In the spotlight

Did You Know?:
Tim McCall

When Tim McCall of Indianapolis began researching the Edmund Fitzgerald for his "What a Disaster" history project in the eighth grade, all he hoped for was an A. McCall, a Purdue Ph.D. student studying social psychology, not only received an A on the website he created for the project but also became known as an expert on the subject. Read more...

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Featured News for Employees

President's Forum set for Tuesday

The President's Forum will be held at 9 a.m. Tuesday (Jan. 25) in the South Ballroom, Purdue Memorial Union. President France A. Córdova will present the annual State of the University address. A live webcast of the forum will be available at mms://video.dis.purdue.edu/PresidentsForum.

Nominations sought for Violet Haas Award

The Council on the Status of Women at Purdue is seeking nominees for the 2011 Violet Haas Award. Read more...

New WorkLife Programs classes to offer families education on mental illness

WorkLife Programs is partnering with the National Alliance on Mental Illness to bring the NAMI Family to Family Education Program to Purdue. Read more...

Training available in most-valued collaborative technologies

With the start of spring semester 2011, ITaP is offering training for faculty and staff in key technologies for collaborative activities -- SharePoint and Adobe Connect. ITaP also is registering campus Web designers for training in making websites more accessible for people with disabilities, a University mandate. Class sizes for each session are limited, so registration is required. Read more...

Local phone books to be distributed on campus

Plans were set to deliver local phone directories to campus locations today (Jan. 21) if possible, or within days. Information on collection of old directories for recycling will be forthcoming.

People

8 Purdue professors elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Eight Purdue professors have been awarded the distinction of fellow from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society. Read more...

Research News & Special Reports

Research finds practicing retrieval is best tool for learning

The time students invest in rereading or reviewing their notes would be better spent practicing retrieval to ensure better learning, according to new research from Purdue. Read more...

Purdue team creates 'engineered organ' model for breast cancer research

Purdue researchers have reproduced portions of the female breast in a tiny slide-sized model dubbed "breast-on-a-chip" that will be used to test nanomedical approaches for the detection and treatment of breast cancer. Read more...

Purdue Sports

Time lapse video captures Purdue win over Penn State

A time lapse video of the Purdue men's basketball team's thrilling 63-62 victory over Penn State on Wednesday night is available here. More than 10,000 photographs were taken with six different cameras throughout the course of the evening, and around 5,000 of those images were used to create the video. Read more...

Painter to head 2011 USA World University Games team

Purdue men's basketball head coach Matt Painter, who previously assisted the 2009 USA U19 World Championship team, has been selected as the head coach for the 2011 USA Men's World University Games team, USA Basketball announced on Thursday. Read more...

General News

Contest for projects aiding disabled open to all service groups

Any youth or adult service organization in Indiana now can enter an annual statewide Purdue competition that helps people with disabilities overcome physical barriers in their lives and communities. Read more...

Events

• This week's events
• Events for the next four weeks

• Black Cultural Center announces spring Cultural Arts Series

• Purdue Jazz Festival this weekend