Purdue Today. 150 Years of Giant Leaps

October 8, 2019

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Faculty and Staff News

Have tickets for Condoleezza Rice’s sold-out visit? Here is what you need to know about ticket pickup.

If you have already claimed tickets for “An Evening with Condoleezza Rice” on Wednesday (Oct. 9), you will need to make advance arrangements to pick up tickets with a valid photo ID. Tickets may be picked up at the Loeb Box Office in Stewart Center today (Oct. 8) or Wednesday, and will call will be available starting at 3 p.m. Wednesday near the Purdue Bell Tower outside of Elliott Hall of Music.

Things to Know

Purdue obituaries

Things to Do

Out with the old, in with the new … habits, that is
Workshop to provide education on aging well

In the Spotlight

NASA exhibition montage inside trailer

Video: Journey to Tomorrow exhibit trailer coming Friday

The Journey to Tomorrow exhibit trailer is a 53-foot exhibit offering an interactive learning environment that highlights NASA’s air and space research and technology. The exhibit will be open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday (Oct. 11) and 9 a.m.-noon Saturday (Oct. 12) on the south side of Lambert Fieldhouse.

Additional News

Julia Badger with space robot model

Purdue alums advancing the space industry

Purdue upholds the Cradle of Astronauts tradition, graduating 24 NASA astronauts and one recent commercial astronaut. More than one-third of all U.S. spaceflights with humans aboard have included at least one Boilermaker. And on the ground, hundreds, if not thousands, of Purdue alumni work in the space industry today.

baby albatross and many plastic items on sandy beach

BTN LiveBIG: Professors look to transform plastics

The United Nations estimates that more than 8 million tons of plastics flow into the oceans each year. A Purdue team is working on a new chemical conversion process that could transform the world’s polyolefin waste, a form of plastic, into useful products, such as clean fuels and other items.

Research

Hypersonic vehicles focus of research agreement with Dynetics Inc.

General

PSUB accepting submissions for annual Christmas tree

Campus

Digital Humanities Studio open house set for Monday
ESE symposium to explore merits, possibilities of sustainable development goals
Purdue Fall Undergraduate Research Expo now accepting research talk and poster abstract submissions

Teaching and Learning

Libraries’ Mobile Maker Team to talk Friday at Tech Today session

Sports

Baseball to host Halloween Bash on Oct. 29

Events

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Purdue in the News

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

NBC News: Getting a second dog? Be ready for something different
MEL Magazine: Ranking artificial flavors by how much they taste like the real thing
United Press International: Farmers get ‘negligible’ benefit from insecticide that may kill bees, researchers say
IT World: Is hybrid cloud certification right for you?
Indianapolis Star, WRTV: Purdue Online partnership offers master’s degrees in engineering
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