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June 1, 2020

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Faculty and Staff News

ITaP video production service helps the virtual classroom feel like the real thing

ITaP’s Video and Multimedia Production Services can help instructors develop resources for remote learning, including classroom recording, video editing and web conferencing.

Things to Know

Updates made to form, process for change in duty station
This week's 'Thumbs Up' recipients

In the Spotlight

Working in the SPIT Lab

BTN LiveBIG: Inside the Purdue lab focused on spit

What would you rather eat, a ribeye or a rutabaga? Tater tots or celery spears? Cheesy pizza or poached salmon? These questions are of the sort investigated at Purdue University's unique SPIT (Saliva, Perception, Ingestion, and Tongues) Lab.


Related: Purdue's SPIT Lab is one many research areas highlighted in a recent photo gallery.

Additional News

Luna Lu portrait

Enabling highways and bridges to prevent their own damage

Roads always seem to need repairs. Luna Lu is giving concrete the ability to “talk” and even heal itself. Her lab at Purdue University is developing technology that would allow concrete-paved bridges and highways to reveal more accurately when they need repairs and to come equipped with materials that respond to potential damage.

Couple holding hands and having coffee

More time together can bring more challenges for couples during pandemic

The COVID-19 global pandemic brought people together, but that immediate and forced togetherness can cause issues for couples, even in the strongest of relationships. A Purdue University social scientist who studies marriage and family therapy says it’s important to give space to one’s significant other while also maintaining that relationship.

General

Patented technology designed to stop tiny errors from crashing large health care, supply chain systems
Chip for biomolecule detection may help in COVID-19 testing

Campus

Purdue School of Languages and Cultures shifts to fully online language placement testing

People

Appointments, honors and activities

Events

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Bringing Our Best

Nursing students balance academics and work on front lines of the pandemic

The School of Nursing has a large number of graduate students who are committed to serving as registered nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic while also continuing and completing their graduate studies.

Nurse in PPE

Purdue in the News

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

CBS News: Workers returning to office buildings may face health risks other than coronavirus
National Geographic: Is it safe to travel now? It depends.
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