Faculty and Staff News

What IF digital mapping could help save our forests?

What IF digital mapping could help save our forests? A presentation Thursday (Nov. 1) will address that question as a part of Purdue's Ideas Festival.

Other Stories

• Purdue employees invited to SuccessFactors Resource Fair on Thursday

• SAP Portal pause dates announced in preparation for SuccessFactors transformation

• 'Exploring Building Blocks of Successful Online Programs' set for National Distance Learning Week and PGVillage

• Benefits open enrollment for 2019 ends Monday

• Proposals sought for 2019 Women in Leadership Institute

In the Spotlight

Giant Leaps Research: Jennifer Freeman

When a chemical spill in Elk River contaminated the drinking water of nearly 300,000 West Virginians in 2014, little was known about the contaminant MCHM, a type of methanol used industrially for cleaning coal. But now that it was in a local water source … is it a safety issue? Would exposure harm brain development in children? Jennifer Freeman, associate professor of toxicology, wanted to answer those questions, and her group conducted a toxicological assessment on the MCHM mixture that escaped Tank 396 that day.

Additional News

Research

• Research on clots could make pancreatic cancer more treatable

General

• Harvard professor, author discusses ‘What IF the world’s actually getting better?' »

People

• Secretary of agriculture appoints Purdue professor to USDA advisory board

Sports

• Purdue football to take on Iowa on Saturday

Purdue in the News

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

• MSN: The real reason you can't help but love scary movies

• WLFI: New radar helping improve weather data for northwestern Indiana

Events

	Don't Miss It! Lectures and Guest Speakers This week's events Events for the next four weeks Ongoing series and opportunities Deadlines for faculty and staff

• Dawn or Doom: Preventing, or at least slowing, the spread of diseases like Zika from animals to humans

• Today: Discovery Park, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering to host Air Force official Tony Kim

• Teaching computers to interpret ideology: Purdue professor uses AI to deduce bias in social media and news

• Landscape Architecture lecture to explore animal-plant food webs

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