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Purdue’s Board of Trustees on Friday (Aug. 7) approved 2021 health plans, aligning with the university’s strategic approach to health care and the Healthy Boiler Program initiative. The changes for 2021 were approved as part of a multiyear strategy and the ongoing pursuit of improving population health and controlling overall costs for employees and the university.
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Nearly 1,400 of Purdue’s newest graduates heard their names called during the University’s summer on-demand commencement. Purdue alumna Marjorie Magner, a founding member and partner of Brysam Global Partners, provided the commencement keynote, and Aaron B. Benjamin of Haddonfield, New Jersey, served as the student responder (at 1:21:14 mark). In the photo: Some summer graduates returned to campus to take photos to mark the occasion. |
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About 50% of people who take the drug infliximab for inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn’s disease, end up becoming resistant or unresponsive to it. Scientists might be able to catch problems like this one earlier in the drug development process, when drugs move from testing in animals to clinical trials, with a new computational model developed by researchers from Purdue University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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War zones can be too far from operating rooms, preventing soldiers from receiving the surgery they need fast enough. A Purdue University-led study is the first to show medics successfully performing surgery in life-like simulations of these war zones by receiving guidance from surgeons through an augmented reality headset. The work is joint with Purdue's School of Industrial Engineering and the Department of Computer Science.
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Here is a sampling of recent news reports about Purdue from media across the nation and the world. | |
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Meg Sorg, a clinical assistant professor in the School of Nursing, provides tips to help children get comfortable wearing a mask all day – especially as school districts and states require masks in the school setting. |
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