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November 11, 2015 |
Faculty and Staff News
Open enrollment's Friday deadline approaching
Faculty and staff who have not yet enrolled for their 2016 benefits have only three days left to do so. Enrollment ends at 6 p.m. ET Friday (Nov. 13).
Today's enrollment sessions
Walk-in labs will be held 8 a.m.-5 p.m. in Freehafer Hall, Room 1-5, and 7 a.m.-1 p.m. in Stanley Coulter Hall, Room 179.
Other Stories
• Free flu shots still available at Center for Healthy Living; no appointment needed
• Turn in United Way pledge cards this week to get a photo with Purdue Pete
In the Spotlight
Purdue helps military veterans become farmers
Soon after Sara Creech bought a farm she had never seen in a place she had never been, she drove to her local feed store to pick up her first livestock. The five hatchlings she took home that day represented the start of a new life for Creech, a former Air Force nurse who had suffered a string of personal setbacks. Like many veterans, she had a hard time readjusting to civilian life after witnessing the horrors of war. Starting a farm was her redemption, she says, and she is working with Purdue's Beginning Farmer and Rancher Program to help other veterans rebuild their own lives, as she did, through agriculture.
Purdue Student Union Board to salute veterans
Purdue will honor veterans at a Veterans Day celebration at 11 a.m. today (Nov. 11) in the Purdue Memorial Union Great Hall.
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Additional News
General
• Gallup-Purdue Index: Returning vets don't feel their college understood their needs
• Deputy director of Johnson Space Center speaks at Purdue »
• Veterinary dean: Task force wants antibiotic resistance solutions at top of public health agenda
• Purdue-related startup guarantees to improve battery performance for Android apps
• CCO Career Closet seeking donations
• Purdue economist: Turkey prices up but rest of menu stable
Research
• Innovative energy-absorbing materials have potential uses in buildings, helmets
• 2 Purdue faculty members win NIH grants for brain research
People
• Purdue professor involved in national STEM education events
Purdue in the News
Here is a sampling of recent news reports about Purdue from media across the nation and the world.
• Fox Business: The burden of student debt (video with President Mitch Daniels; segment begins at 0:42)
• London Daily Mail, Medical News Today, Parent Herald: Why being mother's favorite child makes you more likely to be depressed: Sibling rivalry and feelings of responsibility take their emotional toll
• WLFI: Race car on Purdue campus catches attention
• New Albany News and Tribune: New Albany's Purdue campus gets renovations
Events
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Navy official to speak at kickoff for alternative energy initiative
The top administrator for the U.S. Navy's energy efforts will speak at Purdue on Thursday (Nov. 12) as part of a kickoff workshop for a Purdue-Navy research effort to address alternative energy and power issues. Joseph M. Bryan, deputy assistant secretary for the Navy's energy focus, will present "Energy Innovation for Operational Effect in the Navy and Marine Corps" at 9 a.m. in Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Room 121.
• Indiana State Museum to celebrate Nov. 21 Purdue Day
• Author to speak Nov. 20 about the war on terror
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