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News for faculty and staff

December 12, 2008

GENERAL NEWS

SmartMoney ranks a Purdue degree among nation's best buys

Purdue ranks ninth nationally in SmartMoney magazine's college "payback" survey, which quantifies the long-term value of a college education. "Public universities turn out to be a far better deal than virtually all the privates we surveyed," according to the magazine. More

Krannert's executive MBA ranks 14th in WSJ value poll

The executive MBA at Purdue's Krannert School of Management offers one of the highest returns on investment, according to a new ranking by the Wall Street Journal. More

Women in Engineering to offer Innovation to Reality program

Purdue's Women in Engineering Program is offering sixth through eighth-grade students the chance to participate in a free after-school program called Innovation to Reality. I2R will explore two themed areas of engineering — biosensors and alternative energy — through a combination of faculty guest speakers, lab tours and hands-on engineering activities. The biosensors session will be Jan. 14-Feb. 11, and the alternative energy session will be Feb. 12-March 12. More details on the program can found in a pdf available here or at the Women in Engineering Program Web site.

Program that teaches students about wine service named after Kavanaugh

A program that teaches university students the finer points of wine knowledge and service has been named in honor of the recently deceased director of the Purdue Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management. The Dr. Raphael Kavanaugh Sommelier University Program, extended to senior students at hospitality and tourism schools across the country, is supported by the Guild of Sommeliers Education Foundation and taught by Master Sommeliers, the country's foremost wine experts. More

Parkinson's speech treatment study looking for subjects

A Purdue researcher is seeking Parkinson's disease patients to participate in a speech treatment study at the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences. More

RESEARCH NEWS AND SPECIAL REPORTS

Archaeologists, like Sherlock Holmes, depend on tiniest of clues

**Michele Buzon**

Where a person is from says a lot about them. It influences their personality, behavior, and even how they speak. For scientists, knowing where a person called home is a critical piece of information. So, how then, can that answer be uncovered when that person died thousands of years ago and left no record? More

PURDUE SPORTS

Purdue volleyball team takes aim at Hawaii

The 10th-seeded Boilermaker volleyball team will face off with No. 6 Hawai'i in Fort Collins, Colo., today with a spot in the Elite Eight on the line. The match, which is a rematch of the teams' 2004 second round contest in Fort Collins, is slated for a 7 p.m. ET start and will air live on WSHY 1410 AM in Lafayette and on yahoosports.com. More

CALENDAR AND EVENTS

Events today, this weekend

Here is a list of events happening Dec. 12-14 at the West Lafayette campus. More

Purdue orchestras to perform Dvorák, Beethoven symphonies

The Purdue Symphony Orchestra and the newly formed Purdue Philharmonic Orchestra will perform symphonies by Ludwig van Beethoven and Antonín Dvorák during a concert at 8 p.m. Saturday (Dec. 13). More

Women in Ag Conference covers it all, from energy to wine

It's time for Hoosier women to mark their calendars for the eighth annual Midwest Women in Agriculture Conference, as it returns to Plymouth Feb. 4-5. More

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