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November 8, 2013 In the Spotlight
Forum highlights engineering, computer science initiativesThursday's President's Forum focused on two of the new Purdue Moves initiatives -- expanding the College of Engineering and strengthening computer science. The forum featured opening remarks by President Mitch Daniels and presentations by Leah Jamieson, the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering; Pedro Irazoqui, director of the Center for Implantable Devices and associate professor of biomedical engineering and electrical and computer engineering; Sunil Prabhakar, professor and head of the Department of Computer Science; and Jennifer Neville, associate professor of computer science and statistics. A streaming archive of the President's Forum is available here, and additional information is available at the Purdue Moves website. Engineering pre-eminent teams get priority in hiringPurdue's College of Engineering has named four research teams that will be a priority for faculty hiring during the coming year. The teams were chosen because the work they do has the potential for dramatic impact and international pre-eminence. Purdue plans to strengthen computer science program, educate more studentsStrengthening computer science through a 27 percent increase in undergraduate and graduate student enrollment capacity and additional support for strategic research programs is part of a series of initiatives at Purdue. Faculty and staff newsDeductible will be waived on all preventive prescription drugs for 2014Human Resources has announced that all three 2014 Purdue medical plans will waive the deductible on brand-name preventive prescription drugs. Originally, the deductible for these drugs was going to be waived only on the Purdue Health Plan. Human Resources making courtesy phone calls to faculty, staff who have not enrolled for 2014Human Resources is making courtesy phone calls to employees who have not yet enrolled for their 2014 benefits. The calls began this week, and a big effort is planned for this Saturday (Nov. 9). Today's benefit enrollment eventsThe following events are scheduled for today (Nov. 8):
Faculty volunteers needed for CourseNetworking, eText pilotsITaP is looking for faculty volunteers to participate in two pilot programs, one testing a next-generation learning management system called CourseNetworking, and the other a Purdue digital textbook development initiative. Early users praise Purdue's new Conte supercomputer, now open to campus researchersPurdue's new Conte community cluster, now in full production and ready for use by campus researchers, is earning praise from early faculty users for speeding and enhancing research computation, modeling and simulation. With 77,520 processing cores, including Intel's Xeon Phi accelerator technology, Conte is by far the most powerful Purdue research supercomputer yet. Sandia Labs director to give tech view of national securityPaul Hommert, director of Sandia National Laboratories and president of Sandia Corp., will speak about national security Tuesday (Nov. 12) at Purdue's Discovery Park. CSSAC offering discounts at businesses for 2013-14Blue, wallet-size cards summarizing business discounts will be distributed next week through campus mailboxes, and the discount listings will be available on the Clerical and Service Staff Advisory Committee's website at www.purdue.edu/cssac/Employee_Discounts/index.html. General newsDaniels to discuss future of higher education at APLUPresident Mitch Daniels will join more than 1,250 leaders from public higher education for the 126th Annual Meeting of the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities (APLU) next week in Washington, D.C. PeopleOutstanding service recognized by Purdue ExtensionPurdue Extension honored an educator, specialist and others Thursday (Nov. 7) for the exceptional service they have provided to their profession, the University and the people of Indiana. Purdue Extension educators honored with annual awardsThe Indiana Extension Educators Association presented annual awards Thursday (Nov. 7) to county educators during a luncheon at Purdue Extension's Professional Development Conference. Nutrition program earns Purdue Extension Hancook AwardA program that inspires child care providers to promote healthy meals and snacks, nutrition education and role modeling for children throughout Indiana has received the Purdue Cooperative Extension Specialists Association's top award. Purdue sportsFor more information on Purdue sports, go to www.purduesports.com. |
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