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January 29, 2020

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Faculty and Staff News

Instructors now can move course files from Blackboard to Brightspace

Faculty and staff at the West Lafayette campus can now begin the process to migrate course materials out of Blackboard Learn and into Brightspace. Faculty and staff are encouraged to request content migration this spring, to avoid the expected last-minute backlogs.

Things to Do

Purdue Online seeks nominations for 2020 Awards for Excellence in Online Education

Things to Know

New gas cylinder rental process to begin Friday

In the Spotlight

natural neural network

Synthetic neurons project offers platform for disease treatment, further brain research

The body can recover from many things, but the damage caused by Parkinson’s disease isn’t one of them. No cure exists for Parkinson’s, which 1 million people in the U.S. are expected to be living with by 2020. But an outright cure isn’t the primary objective of research by Chongli Yuan, a Purdue University chemical engineering professor and leader of Purdue’s section of a multidisciplinary team studying the possibility of building synthetic neuron cells.

Additional News

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Tourism expert: Tips for a sustainable vacation

Americans aren’t great at planning vacations. But planning a sustainable vacation – one with a small environmental footprint that is respectful of a destination’s people and culture – is an even taller task, said Jonathon Day, an associate professor in the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management.

Starship robot on snowy campus sidewalk

A day in the life of a
Starship robot

Meet Purdue Starship robot 6E284. Take a peek into the heroic journey of a Starship delivery robot as it navigates the campus to help Boilermakers through their stressful school days. Purdue’s West Lafayette campus has been sharing its sidewalks with the fleet of Starship robots since September.

General

Purdue Online and Evidence In Motion partner to offer therapeutic pain specialist certification to health care providers in U.S. and around world
Air Force provides $1 million in funding for Purdue-related technology to improve critical pilot skills
Purdue University Fort Wayne and Michigan community college initiate student transfer agreement

Sports

2020 Purdue cheer prep clinics announced

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Ruha Benjamin, author of ‘Race After Technology,’ to give Spring 2020 Critical Data Studies Distinguished Lecture

Purdue in the News

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

Senior Planet: Healthy Aging: About the coronavirus
Wired: One small fix would curb stingray surveillance
The 360 Magazine: Sustainable vacation planning: Tips and tricks
WTHR: Purdue researchers testing ways to prevent potholes
Inside INdiana Business: Sisters develop sustainable package protection product
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