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Did You Know?:
Purdue zipTrips

On a colorful set in the basement of Stewart Center, Purdue staff, researchers and faculty members combine science with production, education with electronics and teaching with technology to create zipTrips -- live electronic field trips for sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders across the world. Read more...

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Featured News for Employees

Today's benefit enrollment events

Enrollment overview presentations will be at 8:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. today (Nov. 4) in Stewart Center, Room 322, and Choice Fund with HSA presentations will be at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. today in Stewart Center, Room 322. For a schedule of remaining live sessions and additional help during benefits open enrollment, visit the open enrollment home page at www.purdue.edu/hr/Benefits/enroll.html. Open enrollment ends at midnight on Nov. 24.

Campus sirens to be tested today

Purdue has replaced all of its all-hazards outdoor warning sirens and added two new ones on campus. A test of the system will be conducted between 1 and 4 p.m. today (Nov. 4). Read more...

Blackboard users group to meet Tuesday

ITaP educational technologists will offer help submitting fall semester grades in Blackboard Vista at the next cross-campus Blackboard Users Group meeting, set for 1:30-2:30 p.m. Tuesday (Nov. 8) in Stewart Center, Room 313. The meeting also will include a demonstration of Mixable, an application that allows users to form online study groups within Facebook and share documents through Dropbox. Read more...

Great Reads in Leadership Book Club has space available for 'Our Iceberg Is Melting'

The November meetings of the Great Reads in Leadership Book Club discussion group have space available. Read more...

Discounts at area businesses offered through CSSAC

Blue wallet cards summarizing offers through the CSSAC Discount Program for 2011-12 were distributed recently through campus mailboxes, and now the discounts are online also. Read more...

Span Plan offering need-based grants for adult nontraditional students and staff

Span Plan Adult Student Services is offering educational grants for part-time (three to seven credits in the spring) adult nontraditional students and staff taking classes at Purdue West Lafayette or Purdue's College of Technology Lafayette campus. The application deadline is Dec. 1. Read more...

Research News & Special Reports

New Web resource to facilitate study of bond between humans and animals

Purdue University Press and the School of Veterinary Medicine will develop a new online resource to further the study of the human-animal bond. Read more...

Purdue researcher leads effort to capture natural sounds, coordinate global network

A Purdue researcher will lead a global natural soundscape network to coordinate research that could help detect early changes in climate and weather patterns, the presence of pollution and other environmental impacts. Read more...

General News

Conference to showcase Purdue student supercomputing team, technologies for building research communities

For Tyler Reid, being a member of Purdue's supercomputing team means getting his hands on the latest hardware -- really on it -- an opportunity too good to pass up. The six-member team of Purdue students built its own supercomputer this semester in preparation for competing Nov. 14-16 in the 2011 Cluster Challenge in Seattle. Read more...

Website developed as resource for info on deadly tree disease

Purdue researchers have helped develop a website aimed at educating landowners and foresters about a fatal fungal disease that is threatening valuable black walnut trees in Eastern states. Read more...

Purdue Sports

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

Events

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

• Purdue to host screening of documentary on ecologist Aldo Leopold

• Purdue conference to help minority business owners network

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