Purdue Today. 150 Years of Giant Leaps

November 20, 2019

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Faculty and Staff News

Resources available to help faculty and staff get
acquainted with Brightspace

As Purdue prepares to move to D2L Brightspace, the new learning management system replacing Blackboard Learn, faculty and staff will have opportunities to become familiar with the new system before it is implemented for the fall 2020 semester.

In the Spotlight

drone over rocky island coast

Drones, lasers to help unravel the mysteries of a
Mediterranean island

A quarry, a prison site or a religious location? Purdue engineering and liberal arts researchers are using drones to help answer the question about the past use of an island of Turkey.

Additional News

Jessica Huber

Device continues to
improve communication
in Parkinson’s disease

A growing number of people with Parkinson’s disease are finding the ability to communicate with a wearable device developed by a Purdue University speech-language researcher and entrepreneur. SpeechVive uses a reflex to improve communication. The device plays noise in a user’s ear when they are talking, which elicits the reflex, resulting in speech that is automatically louder, clearer and lower.

children playing with Gift Guide toys

INSPIRE Gift Guide offers holiday shopping items that are fun, educational

This year’s Purdue University Engineering Gift Guide’s list of toys and games offers an opportunity for learning where kids simply see entertainment. Purdue’s INSPIRE Research Institute for Pre-College Engineering released its Engineering Gift Guide, which boasts more than 120 toys, books and games for children ages 1-18 in categories ranging from building and circuits to logic and puzzles.

General

How India’s changing cotton sector has led to distress, illnesses, failure

Campus

Northwestern Avenue Parking Garage to be used as event parking for home basketball games

Events

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Purdue Contemporary Dance Company to present Winter Works dance concert

Purdue in the News

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

Black Christian News Network, Christianity Today: Praying for Hong Kong can be politically disruptive, even in America
Lafayette Journal & Courier, WLFI, Lakeshore Public Media: Surgeon General Jerome Adams’ visit to Purdue: 3 takeaways on the opioid epidemic
WLFI, Lafayette Journal & Courier: Purdue Research Foundation donates field lights to Abby and Libby Memorial Park
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