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Purdue Global launches course in COVID-19 contact tracing

Recognizing the extraordinary need for contact tracers to slow the spread of COVID-19, Purdue University Global has launched a free contact tracing course to train individuals in this important public health enterprise.

Media Contact: Tom Schott, tschott@purdue.edu

COVID-19 experts for summer vacations and staycations

This is a collection of news releases covering topics ranging from safe and sustainable tourism to ventilation on airplanes to how the coronavirus could affect swimming pools.

Smartphone app to help assess anemia by taking a picture of a person’s eyelid

Purdue engineers have developed software that would enable medical staff to take a picture of a patient’s inner eyelid with a smartphone and instantly receive a near-accurate count of hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells.

Media Contact: Kayla Wiles, wiles5@purdue.edu

New Purdue/Microsoft collaboration calculates agricultural product supply risk due to COVID-19 worker illnesses

The Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue, in collaboration with Microsoft, has created the Purdue Food and Agricultural Vulnerability Index online dashboard to quantify the potential risk to the supply of agricultural products as a result of COVID-19 farm and agricultural worker illnesses.

Media Contact: Maureen Manier, mmanier@purdue.edu

Pearl Harbor and Purdue University: The parallels of two pioneer aviators

A Purdue doctoral history student, who is an active U.S. Air Force officer, has uncovered the multiple connections of two alums who earned the Distinguished Service Cross, the United States’ second-highest military decoration.

Media Contact: Joseph Paul, paul102@purdue.edu

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