Purdue trustees ratify faculty positions, approve new degree programs, award posthumous degree, honor friends of the university
Note to Journalists: Photos are available on Google Drive. Journalists visiting campus should follow visitor health guidelines. Barry Pittendrigh
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. The Purdue University Board of Trustees on Friday (Feb. 5) ratified two faculty positions, approved three new degree programs and awarded a posthumous bachelor’s degree. Trustees also issued resolutions of appreciation for friends of the university.
The ratified faculty positions are Barry Pittendrigh as the John V. Osmun Chair in Urban Entomology and Margo Monteith as a Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences, both on the West Lafayette campus.
Lewisburg educator earns ‘Master Teacher’ role with digital library [The Daily Item, Sunbury, Pa.]
Feb. 2 Lewisburg Area School District’s Hannah Irion-Frake was named a Master Teacher Ambassador by Epic, a global digital reading platform that reaches 20 million children in grades 6 and under.
Irion-Frake teaches third grade at Kelly Elementary. She’s in her sixth year at Lewisburg Area. According to Irion-Frake, the Ambassador program will see her providing feedback through surveys, questionnaires and interviews to the teams of people that operate Epic.
According to Epic’s website, one million educators registered to use the platform. It’s free to teachers and librarians, allowing students and educators access to more than 40,000 titles. There are digital reading materials in core subject areas. Some are read-to-me books and others are full audio versions.
Commercial air service plans, financial report presented to Purdue Senate
President Mitch Daniels shared his goal of bringing commercial air service to Tippecanoe County. The university CFO also shared the outlook for FY21 with the Senate.
Posted: Jan 25, 2021 8:06 PM
Updated: Jan 26, 2021 6:06 AM
Posted By: Anna Darling
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - Purdue leaders presented several important topics to the Purdue Senate Monday afternoon.
President Mitch Daniels started by sharing his goal of bringing commercial air service to Tippecanoe County. At about 70 miles away from the Indianapolis International Airport, Purdue is at the bottom of the Big 10 schools list for distance away from a commercial airport, and he wants to change that.
Just a few weeks into the pandemic, a group of local defense attorneys began wondering how the Monterey County Superior Court system planned to keep people who had business with the court safe during the Covid-19 pandemic. By people who had business with the court, Iâm referring not only to defendants and victims or litigants, but clerks and bailiffs, attorneys, judges, witnesses and juries. On a busy day, the Salinas courthouse has hundreds and maybe even a thousand people moving in and out.
Jury trials resumed in June after the initial pandemic shutdown, and for any given trial, hundreds of jurors are often called so attorneys have a sufficient number of potentials from which to choose. On one day, about six weeks ago, the line of jurors waiting to be called into the Salinas courthouse extended from the doors down the government plaza walkway to the County Administration Building, and they were out there for hours.