Purdue Today

News for faculty and staff

August 22, 2007

NEWS FOR STAFF

OnePurdue offers many options for user support

Questions about passwords and general online navigation have been the most frequent to the OnePurdue Support Center since July's launch of the new human resources and payroll systems. Knowing how to use the new Employee Self-Service site is essential and OnePurdue offers many options for user support. More

United Way helps connect funds to needs

Connections keep us all going - our connections with family, friends, colleagues, and our community.

That's the message United Way volunteers will spread this year as Purdue kicks off its 2007 campaign with the theme "We Matter." More

Nominations sought for Special Boilermaker Award

Nominations are being accepted for the Special Boilermaker Award, given annually by the Purdue Alumni Association. More

RESEARCH NEWS, SPECIAL REPORTS

Scientists create their own Web 2.0 network with nanoHUB

**nanoHUB bookmark**

Teenagers may not have heard about it, but there's a Web 2.0 site that's a hit with scientists and engineers.

nanoHUB.org, a so-called science gateway for nano-science and nanotechnology housed at Purdue, is taking the tools of Web 2.0 and applying them, along with a few tricks of its own, to further nano-scholarly pursuits. More

Magazine names Purdue's Birck Nanotechnology Center its Experts' Choice 'Facility of the Year'

**Birck Nanotechnology Center cleanroom**

Birck Nanotechnology Center in Discovery Park has been named Facility of the Year by Controlled Environments, a monthly magazine that focuses on the cleanroom industry.

In the May issue of Controlled Environments, editors highlighted Birck's state-of-the-art laboratories, its partnership with facility designer, Omaha, Neb.-based HDR Architecture Inc., and the role the Purdue facility now plays in encouraging interdisciplinary research. Birck was one of five winners honored through the magazine's 2007 Experts' Choice Awards. More

GENERAL NEWS

Purdue, family agree to settlement in student's death

Purdue and the parents of Wade Steffey have reached a settlement that will provide a $500,000 payment to the family and create a $100,000 endowment for a scholarship in the deceased student's name. More

PEOPLE

Two students receive International Chorafas Foundation award; 9 other graduate students honored by College of Engineering

Two Purdue students won the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation doctoral dissertation award, which was established to encourage the development of promising graduate researchers in engineering. More

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