Faculty and Staff News

Healthy Boiler Wellness Program launches

The new year is off to a cold start, but Human Resources is hoping to warm things up for employees with the new Healthy Boiler Wellness Program. Effective Jan. 1, the program is up and running, offering benefits-eligible faculty and staff -- as well as spouses covered on a Purdue medical plan -- the opportunity to earn up to $500 in incentives to participate.

Other Stories

• CIE, Teaching Academy to explore teaching, learning through reading groups for faculty

• Purdue volunteers to honor MLK through Day of Service

• Faculty and staff invited to attend free webinar series on disability rights history

In the Spotlight

Babies stir up clouds of bio-gunk when they crawl

When babies crawl, their movement across floors, especially carpeted surfaces, kicks up high levels of dirt, skin cells, bacteria, pollen, and fungal spores, a new study has found. The infants inhale a dose of bio bits in their lungs that is four times (per kilogram of body mass) what an adult would breathe walking across the same floor. As alarming as that sounds, lead researcher Brandon Boor of Purdue University is quick to add that this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Additional News

Research

• Study uncovers distinctions in major crop genome evolutions

• Researchers in various studies looking for participants

General

• Events to honor distinguished Purdue business mentor

• Career assessment services to be offered for high schoolers

• Don’t forget about your pets during cold weather

• ‘Returning to play,’ HIIT and live-streamed classes: Purdue expert available to talk top fitness trends for 2018

Sports

• Cuttino collects 3 more All-America nods

Purdue in the News

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

• Futurity: Why blue light makes old flies go blind

• Journal & Courier, Indianapolis Star, WISH: Work starts on 1st piece in Purdue’s renamed, $1.2B west campus plan

• Inside Indiana Business, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne News-Sentinel: IPFW, Sweetwater to announce partnership

Events

	Don't Miss It! Lectures and Guest Speakers This week's events Events for the next four weeks Ongoing series and opportunities Deadlines for faculty and staff

• Freedom Riders’ matinee performance coming to Purdue on Jan. 28

• Purdue Jewish Studies Program announces spring lecture series

• Guitarist Jiji to perform at Purdue on Jan. 26

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