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September 28, 2022

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Faculty and Staff News

Framework and guide for teaching excellence launched

The Guide for Developing and Documenting Teaching Excellence has launched and is available for faculty and staff. The guide is the culmination of three years of work and is a foundational element of the Purdue Road Map for Transformative Undergraduate Education, a pillar of the Transformative Education 2.0 initiative.

Things to Know

Purdue ALERT test set for Thursday
10 ways to care for your physical and behavioral health

Things to Do

Office of Experiential Education to host Community of Practice events

In the Spotlight

Peter Bermel

Nearly $11M in additional DOD funds expands Purdue-led microelectronics workforce program

Purdue University announced Sept.16 that the SCALE (Scalable Asymmetric Lifecycle Engagement) microelectronics workforce development program will extend five years and expand with additional Department of Defense funding of $10.8 million, and a ceiling of $99 million. Led by Purdue, funded by the Department of Defense and managed by NSWC Crane, SCALE facilitates a different approach to training highly skilled U.S. microelectronics engineers, hardware designers and manufacturing experts. Share the news: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn

Additional News

George Wodicka

Student success, collaborations highlight Wodicka’s legacy

George Wodicka’s visionary leadership helped build Purdue's Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering into an innovation center that impacted more than 10 million patients over the last 25 years. Recently, the atrium in the Martin C. Jischke Hall of Biomedical Engineering was named in his honor. Share the news: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn

Daniel Pierce

'Purdue Pursuits': University Residences Faculty Fellows program

When Daniel Pierce moved into McCutcheon Hall as a freshman in the fall of 2000, he knew little to nothing about the University Residences Faculty Fellows program. He certainly didn’t envision he would be serving as the senior faculty fellow in the same residence hall 15 years later. Share the news: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn

Campus

Purdue renames Academic Success Center to honor founder, first African American professor
Grants available to students for community service projects

Teaching and Learning

Program to enhance health care diversity provides meaningful results for accelerated nursing students

Events

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Bringing Our Best

Meet the new directors in Student Success Programs

Purdue’s Student Success Programs department has welcomed three new directors to its leadership team. Overseeing Purdue’s Veterans Success Center, Horizons Student Support Services, and Span Plan Nontraditional Student Services, each of the new leaders has firsthand experiences that are similar to the students they now serve.

Morgan Torres, Keara Ludiker, Brittany Allensworth

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Purdue in the News

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

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Buffalo News, Columbus (Ga.) Telegram: Hurricane Ian is the latest big storm. Learn why the 2022 hurricane season has taken off
New York Times: How New Mexico's largest wildfire set off a drinking water crisis (subscription required)
CNN: Food prices are soaring, and that's changed how we eat
Inside INdiana Business, WXIN, Indianapolis Business Journal: Dean: Demand driving need for new School of Business at Purdue
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