May 6, 2015

Faculty and Staff News

2015 Morrill Award winners announced

Purdue's Morrill Awards were given Tuesday (May 5) at the Faculty Awards Convocation to three professors whose careers have demonstrated excellence in teaching, research and engagement, as well as in demonstrating synergies among those missions -- Gebisa Ejeta, Michael R. Ladisch and Wallace Tyner.

In the Spotlight

Purdue’s eighth supercomputing cluster in eight years not quite ‘minute' Rice, but will be built in a day

More than 100 staff members and volunteers will build Purdue's latest research supercomputer — expected to be one of the world's most powerful supercomputers — in a fast and furious race with the clock Friday (May 8) that should have the machine running science computations by afternoon. The new supercomputer, named Rice, will have roughly 7,000 times the processing power of an average laptop.

Additional News

General

Multi-state TECHFIT program seeking teachers to participate

Stacked Pickle restaurant to open near Purdue campus

Life sciences startup based on Purdue intellectual property changes name to Jewell Laboratories

Purdue in the News

Here is a sampling of recent news reports about Purdue from media across the nation and the world.

Washington Times, WXIX-TV (Cincinnati), WISH-TV (Indianapolis): Man who left high school for WWII to graduate from Purdue

Fox Business: Purdue University president on student debt

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