Purdue University’s talented workforce is only as strong and robust as it is healthy. And every day, Center for Healthy Living staff members strive to provide an environment where employees and their spouses and dependents can receive the resources, information and treatment necessary to maintain — and enhance — their overall health and wellness.
Nobel laureate Lars Peter Hansen, an expert at the forefront of economic thinking and asset-price modeling, will join Purdue President Mung Chiang for the next edition of the Presidential Lecture Series. Hansen’s talk, titled “Uncertainty in Our Scientific Inputs Into Policy: Disguise It or Embrace It?” is at 6 p.m. Oct. 17.
Purdue Global, Purdue’s online university for working adults, will host commencement ceremonies on Purdue University’s West Lafayette campus Saturday (Oct. 5) for nearly 1,500 in-person graduates and 764 graduates participating in virtual ceremonies — a record high for a Purdue Global commencement weekend.
Join officials and leaders in advanced manufacturing in pharmaceuticals from 3-6 p.m. Friday (Oct. 4) to kick off the space renovation for the William D. and Sherry L. Young Institute for Advanced Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals in the Indiana Manufacturing Institute. Tour the space and learn more about advanced manufacturing and opportunities to participate with the Young Institute and LyoHUB.
A new book co-written by Darlene Russ-Eft, assistant professor of practice of technology leadership and innovation at Purdue Polytechnic, provides guidance on organization and productivity at work. “Evaluation in Organizations: A Systematic Approach to Enhancing Learning, Performance, and Change” provides organizations with tools to measure the effectiveness of their programs, processes and systems. Related: A list of recently published Purdue authors is also available online.
Physicists at Purdue have developed an innovative method to detect the motion of individual particles in quantum materials. This work, led by Alex Ruichao Ma, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, offers new insights into the quantum world and paves the way for future discoveries in quantum science and technologies.
In the latest episode of “This Is Purdue,” George Karlaftis, Kansas City Chiefs defensive end and two-time Super Bowl champion, discusses what drew him to Purdue football and how he balanced being an All-Big Ten first team athlete with earning a degree in selling and sales management.
Purdue University Galleries recently launched a fully digitized and searchable website showcasing its permanent collection. For the first time, Purdue's permanent collection is publicly searchable, benefiting not only the university community but also global classrooms and art researchers.
