In the spotlight

Krach, Brees team up
to rebuild houses
in New Orleans

When a Super Bowl champion and a business leader join forces on the playing field, the result is a sure touchdown. And so it was in May, when Team Purdue -- New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees and e-commerce entrepreneur Keith Krach -- partnered on a project to rebuild houses in New Orleans. Read more...

Featured News for Employees

Online health assessment available at myCIGNA.com

Human Resources WorkLife Programs encourages all employees participating in Purdue medical plans to spend 20 minutes completing an online assessment to learn valuable information about their health. A flier with more information is available here.

ITaP taking orders for new research supercomputing cluster

Orders for the new Rossmann community cluster are now being taken by ITaP. ITaP's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing plans to build the new cluster in July, containing three times more cores and memory per node than in the community clusters installed in 2008 and 2009. Read more...

Two staff development programs recognize new graduates

Accomplished Clerical Excellence and the Council for Manager Development graduated a combined 40 University staff members this spring. Read more...

SecurePurdue newsletter available online

The latest issue of the SecurePurdue newsletter is available here. The SecurePurdue newsletter is published monthly by ITaP Networks and Security and is part of the SecurePurdue initiative. For more information on how to help secure Purdue, visit the SecurePurdue webpage at www.purdue.edu/securepurdue.

Farmers market offering seasonal produce

Vendors at the farmers market on the corner of Sheetz and Wood streets, just west of the Dick and Sandy Dauch Alumni Center, will offer more seasonal items today than they were able to last month. Read more...

General News

Purdue to lead $2 million NASA study on cells in microgravity

NASA has awarded a $2 million project to Purdue for a microsatellite experiment to determine how plant cells react to different gravity situations. Read more...

Research News & Special Reports

New method manipulates particles for sensors, crime scene testing

Researchers at Purdue have developed a potential new tool for medical diagnostics, testing food and water for contamination, and crime-scene forensics. Read more...

New yeast can ferment more sugar, make more cellulosic ethanol

Purdue scientists have improved a strain of yeast that can produce more biofuel from cellulosic plant material by fermenting all five types of the plant's sugars. Read more...

Solution to beading-saliva mystery has practical purposes

Researchers have discovered precisely why strands of some fluids containing long molecules called polymers form beads when stretched, findings that could be used to improve industrial processes and for administering drugs in "personalized medicine." Read more...

Purdue Sports

Purdue Athletics releases academic progress report

In conjunction with the NCAA, Purdue Intercollegiate Athletics announced Wednesday that all but one of its 20 teams (indoor and outdoor track and field counted separately) is above the 925 Academic Progress Rate (APR) cutoff. Read more...

Research Studies

Researchers in various studies looking for participants

Here is a list of research studies that currently are looking for study participants. Read more...