Purdue Today.

June 10, 2020

Current web edition

Protect Purdue

Faculty and Staff News

Message to students: Purdue is getting ready for you

Incoming and continuing Purdue University students were to receive an email Tuesday (June 9) that highlights the comprehensive Protect Purdue efforts underway to reopen the West Lafayette campus to in-person courses as well as offering a fully online option this fall amid COVID-19.

Protect Purdue

Campus cleaning and disinfection practices ramp up
West Lafayette campus reopening status timeline

Things to Know

University Senate minutes available
Purdue obituaries

Things to Do

Butler Center seeking project proposals on enabling inclusion at Purdue
Friday: Virtual discussion to highlight accessibility best practices for teaching remotely

In the Spotlight

Buzon at excavated site

Archaeologist sinks teeth into understanding cultural identity, interactions in ancient Nile River Valley

Like fingerprints, teeth are unique to each individual. Dental records are useful in identifying human remains, but what can tooth enamel tell us about an individual – or an entire civilization – of 3,000 years ago in the Nile River Valley?

Additional News

illustrated image from learning app about pollinators

Can video games save the honeybee?

A Purdue professor has collaborated with the Envision Center on virtual learning modules for high school students that he hopes will increase awareness about the declining populations of flowers and pollinators, and help the next generation come up with conservation solutions.

podcast cover

Podcast on necessities, work during COVID-19

On the latest episode of "This Is Purdue," Ananth Iyer, the Susan Bulkeley Butler Chair in Operations Management, goes in-depth about the supply chain process, and Ellen Kossek, the Basil S. Turner Professor of Management, offers advice for those working remotely.

Research

Engineering method designed to help prevent catastrophic failures in electric grids, logistics systems

General

Today: Krannert School of Management to present COVID-19 webinar on current, post-pandemic challenges
Purdue Engineering Rising to the Challenge webinar to examine advancing freight truck automation to enhance safety, efficiency in light of COVID-19
Today's Top 5 From Purdue University

Campus

Integrative Data Science Initiative launches new undergraduate certificate

Teaching and Learning

Purdue offering new online Agile project management course

Bringing Our Best

Purdue Extension, Prairie Farms providing milk to local food pantries

Purdue Extension is partnering with Prairie Farms to distribute gallons of milk to those in need as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmers to Families Food Box Program. Over 2,000 gallons of milk have been distributed in the past two weeks to local food banks and nonprofits across the state.

Person outdoors in mask, holding gallon jug of milk

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Events

Virtual events this week
Events information

Purdue in the News

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

Hoover Institution: Uncommon knowledge – Mitch Daniels: Plain talk from the president of Purdue
Wall Street Journal: A trip to Antarctica transformed my life
Bloomberg News Keep the middle seat empty for now, please
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, Mattoon (Ill.) Times-Courier: Facts for families: Keeping your fur friends happy when returning to work
Dark Reading: Q&A: Eugene Spafford on the risks of internet voting
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