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Purdue Profiles:
Michael Witt

"As-Salamu Alaykum," a common Middle Eastern greeting, can be heard every day in Michael Witt’s West Lafayette home. Witt, assistant professor of library science and interdisciplinary research librarian, was recently named a Fulbright Scholar, and his family is learning Arabic in preparation for their January departure to Alexandria, Egypt. Read more...

Featured News for Employees

Faculty, staff, students invited to nominate awardees for One Brick Higher

An award steeped in Purdue history and recognizing exceptional work by Purdue faculty, staff and students is being reinstated by President France A. Córdova. Read more...

Reporting campus safety concerns made easier

Environmental Health and Public Safety at Purdue's West Lafayette campus has incorporated a new layer of communication to make reporting safety concerns simpler for all four campus locations. Read more...

Research and education technologies conference aims to expand, diversify technology use

An Oscar-nominated visualization expert who helped animate a virtual tour of the universe and the former head of the nation's chief science agency will headline Purdue CI Days 2010, a two-day event focused on technology to enhance research, teaching and program funding. Purdue CI Days 2010 will focus on how just about any faculty member, research staffer, or graduate student can benefit from cyberinfrastructure, or CI. Visit www.itap.purdue.edu/cidays or e-mail cidays@purdue.edu to register by Nov. 29. Read more...

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General News

Veteran and ROTC students to run Old Oaken Bucket game ball for troops

Veterans and ROTC students will run with the game ball 110 miles from Indiana University to Purdue for the Nov. 27 Old Oaken Bucket football game to raise money to send supplies to troops overseas. Read more...

After-school engineering program to be offered for 6th-8th graders

Purdue will offer students in sixth through eighth grades two after-school engineering sessions during the spring semester. Read more...

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Events

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• Events for the next four weeks

• Online ratings to be examined Friday in Cyber Center talk

• Union to honor veterans with Purdue ties

• 60 schools to compete in Spell Bowl state finals