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May 5, 2014 In the Spotlight
Purdue's Discovery Park surpasses $1 billion milestone in research investments, impactAn effort to focus and bolster interdisciplinary research activities just 13 years ago is now a $1 billion enterprise at Purdue. Discovery Park, launched in October 2001 with a $26 million grant from Lilly Endowment, has surpassed the $1 billion milestone based on the amount of generated sponsored research, private gifts and endowments, Purdue officials announced Friday (May 2). Faculty and staff newsGallup-Purdue Index to release national findings TuesdayPresident Mitch Daniels will join executives from Gallup and Lumina Foundation on Tuesday (May 6) as results are presented from the initial Gallup-Purdue Index National Report, a comprehensive, nationally representative study of college graduates with Internet access living in the United States. CSSAC sponsoring Purdue Days at Indiana BeachThe Purdue Employees Activity Program, a subcommittee of the Clerical and Service Staff Advisory Committee, is sponsoring another Go On Your Own (GOYO) event, Purdue Days at Indiana Beach. This week's 'Thumbs Up' recipients"Thumbs Up" gives faculty and staff the chance to recognize others on campus for a job well done. * Purdue Today would like to hear about those people whose hard work and commitment contribute to the success of the University as well as make Purdue a wonderful environment within which to work. To submit an item for "Thumbs Up," click here. Research newsPurdue MERS experts working on way to block dangerous virusA team of Purdue researchers is creating molecules designed to shut down the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, or MERS-CoV, that recently arrived in the United States. General news
Cummins CEO outlines company's global sustainability effortsTom Linebarger, Cummins Inc. chairman and chief executive officer, and President Mitch Daniels talk after Linebarger's lecture on Friday (May 2) in the Deans Auditorium at Pfendler Hall. Linebarger outlined the Indiana-based company's environmental sustainability plans for a cleaner, healthier and safer environment in a lecture titled "Driving Global Success through Environmental Sustainability." Daniels provided opening remarks, and political science professor Leigh Raymond, director of the Purdue Center for the Environment, moderated a Q&A session with Linebarger. A video of the lecture is here. Undergraduates present research to members of Congress at annual eventTwo undergraduate students represented Purdue on Tuesday and Wednesday (April 28 and 29) at the 18th annual Posters on the Hill event in Washington, D.C. WBAA reaches member drive goal through Day of GivingThanks to the support of listeners who made donations through Purdue's Day of Giving, WBAA has reached its spring member drive goal of welcoming 225 new individuals into the station's growing base of listeners who also contribute to the station financially. Career assessment services to be offered for high schoolersStudents in Purdue's counseling psychology doctoral program within the Department of Educational Studies will offer a career assessment service this summer to the high school children of Purdue faculty and staff and to local high schoolers. PeopleAppointments, honors and activitiesAppointments and promotions, faculty and staff honors, alumni honors, student honors, and rankings. Purdue sportsFor more information on Purdue sports, go to www.purduesports.com. |
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