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Purdue Writing Lab receives $1.5 million to create writing tool for high school students

Social media, videogaming and other online interactive activities could help to improve high school students' writing, so a Purdue professor is leading a team that will use these features to update a popular online writing lab resource. The two-year project, called H-OWL, is funded by a $1.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Read more...

Featured News for Employees

WorkLife Programs offerings have new focus in 2011

WorkLife Programs will offer many new courses in 2011. Offerings will center on prevention and chronic conditions, work-life balance, parent/family relationships, emotional health and well-being, the aging boomers and financial health. Read more...

This week's 'Thumbs Up' recipients

"Thumbs Up" gives faculty and staff the chance to recognize others on campus for a job well done. Read more...

General News

Agricultural economists: Farmland values soaring, for now

Much of the U.S. economy has been slow to recover from the recession. That hasn't been true of farmland markets, which have continued to climb, a group of Purdue agricultural economists says. Read more...

People

Appointments, honors and activities

Here is a list of recent appointments and honors for faculty, staff and students. Read more...

Purdue Sports

Purdue Pete to reveal makeover in April

Life's been a whirlwind for Purdue Pete since the 1940 advertising logo first took human form in 1956. This spring, he'll debut a new look, his first head-to-toe, one-piece outfit, with specifics under wraps until the April gold-and-black football scrimmage. More details are available in the January/February issue of Purdue Alumnus.

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