Faculty and Staff News

Purdue's Latino Cultural Center selects director

Carina Olaru, assistant professor at Monmouth College, has been selected as director of the Latino Cultural Center at Purdue. Olaru will succeed interim director Rosa Acevedo Villarreal at the LCC effective July 18.

Other Stories

• Deadline approaching to register for screening mammogram

• Purdue to host career fair for community

• Thousands enjoy Spring Fling; organizers thank volunteers

• Purdue obituaries

• This week's 'Thumbs Up' recipients

In the Spotlight

Drawn to learning: Whiteboard animation flips the classroom

Purdue professors Richard Makadok and Timothy Newby have received funding to develop 16 whiteboard-style animated mini-lectures. The nearly $55,700 grant will help expand the uses for courses in strategic management and to deliver new content and demonstrate how this approach can be effectively integrated in
the K-12 teaching environment.

Additional News

General

• Eight students selected for annual STEM fellowship program

• Purdue Mandela Fellows announced; entrepreneurs from 17 African countries at Purdue

• Purdue grad played crucial role for winning Indianapolis 500 team

People

• Purdue University Northwest staff members recognized for job excellence

• Appointments, honors and activities

Sports

• Men's track and field earns highest NCAA finish since 1972

• Women's track and field's Harter earns first-team All-America honors

• Women add second-team honors in NCAA meet's final day

Purdue in the News

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

• WIND radio - Chicago: Mitch Daniels on higher education affordability (early part is related, but interview intro starts at 1:59)

• Reuters, London Mail: China pork demand has investors high on U.S. lean hogs

• Popular Archaeology, Phys.org: Old World metals traded on Alaska coast hundreds of years before contact with Europeans

• Phys.org: Innovative process produces biodegradable cellulose-based films

• Lafayette Journal & Courier, WLFI, Inside INdiana Business: Indiana eager to join clean energy efforts

Events

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