Mark your calendars for a first-of-its-kind Purdue celebration! Join us for the “In Our STEM Era” Makerspace event during the big concert weekend in Indianapolis Nov. 2-3. It’s where fans can meet up to chat about careers and pathways while making binary code friendship bracelets, designing their own photo op and getting a Glow Up at the beauty bar with e.l.f. Cosmetics. Learn more at InOurSTEMEra.com.
The global reputation of Purdue’s White Lodging-J.W. Marriott, Jr. School of Hospitality and Tourism Management turned a “Dream Hire” into a reality. A three-time Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher, professor Kevin Kam Fung So joined the HTM faculty this fall with a bevy of research awards and thousands of research article citations and downloads in tow.
Purdue President Mung Chiang was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on Sept. 21. Chiang, the Roscoe H. George Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was elected to the Class of Mathematical and Physical Sciences in the area of Engineering and Technology. There are currently 11 Purdue-affiliated members in the American Academy of Arts and Science.
Registration is open for faculty to attend the Westwood Lecture Series
on Oct. 28. Jan Cover, professor of philosophy in the College of Liberal Arts, will present “Puzzles of Portraiture” from 4:30-5:30 p.m. at Westwood, the Purdue president’s residence. The Westwood Lecture Series is an opportunity for Purdue faculty and those staff members engaged in the research topic to interact with colleagues on scholarly work. The program is aimed at enhancing the intellectual vibrancy of the Purdue West Lafayette campus. Space is limited to the first 50 faculty who register online.
Each year, Purdue 101 guides students through various university resources and the course planning process before they arrive on campus. However, Purdue 101 does more than prepare students academically — it also helps fight food insecurity. For every incoming student who completed Purdue 101 before June 10, a $1 donation was made to the ACE Campus Food Pantry. This year’s incoming class broke records by raising an impressive $9,236 for the pantry.
