Faculty and Staff News

CSSAC elects vice chair, emeritus members

The Clerical and Service Staff Advisory Committee on May 10 elected R. Allen Bol vice chair for 2016-17. Bol, an assistant in Purdue Libraries, will take office in September. The current vice chair, Tiffany Eakin, will be chair in 2016-17.

Other Stories

• Not too late to volunteer for Spring Fling

• Deadline approaching for clerical, service staff to use personal holiday

• CSSAC seeking new members

• How to close finished IRB research studies

• ITaP offers workshops for WebEx, Qualtrics and Video Express

• Purdue Policy Research Institute accepting applications for faculty, student fellowships

In the Spotlight

Daniels visits evGrand Prix, M-STEM fair at Indianapolis Motor Speedway

President Mitch Daniels spoke with high school students from all over the state on Tuesday (May 17) at the M-STEM3 Student Fair and evGrandPrix. The fair and evGrandPrix are part of M-STEM3 (Motorsports STEM for Manufacturing and Medicine) at Purdue, an education initiative designed to spark students' interest in STEM fields by taking advantage of Purdue's location near the "Racing Capital of the World." A photo gallery is available here.

Additional News

Research

• High-efficiency power amplifier could bring 5G cell phones

• Burial sites show how Nubians, Egyptians integrated communities thousands of years ago in Nile River Valley area »

• Purdue survey finds 'agritourists' have environmental concerns

• Researchers in various studies looking for participants

General

• Multimillion-dollar gift endows directorship of Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience

• Elevate Purdue Foundry Fund provides $100,000 funding to five startups

• Eye to Eye mentorship program helps students with learning disabilities learn to self-advocate

• Tyner: Gasoline prices should stay low for summer despite supply disruptions

People

• Purdue Northwest appoints top academic official

Sports

• Men's golf team reaches second NCAA Championships in three years

• Enekwechi earns Big Ten Field Athlete of the Year, Field Athlete of the Championships

• Kim set for NCAA Championships in women's golf

Purdue in the News

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

• ABC News, Fox News, Houston Chronicle: Your stadium here: Public schools cash in with naming rights

• National Review: Mitch Daniels takes on 'callous, heartless and cruel' anti-GMO activists

• London Daily Mail: Are you being watched? Controversial system lets police access thousands of surveillance cameras in public places

• Phys.org: Research demonstrates a new phase transition from metal to ionic conductor

• WXIN, WTTV: Indy 500 rookie Rossi discusses technology of racing with local students

Events

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