Faculty and Staff News

Purdue to activate all-hazards outdoor sirens, conduct evacuation drills today

Purdue will conduct evacuation drills for new students and test its all-hazards outdoor emergency warning sirens today (Aug. 17) during Boiler Gold Rush, the orientation program for new students. The drills and siren test will be canceled in the event of inclement weather.

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• PEAP offering discount for two Indianapolis Indians games

In the Spotlight

Robotic technology may provide more insight into neurological diseases

Purdue researchers are a step closer to answering one of the critical questions about the brain — how neural networks in the organ perform the computations necessary for higher-level brain functions. The technology also provides a new tool for the potential development of medications for neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis and epilepsy.

Additional News

General

• Back a Boiler selected for better government award

• Purdue Recreation & Wellness to celebrate opening of new fields

• Purdue's latest land value survey shows farmland values are up in Indiana

Research

• Low bandwidth? Use more colors at once

Purdue in the News

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

• HPC Wire, R&D Magazine, Phys.org: Transistor technology may improve speed, battery life for computers, mobile devices and more

• WTHR, WXIN, WIVB (Buffalo, N.Y.): Purdue students, professor set world records

• WLFI: New breastfeeding simulator named 'Martina' could bring new resources to help train nurses

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