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April 26, 2018 |
Faculty and Staff News
Purdue Day of Giving hits $37.6 million, sets fourth straight record
Purdue University set the collegiate record for single-day fundraising on Wednesday (April 25), raising $37.6 million through Purdue Day of Giving and besting its own record-setting performance of $28.2 million in 2017. This year’s online event marked the fourth consecutive year that Purdue has raised the most dollars for higher education in a 24-hour timespan.
Other Stories
• Finals week workshops can save faculty time creating an online course
• Blackboard Learn upgrade scheduled for May 12
• Author Joan Middendorf to discuss enhancing student learning
• Finalists for dean of the Graduate School to make on-campus presentations Friday, Monday
In the Spotlight
2018 Murphy Award recipients: Mark Lipton and Haley Oliver
Five exceptional teachers have been selected as recipients of the 2018 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in Memory of Charles B. Murphy. Today's Q&A's will focus on Mark Lipton, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry, and Haley Oliver, associate professor in the Department of Food Science.
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Additional News
General
• Applied Research Institute unveils new name and brand, awards contract to Purdue
• Horticulture Park officially reopens to campus and community »
• Boltasseva provides final presentation for spring President's Colloquia events
• Purdue senior-design students to display 60 inventions
Research
• Purdue archaeologists part of ancient horse find in Nile River Valley
• New method for interpreting cryo-EM maps makes it easier to determine protein structures
• Switch controls light on a nanoscale for faster information processing
• Researchers in various studies looking for participants
Sports
• Wanamarta named Big Ten Women’s Golf Freshman of the Year
Purdue in the News
Here is a sampling of recent news reports about Purdue from media across the nation and the world.
• Indianapolis Star, Inside Indiana Business, WLFI: Fastest street-legal car to be built at Purdue
• Inside Indiana Business: New name, first contract for defense tech institute
• Yahoo India, Silicon Valley Business Journal, GeekWire: New silicon-level Intel technology to prevent cyberattacks
• NPR Tech Nation: The Valley of Arequipa, Peru
Events
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• MIT’s Arup Chakraborty to give Discovery Park Distinguished Lecture today
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