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April 23, 2014 In the Spotlight
Nursing faculty and students implement Passport badges to measure learning, achievementTo help students connect what they learn clinically and what's happening in the health care industry, as well as illustrate the students' achievements for potential employers, two professors and three students from Purdue's School of Nursing partnered with ITaP to create and implement a set of badges in ITaP's Passport app. The badges represent skills related to safety, quality and other attributes acquired apart from a grade, and the app records them in a portfolio. Faculty and staff newsFaculty invited to participate in brief survey on social media practicesInstructors on Purdue's West Lafayette campus are invited to participate in a short survey on social media use in support of teaching and learning. Among other things, the survey will be used to identify exemplary uses of social media tools and to develop ways to better support use of those tools. DNR to use aerial assault to rid campus of gypsy mothsIndiana's Department of Natural Resources will use low-flying planes to spray parts of Purdue's West Lafayette campus during May and June to eradicate an invasive insect that threatens tree populations. Research newsStudy identifies enzymes that help fix cancer-causing DNA defectsPurdue researchers have identified an important enzyme pathway that helps prevent new cells from receiving too many or too few chromosomes, a condition that has been directly linked to cancer and other diseases. Gold nanoparticles help target, quantify breast cancer gene segments in a living cellPurdue researchers have developed a way to detect and measure cancer levels in a living cell by using tiny gold particles with tails of synthetic DNA. 
Study: Touch influences how infants learn languageTickling a baby's toes may be cute but it's also possible that those touches could help babies learn the words in their language. Research from Purdue shows that a caregiver's touch could help babies to find words in the continuous stream of speech. General newsPurdue hosts U.S. Agency for International Development officialPurdue's Global Policy Research Institute and the College of Education hosted Christie Vilsack, senior advisor on international education for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), when she visited Purdue on Thursday (April 17) as part of her "Main Street Tour." Course to prep for project management exams being offeredA four-day course that prepares its participants for project management certificate exams is coming May 12-15 to the West Lafayette campus, offered by Becker Professional Education by arrangement with the Krannert School of Management. Capacity crowd to see finals of 'Boiler' student startup competitionA capacity crowd of more than 50 people is expected to attend Demo Day, the conclusion of the Purdue student entrepreneurial competition Boiler Mini-Accelerator, or "Boiler," at 4 p.m. Friday (April 25) in Room 129 of the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship. Purdue sportsAwards banquet for men's tennis set for May 3The Purdue men's tennis team will hold its awards banquet at 6 p.m. May 3 at the Buchanan Club in Ross-Ade Pavilion. Reservations and payment are due Friday (April 25). For more information on Purdue sports, go to www.purduesports.com. |
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