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Presidential Lecture Series to feature conversation on climate and energy

Climate scientist Steven E. Koonin will join Purdue President Mitch Daniels at 6:30 p.m. ET Tuesday (Oct. 19) in Fowler Hall for an hourlong conversation, as part of the Presidential Lecture Series, on the current state of climate science.

Media Contact: Tim Doty, doty2@purdue.edu

White Lodging and Purdue University enhance relationship, honor J.W. ‘Bill’ Marriott, Jr.

White Lodging, one of the leading hospitality development and management companies in the United States, is enhancing the development of the next generation of hospitalitarians as part of the White family’s significant continued support of Purdue.

Media Contact: Tim Doty, doty2@purdue.edu

Therapeutic malaria treatment shown to be 100% effective in Phase 2 trial

Purdue professor Phillip Low co-directed an international research team that has discovered a repurposed cancer drug shown to be 100% effective in treating malaria in a Phase 2 clinical trial.

Media Contact: Steve Tally, steve@purdue.edu

Cracking the code of cellular defense

Purdue will serve as the main site of the Emergent Mechanisms in Biology of Robustness, Integration and Organization Institute, which will use AI to expand biology and engineering.

Media Contact: Matthew Oates, oatesw@purdue.edu

Purdue Global partners with American Red Cross to launch first-of-its-kind virtual Red Cross Club

As members of a first-of-its-kind virtual Red Cross Club, Purdue Global students from across the country will collaborate on service projects to ensure that the Red Cross has the resources it needs to deliver its mission each day.

Media Contact: Tom Schott, tschott@purdue.edu

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