March 11, 2016

Faculty and Staff News

Human Resources introduces benefits ambassadors program, encourages applicants

Human Resources is announcing the implementation of a Benefits Ambassador Program on the West Lafayette campus. In an effort to promote overall health campus-wide, the goal of the program is to recruit interested and able faculty and staff to act as liaisons to Purdue's benefits team.

In the Spotlight

Did You Know?: Purdue
and Indiana's Pi Bill

National Pi Day is celebrated each year on March 14, or 3-14, in honor of the mathematical constant's common representation of 3.14. But if a little-remembered bill introduced to the Indiana General Assembly in the late 1800s had passed, it would have soured pi for Hoosier history.

Additional News

General

• Professor uses Blackboard to design his digital imaging course

• Lil BUB fundraising effort to expand Purdue's VTH services

Sports

• Men's basketball to begin Big Ten Tournament play today

Purdue in the News

Here is a sampling of recent news reports about Purdue from media across the nation and the world.

• Sojourners, Colorado Springs Gazette, Catholic Register: China's efforts to mold Christianity in its own image draw resistance

• MedicalXpress, HealthCanal: Novel drug repurposing method reveals two drugs effective for bacterial, fungal infections

• WLFI: Purdue shows progress on 3-year degree program

Events


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