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Purdue community invited to Council for Manager Development presentations

Council for Manager Development to present to Purdue commmunity

The 2012 graduating class of Purdue's Council for Manager Development Program (CMD) -- a program that sees staff work in groups to improve campus and their careers -- will present project results April 24. Project topics are the successful transition of beginning undergraduate international students, enhancing the sophomore experience and improving students' experiences at home football games. Read more...

Featured News for Employees

Events to celebrate faculty, teaching excellence by grad students

Faculty and graduate teaching assistants will be recognized at two celebratory events next week: the Celebration of Graduate Student Teaching Excellence and the Faculty Awards Convocation. Read more...

Medco and Express Scripts merge; no action required by employees

Medco, the company that manages the pharmacy benefit for Purdue's medical plans, has merged with Express Scripts. Although the combined company will call itself Express Scripts, plan participants will continue to see the Medco name for now. Read more...

Community clusters, storage to be offline for upgrades and maintenance

Purdue's Community Cluster Program supercomputers, related high-performance data storage and Fortress archival data storage system will be down for scheduled maintenance for up to three days May 15-17 to allow for upgrades and maintenance on the computing systems and on some of the power and cooling systems serving them. Read more...

Spring bike count being taken this week

This week the Physical and Capital Planning organization will be conducting the spring bike count. This activity is part of a semiannual process utilized to ensure that sufficient bicycle parking is available throughout campus. Read more...

Research News & Special Reports

Nanocrystal-coated fibers might reduce wasted energy

Researchers are developing a technique that uses nanotechnology to harvest energy from hot pipes or engine components to potentially recover energy wasted in factories, power plants and cars. Read more...

General News

Purdue dedicates Hospitality and Tourism Management's Marriott Hall

Purdue on Tuesday (April 17) dedicated Marriott Hall, the new home of the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management. Read more...

Purdue student gains international experience through Hospitality and Tourism Management opportunity

When Purdue senior Katey Wheeler applied for an internship to work for six months in Qingdao, China, she had not expected the experience half a world away would make her feel so close to home. Read more...

Purdue receives 150 new recycling bins

Purdue has received 150 recycling bins as part of a bin grant program sponsored by the Alcoa Foundation in partnership with national nonprofit Keep America Beautiful (KAB) and the College & University Recycling Coalition (CURC). Read more...

MFRI director to speak on Sesame Street panel

Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, director of Purdue's Military Family Research Institute, will be part of a panel discussing the impact of Sesame Street's Military Families Initiative at 9 a.m. today (April 18) at the National Press Club. The initiative provides resources to help preschool children cope with deployments, the return of a parent with a combat-related injury and the death of a loved one. The event will be streamed at www.visualwebcaster.com/militaryfamilies.

Purdue Sports

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Events

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

• Birck Nanotechnology Center to host hands-on NanoDays for K-12 students, teachers, general public

• Public policy expert to speak on agriculture 'culture war'

Sites of interest

• Momentum Makers
• Difference Makers
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