News for faculty and staff
November 30, 2009
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Purdue Contemporary Dance Company to perform Winter Works
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FEATURED NEWS FOR EMPLOYEES
Purdue's first-year programs take retention rates to all-time high
When 18-year-old Naina Singh first arrived at Purdue, she was homesick like most freshmen and making the tough transition to college. But thanks to the University's Boiler Gold Rush orientation program, she not only hung on, but two years later went on to chair the very same event. Singh is one of the thousands of Purdue students who benefit each year from numerous first-year programs, which have been designed and implemented to provide academic, financial and social support to freshman students. MoreThis week's 'Thumbs Up' recipients
"Thumbs Up" gives faculty and staff the chance to recognize others on campus for a job well done. More
RESEARCH NEWS, SPECIAL REPORTS
Nanowires key to future transistors, electronics
A new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips using tiny structures called semiconducting nanowires are closer to reality after a key discovery by researchers at IBM, Purdue and the University of California at Los Angeles. MoreGENERAL NEWS
Purdue FOP, student sorority help children, make couple's dream come true
The Purdue University Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 136 and a campus sorority are helping give back to the community in a Christmas project spurred by a tragedy. MoreSC09 Cluster Challenge: Purdue, ITaP student supercomputing team wins 'green' computing award
Purdue's student Cluster Challenge team at the SC09 supercomputing conference in Portland, Ore., was fast and green. MorePurdue Ag partners with Sen. Lugar to create forestry program
Purdue and U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar have teamed to create a program intended to promote the science of forestry and to offer college scholarships to qualified students attending the University to study certain forestry disciplines. MoreProf: Patients' behaviors key consideration in mammography, screening guidelines
Policy-makers who establish health screening guidelines, such as mammograms for breast cancer, need to consider that it takes time for people to change their health behaviors, says a Purdue health communication expert. MorePEOPLE
Ag economist presented Hovde Award for rural service
A Purdue agricultural economist who has helped countless Hoosiers better understand tax and government budgeting issues is the 2009 recipient of the Frederick L. Hovde Award of Excellence in Educational Service to Rural People of Indiana. MorePurdue Extension specialists recognized by PUCESA
Five Purdue University Cooperative Extension Specialist Association (PUCESA) awards were presented at the annual Purdue Extension banquet on Wednesday (Nov. 18). MoreCALENDAR AND EVENTS
Events this week
Here is a list of events happening Nov. 30-Dec. 6 at the West Lafayette campus. More
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