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Purdue’s top students to be recognized during 2021 commencement Note to journalists: Images of the Flora Roberts and G.A. Ross award winners are available on Google Drive. Journalists visiting campus should follow visitor health guidelines. Journalists interested in attending Purdue’s in-person commencements on May15-16 can contact Matthew Oates at oatesw@purdue.edu to arrange for credentials. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University on Tuesday (May 5) announced the recipients of some of its highest awards for the academic year. The university’s top female student is Alexandra “Sash...

All photo credit: Thermwood Corp. Purdue University’s Composites Manufacturing Simulation Center (CMSC, West Lafayette, Ind., U.S.) and Thermwood Corp. (Dale, Ind., U.S.) have agreed to establish a large-scale additive manufacturing (LSAM) laboratory to perform industry-funded research into large-scale composite thermoplastic additive manufacturing (AM). The new facility will be established at Purdue’s Indiana Manufacturing Institute, located in the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette, Ind., and will be staffed and operated by Purdue CMSC personnel. The official name for the new fa...

RICHMOND, Ind. — Students, faculty and staff members of three Richmond colleges are eligible for upcoming COVID-19 vaccination clinics. Reid Health and Indiana University East are partnering to offer vaccinations to students, faculty and staff of IU East, Ivy Tech Community College Richmond and Purdue Polytechnic Richmond. Out-of-state residents who are enrolled or employed at the schools are eligible to receive vaccinations during the clinic. Family members, however, are not eligible, and the clinic is not available to the public. The first clinic will be 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursday, April 8, ...

Online course from Purdue hastens, heightens disaster recovery planning and execution WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A seasoned construction professional dispatched in response to Hurricane Katrina, Randy Rapp found out fast that a disaster recovery job presents special challenges, with time of the essence, unanticipated and difficult conditions in play, and immediate, accurate and thorough responses required literally around the clock. “I had the background in construction, but I was missing the nuances that make disaster recovery different,” said Rapp, an associate professor in the School of ...

Courtesy of Charles Jischke/Purdue University This story is part of a group of stories called How do teachers captivate their students? Here, in a feature we call How I Teach, we ask great educators how they approach their jobs. When she started her teaching career in Indianapolis Public Schools, Shatoya Ward tried to reach every student who came into her classroom. Some of them she could connect with, and some of them she couldn’t. She wondered: What happened to the students who struggled? When Ward went to work at an adult high school, geared toward helping those over 18 finish t...