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The annual retirement recognition luncheon for Purdue employees will be held on June 27. The luncheon will honor employees retiring July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2019. Honorees have already received their invitations. Others wishing to attend to honor the retirees should register at
www.conf.purdue.edu/hrevents.
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“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind,” echoed from millions of television sets in the late evening of July 20, 1969, as Purdue alumnus Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon. Purdue, known as the “Cradle of Astronauts,” will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with a series of events July 18-20, including a presentation by Apollo 11’s flight director, showings of a new Armstrong documentary, children’s activities and various panels featuring space authors and others who knew Armstrong or worked on the Apollo 11 mission.
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Purdue ranked 12th in the world among universities granted U.S. utility patents in 2018, matching its best finish in the annual rankings put out by the National Academy of Inventors and the Intellectual Property Owners Association. The Purdue Research Foundation reported that Purdue had 126 U.S. utility patents in 2018, the most ever reported by the University.
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The true cause of Parkinson’s disease is still a mystery to researchers, although they do know that in many patients, a protein called alpha-synuclein (aSyn) tends to aggregate in brain cells. But a different protein could help stop that aggregation, according to a new study in the Journal of Molecular Biology.
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Here is a sampling of recent news reports about Purdue from media across the nation and the world. | |
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