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April 11, 2014
In the Spotlight
In the fall, the Engineering Administration Building (left) and the retired Heating and Power Plant-North (right) -- two campus buildings that have been instrumental in the history of Purdue -- will no longer appear on campus maps. The buildings will be torn down at the end of this academic year to make way for the Active Learning Center.
* A photo gallery by Mark Simons in the Office of Marketing and Media takes a look inside the retired Heating and Power Plant-North. The photos will be used in a publication documenting the history of the power plant and construction/evolution of the Active Learning Center.
Faculty and staff news
If you use popular websites such as Gmail and Facebook, an encryption flaw called the Heartbleed bug may have exposed your sensitive account information -- including passwords and credit card numbers. As ITaP monitors Purdue systems for vulnerabilities, administrators encourage faculty, staff and students to change their passwords on all social, email, banking and commerce websites, as well as their Purdue passwords.
The Purdue University Police Department is reminding faculty and staff about the University's obligations regarding the reporting of crime statistics and the responsibilities of those on campus who qualify as a campus security authority (CSA) under federal law. Chief John Cox reissued a memo today (April 11) about crime statistics and related reporting obligations to those identified on campus as CSAs.
The Center for Healthy Living has added two online tobacco cessation programs to its Web portal. The programs are available to all benefits-eligible faculty and staff system-wide. Spouses and same-sex domestic partners covered on a Purdue medical plan are also eligible for the programs.
CHS Health Services, the company that runs the Center for Healthy Living for Purdue, has announced that Water Street Healthcare Partners, a health care industry investor, has signed agreements to become the majority investor in both CHS and Take Care Employer Solutions. Take Care is a Walgreens subsidiary that manages hundreds of worksite health care centers nationwide.
The Receiving in Ariba quick reference card (QRC) is available on the Business@Purdue website.
Research news
A Purdue experiment that will test how plant cells sense and respond to different levels of gravity is scheduled to launch aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Monday (April 14).
Panel discussions and presentations are planned at a meeting this month for the second phase of the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI), a partnership among Purdue, Indiana University and the University of Notre Dame.
Purdue University Libraries and Press, the College of Liberal Arts, the Global Policy Research Institute and Discovery Park have received a $539,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support collaborations of humanists, social scientists and STEM faculty in addressing large-scale public policy problems. Faculty proposals are being sought as part of the project, and an informational workshop will be held May 1.
General news
Eugene Cernan, the most recent person to walk on the moon, was recognized Thursday evening (April 10) during an invitation-only reception at Purdue's Mackey Arena for donating an Apollo 17 Lunar Roving Vehicle mapbook to the University.
* Cernan will be one of seven Purdue NASA astronaut alumni who will discuss their experiences in space and their thoughts on the future of human space flight at a public forum at 7 p.m. Saturday (April 12) in Elliott Hall of Music. The forum is free, but tickets are required.
A partnership between Purdue Research Foundation and Universidad de Caldas in Manizales, Caldas, Colombia brought two Colombian university officials to Purdue's Office of Technology Commercialization as part of a 10-month project to increase commercialization activities for both entities.
For dozens of international and domestic students in the College of Science, living, eating and hanging out together is as educational as it is fun thanks to the Global Science Partners program.
A video project has allowed Purdue senior Sam Evenson to combine two of his favorite things: Purdue and the television series "Game of Thrones."
The National Student Employment Association (NSEA) and Student Employment Services in Purdue's Division of Financial Aid, along with universities across the country, encourage campus and community employers to recognize their student employees during National Student Employment Week on April 13-19.
Purdue sports
The Purdue men's tennis team will close its home season with matches against No. 16 Penn State at 1 p.m. today (April 11) and top-ranked Ohio State at noon Sunday (April 13), both at Schwartz Tennis Center.
For more information on Purdue sports, go to www.purduesports.com.
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