Purdue Today. 150 Years of Giant Leaps

November 22, 2019

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Faculty and Staff News

Winter walking: Tips to avoid slip and fall injuries

Purdue employees experience slips and falls due to snowy and icy conditions every winter. Some injuries are severe and have a long-term physical effect on the employee. Broken hips, broken arms and injuries to backs or heads are among the most serious.

Things to Know

Schoorman, Smith receive Purdue’s inaugural Outstanding Leadership in Globalization Awards

Things to Do

Faculty, staff, students invited to Violet Haas and Leadership in Action awards reception

In the Spotlight

Purdue Railyard

Wall Street Journal lists Purdue No. 3 nationally, No. 6
globally in startup creation from university technologies

The Wall Street Journal lists Purdue University sixth-best globally and third-best in the U.S. in a recent article highlighting startups generated from university-licensed technologies over the past 12 months.

Additional News

Purdue campus

Engineering accelerates research and innovation with AT&T 5G

The College of Engineering is working with AT&T to create a test bed for 5G-based research and development at its Purdue Research Lab. Located in the newly launched Indiana 5G Zone, the lab will use AT&T’s 5G+ millimeter wave and commercially available Multi-access Edge Computing technologies to help solve societal challenges like disaster recovery in rural, agricultural areas and explore new use cases for where business and community intersect.

Heidi A. Carl and Kai Mangiaracina

Back a Boiler program tops 1,000th contract for student funding

When Purdue junior Kai Mangiaracina hit the "submit" button for his application to the university's Back a Boiler – ISA Fund for the current academic year, he had no idea that his was to become the program's 1,000th contract. He also wasn't aware that what was a milestone for the income share agreement program, which provides students an alternative to Federal Parent PLUS and private student loans, was to become a windfall for him.

General

Reimagined thermionic energy technology to help reduce electricity costs
Envision Center VR app teaches construction workers not to fall
Make sure to pass only the turkey and not the flu over Thanksgiving

Campus

Purdue RecWell app now available for download

Sports

Historic season continues for men's cross country team

Events

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Lectures and Speakers

Other Events

Purdue composers to be featured in chamber singers’ concert

Purdue in the News

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

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Providence Journal: Time to give thanks for affordable and sustainable turkey
Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader: Mercy teams up with online university to offer employees 'tuition reduction' for college programs
Wirecutter: The best gifts for 8-year-olds
WXIN: Trading trains for planes: Purdue students prepare for aviation career with high-tech flight simulator
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