Purdue Today. 150 Years of Giant Leaps

May 2, 2019

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Faculty and Staff News

Blackboard Learn will be down for upgrade evening of May 11

Blackboard Learn will be inaccessible beginning at 7 p.m. May 11 until 1 a.m. May 12 for an upgrade that will allow instructors to incorporate documents from cloud-based services such as Google Docs.

Things to Know

May is Mental Health Month; employees, dependents have many resources within reach

Things to Do

Finalists for director of Purdue Policy Research Institute to begin on-campus presentations today

In the Spotlight

Freeman, Pitts

2019 Murphy Award recipients: Jennifer Freeman and Yvonne Pitts

Five exceptional teachers have been selected as recipients of the 2019 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in Memory of Charles B. Murphy. Today's profiles will focus on Jennifer Freeman, associate professor in the School of Health Sciences, and Yvonne Pitts, associate professor in the Department of History.

Additional News

Discovery park luxury apartments

Discovery Park District to
add luxury apartments,
commercial real estate

Officials of Browning Investments LLC and J.C. Hart Co. Inc. announced Tuesday (April 30) a joint venture to develop about 250 luxury apartments and 15,000 square feet of street-level commercial space in Discovery Park District, a 400-acre $1 billion-plus development that will transform the west side of the Purdue campus.

Autonomous vehicle

Autonomous go-karts:
Don’t pour a bottle of milk
over this race winner

In less than a month, Helio Castroneves, Tony Kanaan, Scott Dixon and last year’s champ, Will Power, will look to add to their Borg-Warner trophy cases by winning the Indianapolis 500. But one of the winners at events at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway this May won’t be a person. It will be an autonomous car.

Research

AI project on machine learning wants computers to anticipate what data users want
Keeping it clean: How diaper sensors can better detect urinary tract infections, reduce more severe diseases
Researchers in various studies looking for participants

General

Effort to improve rescue kits for people with diabetes, hypoglycemia gets $1.4 million boost with SBIR grant

Campus

Earth Week featured 10 years of Tree Campus USA recognition

Sports

Ambrosio receives at-large bid for 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships

Events

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Lectures and Guest Speakers

Purdue in the News

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

Chemical and Engineering News: Benzene found in the water supply of fire-ravaged Paradise, California
WLFI, Inside INdiana Business: Purdue plans for new Veterinary Teaching Hospital
Inside INdiana Business: Purdue students create innovation website
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette: PFW chancellor tells council ‘who we are, what we stand for’
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