Today's Top 5 From Purdue University

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Purdue lab creates free resources for providing telehealth services

A lab in Purdue’s College of Health and Human Sciences is trying to make it easier for patients with swallowing disorders to use telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Media Contact: Abbey Nickel, nickela@purdue.edu

Can video games save the honeybee?

Tim Gibb, a Purdue clinical professor of entomology, is using virtual learning modules, developed in collaboration with ITaP’s Envision Center, to educate high school students about the problems pollinators such as bees and butterflies face and what can be done to help them.

Media Contact: Adrienne Miller, mill2027@purdue.edu

After the pandemic: The future of music education and performances

Fall music classes and performances at K-12 schools and colleges will look much different if in-person instruction and traditional concerts are not allowed to resume.

Media Contact: Joseph Paul, paul102@purdue.edu

Archaeologist sinks teeth into understanding cultural identity, interactions in ancient Nile River Valley

Michele Buzon, professor of anthropology at Purdue, is a bioarchaeologist who has excavated in the Nubian region of modern-day Sudan, to better understand interactions between Egyptians and Nubians.

Media Contact: Amy Patterson Neubert, apatterson@purdue.edu

Purdue startup creates bedside hand-washing technology

A Purdue-affiliated startup has created a way for patients to wash their hands using soap and water without leaving their hospital or medical beds.

Media Contact: Chris Adam, cladam@prf.org

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