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Purdue employee being treated for meningococcal disease

Tippecanoe County health officials are contacting anyone who may have had close contact with a Purdue employee who has been diagnosed with a meningococcal infection. More

Panel discussion to focus on applications of common reading selection

As Purdue prepares to initiate its first common reading effort, a panel discussion will be held today (May 14) to focus on how the selected book can be incorporated into courses and other activities. More

Building Services summer memo about trash, windows

Summer office cleaning procedures and frequency, as well as exterior window cleaning plans, are explained in a memo to building deputies from Terry Ashlock, Building Services director. The memo includes guidelines regarding trash and recycling for anyone planning a major office cleaning out or moving out, plus a request to inform the custodian if a space will be unused for an extended time and trash pickup is not needed. The memo is in pdf.

Spring Fling approaches; deadline for carryout lunches is Friday

Spring Fling, the annual appreciation event for faculty, staff, graduate student staff, and retirees, is set for 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 21. More

Northwestern Avenue garage: Partial closure, traffic changes

The south half of the Northwestern Avenue Parking Garage will close Monday (May 18) for repair, affecting entrances, exits and traffic in the garage. More

Space remaining in Financial Focus Series workshop

"Mortgage Foreclosures: What You Need to Know" will be offered on May 20 as part of the Financial Focus Series created by HRS Staff Benefits and WorkLife Programs. More

Purdue joins office supply vendor in new green initiative

The University will partner with vendor Guy Brown Office Products in a new green effort intended to decrease the carbon footprint on the Purdue campuses. More

Travel notice: India adopts health screenings in response to H1N1 flu outbreak

The University Travel Office is advising Purdue employees who plan to visit India that the Indian government recently adopted new airport screening measures at its international terminals in response to the H1N1 flu outbreak. More

ITaP NEWS

Purdue e-mail storage limit increases with upgrades coming this summer

Users of ITaP's Exchange and Mailhub services can expect to see some changes when it comes to e-mail this summer. Both services are being upgraded, and the mailbox storage limit will increase from 500 MB to 1 GB. More

ITaP taking orders for new research supercomputing cluster and individual systems

Orders for nodes in the new Coates community cluster are now being taken by Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP). This also is an opportunity for departments or individuals purchasing computing equipment for use outside the cluster to take advantage of big price breaks available in a group purchase, said John Campbell, associate vice president for information technology. More

TLT to provide Web-based classes on Blackboard

Teaching & Learning Technologies (TLT), a unit of ITaP, is offering two Web-based, self-paced classes for faculty, staff and graduate students. Blackboard Online: Getting Started and Blackboard Online: Mastering the Grade Book will be available May 18 through June 26. Participants can begin either class any time during the open time period and work through the classes at their own pace. To see a description and register for either class, click the linked name of the class above.

Training on Adobe Creative Suite 4 offered to employees in May

Adobe is hosting a series of free Creative Suite eSeminars in May, and all Purdue faculty and staff are invited to register. More

CAMPUS NEWS

Students help local families through Project Move Out

University Residences student workers from Hilltop Apartments load trucks with items donated to Project Move Out for local families in need. Students moving out of residence halls donated items that otherwise might have gone to landfills. Resident assistants helped collect and deliver the items to the Purdue Armory, where they were sorted for distribution through the Boiler Volunteer Network's project. Project Move Out ran May 8-10.

RESEARCH NEWS, SPECIAL REPORTS

Pandemic warning system keys on 'human factors'

GENERAL NEWS

Top male graduate to help entrepreneurial firm

Eric Barnard, an agricultural economics major from Flora, Ind., received the G.A. Ross Award as the outstanding graduating man at Purdue. Barnard also received a Governor Bob Orr Entrepreneurial Fellowship, which allows recent graduates to work for two years with some of Indiana’s fastest-growing entrepreneurial companies. More

Purdue students head to China for global business-plan competition

Purdue honors language professor with book distribution

Faculty and staff from Purdue's College of Education will distribute books to first-graders in an effort to honor the memory of a literacy and language professor. More

PURDUE SPORTS

Painter named to USA Basketball coaching staff

Purdue men's basketball coach Matt Painter has been selected as one of two assistant coaches of the 2009 USA Basketball U19 World Championships Team. More

Purdue football group tickets go on sale Monday

PEOPLE

Purdue researcher keeps pushing for deeper knowledge

Dan Szymanski

CALENDAR AND EVENTS

Events this week

Here is a list of events happening May 11-17 at the West Lafayette campus. More

WorkLife to hold Family Caregiver Resource Fair

HRS WorkLife Programs is sponsoring the fifth annual Family Caregiver Resource Fair on May 19. More

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