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Purdue Today
April 17, 2025
| AWARDS & RECOGNITION
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Staff Excellence: Innovation Hub
Through funding, resources and strategic collaboration, the Innovation Hub team is helping faculty explore and implement innovative teaching practices, like integrating generative AI into the curriculum. They also help scale successful projects across disciplines to enhance student success. Through this work, the Innovation Hub is driving educational innovation and helping prepare students for a rapidly changing world.
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|  SCHOLARLY EXCELLENCE 
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Researchers recruit killers to a tumor fight: Antibody immunotherapies developed to treat glioblastoma
Purdue researchers are developing innovative antibody-based immunotherapies that recruit and improve the function of the body’s innate immune system to treat glioblastoma, an incurable brain tumor. Professor Sandro Matosevic’s patent-pending work improves upon traditional molecules to recruit and activate natural killer cells, a type of white blood cell that has granules with enzymes to kill tumor cells or virus-infected cells.
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Purdue Research Blog: Early autism diagnosis enhanced by eye-tracking technology
In this post, Brandon Keehn, an associate professor in the College of Health and Human Sciences and a member of the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience, discusses his recently published research, “Eye-Tracking Biomarkers and Autism Diagnosis in Primary Care,” which appears in JAMA Network with the support of the National Institutes of Health and the Riley Children’s Foundation.
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  • Researchers in various studies looking for participants
| EVENTS
Purdue Global to celebrate the results of hard work, sacrifice at May commencement
Purdue Global, Purdue’s online university for working adults, will host five commencement ceremonies at Purdue’s West Lafayette location May 3 for 2,654 graduates — 1,830 across three in-person ceremonies and 824 participating in two virtual ceremonies — a record high for a Purdue Global commencement weekend.
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| THINGS TO KNOW
‘This Is Purdue:’ Purdue President Mung Chiang talks pharma innovation and AI at Fast Company panel during SXSW
During the annual SXSW Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas, Purdue President Mung Chiang participated in a live Brands That Matter panel  at the Fast Company Grill. In this episode of “This Is Purdue,” listen as Chiang took the stage along with Sean Bruich, senior vice president of artificial intelligence and data at Amgen, and Tatyana Kanzaveli, chief operating officer of Open Health Network.
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FACULTY AND STAFF
  • MaPSAC awards grants to 14 employees for professional development
  • This week’s ‘Thumbs Up’ recipients
CAMPUS
  • Today: Purdue police, Center for Advocacy, Response and Education team up for ‘Cover the Cruiser’
PURDUE IN THE NEWS
  • Fast Company: How AI is transforming the pharma product pipeline
  • Interesting Engineering: New U.S. nuclear reactor shield tames star-like power with novel steel-concrete mix
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