstanding career achievements was presented at the Faculty Awards Convocation on April 26. Read more...
Registration deadline for some Spring Fling events approaching; event policies assist participation
Registration for Spring Fling, the annual appreciation event for faculty, staff, graduate student staff and retirees, will be accepted through 5 p.m. Friday (May 4). Read more...
Nutrition consultations available through
WorkLife Programs
WorkLife Programs are offering free nutrition counseling with a registered dietitian. Read more...
General News
Purdue to celebrate center dedicated to student
excellence, leadership
Today, Purdue will celebrate a new student-centered facility that will be the focal point of a campus area dedicated to encouraging student excellence and leadership. Read more...
 Arbor Day tree planting
Brenda Carton (left), a student and landscape maintenance staff member, and Dave Cramer and Christy Dixon, both systems administrators in the College of Liberal Arts, plant trees near Lynn Hall on Thursday (April 26). Students, faculty and staff celebrated Arbor Day by helping to plant 60 trees along Harrison Street. Through a tree-planting grant program, Purdue received the trees from the Arbor Day Foundation and Toyota.
Purdue Research Foundation assumes oversight
of AMIPurdue
The Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Biomedical Engineering (AEMFBE) and Purdue Research Foundation (PRF) have agreed to end their collaboration at the request of Alfred Mann. Read more...
Purdue campuses to host commencement ceremonies
Purdue will award degrees during spring commencement ceremonies at its campuses May 11 through 22.
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Purdue Sports
Photos of 2011-12 Purdue men's basketball season available online
During the 2011-12 season, the Purdue men's basketball team won 20 games for the sixth consecutive year and made its sixth straight NCAA tournament appearance. Some of the best photos from the season are are available here.
Purdue basketball standouts to attend scholar-athelete banquet in Merrillville
Robbie Hummel, Leroy Keyes and Kurt Lichtenberg will be among the Boilermakers participating in a scholar-athlete banquet on May 6 in Merrillville. The banquet is sponsored by the National Football Foundation's Joe Tiller Chapter of Northwest Indiana.
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Softball summer camp signups now open
The Purdue softball team's staff members and student-athletes will work with youngsters during a pair of summer camps July 16 through 18. Read more...
For more information on Purdue sports, go to www.purduesports.com.
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Murphy Award recipients
Six exceptional teachers were honored with 2012 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Awards in Memory of Charles B. Murphy at the Faculty Awards Convocation on Thursday (April 26). Purdue Today will feature profiles on each of the recipients. Today, we focus on Dor Ben-Amotz, professor of chemistry. Read more...
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