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January 28, 2020

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Faculty and Staff News

Anthem claims currently on hold

Human Resources – Benefits is alerting employees that system issues with Anthem are causing claims to process incorrectly. While Anthem works to resolve the issue, all claims processing has been put on hold.

Things to Do

Academic rigor to be discussed at faculty town hall
Last call to participate in Purdue’s inaugural first-generation student symposium on Thursday
Proposals invited for Global School of Health Sciences virtual conference

In the Spotlight

Tweezers holding computer chip

Reorganizing a computer chip: Transistors can now both process and store information

A computer chip processes and stores information using two different devices. If engineers could combine these devices into one or put them next to each other, then there would be more space on a chip, making it faster and more powerful. Purdue engineers have developed a way that the millions of tiny switches used to process information – called transistors – could also store that information as one device.

Additional News

Harvey Wiley and individuals in food trials

PBS show to feature work of one of Purdue's first faculty members

“The Poison Squad,” a PBS documentary airing at 9 tonight (Jan. 28), tells the story of government chemist Dr. Harvey Wiley, one of Purdue’s first chemistry professors and Indiana’s first state chemist. Wiley worked to regulate the safety of food and drugs and is known as the “Father of the Pure Food and Drugs Act.” In 1901, Wiley set out to prove Americans were being harmed by chemicals in food and organized volunteers for human trials to test the effects of chemical food preservatives.

Silk film security tag on pill

Edible ‘security tag’ to protect drugs from counterfeit

Manufacturing prescription drugs with distinct markings, colors, shapes or packaging isn’t enough to protect them from counterfeiting, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration reports have shown. Purdue researchers are aiming to stump counterfeiters with an edible “security tag” embedded into medicine. To imitate the drug, a counterfeiter would have to uncrack a complicated puzzle of patterns not fully visible to the naked eye.

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Purdue Northwest professors awarded $526,000 NSF grant to explore ‘frontiers of physics’

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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.

Bloomberg: Scientists are already working on cures for coronavirus
U.S. News & World Report, Indianapolis Business Journal: More Indiana adults returning to college to finish degrees
U.S. News & World Report: Healthy living helps keep the flu at bay
Wired: It’s a bird! It’s a plane! The midair collisions menacing air travel
Popular Science: Planes dump fuel into the sky more than you’d expect. Here’s why they do it.
Popular Science: LightSail 2’s success could pave the way for more sun-powered spacecrafts
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