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March 7, 2022

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Purdue to relax mask protocols in classrooms, research spaces starting March 14

With campus COVID-19 cases continuing to decline, Purdue will further relax indoor mask requirements, making masks optional in classrooms and research spaces on the West Lafayette campus effective March 14. Masks will continue to be required in health care settings and where contractually required.

Things to Know

New Ariba catalog for Amazon Business available today
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Things to Do

Office of Experiential Education seeking applications for ExEd Champions
Faculty and staff encouraged to provide feedback for classroom master plan at open house Wednesday
Applications invited for fall 2022 Service-Learning Fellows Program

In the Spotlight

Ronni Moore

Turning challenges into opportunities

As principal at Purdue Polytechnic High School North, Ronni Moore is inspired every day by her students’ persistence in their classwork, projects and pursuit of higher education.

Additional News

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Purdue growing research, outreach to deliver health care solutions

Purdue is enlarging its capacity to create, verify and deliver innovative solutions to health and health care problems with a significant expansion of the university’s Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering. The center will enhance the mission first outlined when the Regenstrief Foundation established RCHE in 2005 by venturing outside conventional boundaries for health care research.

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Purdue baseball partners with Intel to become ‘the fastest show on dirt’

Purdue’s baseball team aims to be “the fastest show on dirt.” A partnership with Intel is helping the Boilermakers turn that aspirational motto into a realistic claim. Purdue is the nation’s first college baseball program to make use of Intel’s innovative 3DAT human performance technology to learn how to adjust their posture and technique to become faster, more efficient runners. Related video

Campus

Discovery Park announces DURI projects for Summer 2022; student applications now being accepted

Sports

Purdue wrestling places 10th at Big Ten championships, secures four NCAA bids

Bringing Our Best

Purdue tapped as lead for Midwest research hub of new Air Force program

Purdue will further research and development in critical areas of national security as a lead academic partner of a new pilot initiative with the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Jeffrey Rhoads and Bryce Geesey

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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.

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WLFI: Purdue chosen as a hub for Air Force research
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Inside INdiana Business: Purdue startup receives NSF grant for Braille device
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