In the spotlight

Health and Human Sciences students expand their world through China internships

Every year since 2000, a small group of adventurers sets off from West Lafayette to learn what it's like to live, work and learn in China. Five to six months later, they return with a greatly expanded view of their world and a much stronger appreciation of their own unique places within it. Read more...

Featured News for Employees

'Foundations' program to help shape first-year approach; meeting Sept. 2 to describe initiative, welcome participants

If first-year college students have a first-rate experience, odds are they are more likely to succeed as better, more satisfied students and, ultimately, better world citizens. That is the wisdom behind a national higher education initiative that Purdue will follow this year in an ongoing effort to ensure student success. Read more...

Campus Technology highlights Purdue’s Signals and HUBzero as top innovations for 2011

Campus Technology Magazine's August edition highlights Purdue’s Signals and HUBzero as winners of two of its 10 international Campus Technology Innovators Awards for 2011. Signals is an early warning system that helps students succeed in their coursework. HUBzero is a Web-based platform allowing researchers to collaborate using computational models to study complex problems. Read more...

Inside Purdue being distributed in campus mail

Inside Purdue, the semiannual University print resource guide for faculty and staff, is being published today (Aug. 25). Produced by the Office of Marketing and Media, it features descriptive directories, Human Resources offerings, information on employee governance groups and introduction of new faculty members. It also contains a pullout section with a whole semester of facts and event listings from major providers of arts and entertainment on the West Lafayette campus.

* Inside Purdue (PDF)
* Arts at Purdue (PDF)
* New faculty quick profiles (PDF)

Research News & Special Reports

Researchers in various studies looking for participants

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

General News

Purdue Galleries to begin a new season of exhibitions

Purdue Galleries opens its 2011-12 schedule on Aug. 29 with exhibitions of contemporary drawing and "stickwork." Read more...

'Rolling Strong' tour to celebrate Big Bass Drum's 90th

A five-stop, "Rolling Strong: Big Bass Drum 90th Birthday Tour" will take a beloved Purdue icon on a tour of classic Indiana high school football rivalry games this fall. Read more...

Openings available at on-campus child lab school

The Miller Child Development Laboratory School, administered by the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, has openings in its full-day program for children ages 18-36 months. For more information, contact Cheryl Butz at cbutz@purdue.edu or 49-40240.

Purdue Sports

Meet the Team picnic set for Saturday

At the second annual football Meet the Team event at 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday (Aug. 27) on the north plaza area of Ross-Ade Stadium, fans can come free and enjoy free food, soft drinks, kids activities, band music and more. Read more...

For more information on Purdue sports, go to www.purduesports.com.

Events

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

• Purdue Cancer Culture & Community program to celebrate release of graphic novel 'Lafayette: Our Cancer Year'

• Purdue Convocations to present free outdoor event featuring 'Australia's Strange Fruit'