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2 hrs ago | WTHR-TV Indianapolis

As many as 7 hurt in 3-vehicle crash near Muncie

A crash involving three vehicles near Muncie has sent as many as seven people - including five children - to a hospital.

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Related Topix: Weather, Indianapolis, IN

13 hrs ago | Evansville Courier & Press

Community Comment: Avoiding pessimism among graduates' biggest challenges

By Mitch Daniels / Special to the Courier & Press Former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is the president of Purdue University.

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Related Topix: Mitch Daniels, US Governors, Indiana, Famine, Natural Disasters

Sat May 18, 2013

Agri Marketing

Purdue Workshops To Give Current Information On Crop Development

PURDUE WORKSHOPS TO GIVE CURRENT INFORMATION ON CROP DEVELOPMENT May 17, 2013 Source: Purdue University news release Crop producers and people involved in field scouting can learn about what to look for at different times of the growing season during two workshops offered by Purdue University.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Entomology

The Indianapolis Star

Nearly 250 faculty, students, community members provide ideas on how Purdue can save $40M

President Mitch Daniels isn’t the only one at Purdue University on a quest to save money at the West Lafayette campus.

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Related Topix: West Lafayette, IN, Chemistry, Science

WLFI-TV West Lafayette

City leaders prep for annexation vote

West Lafayette leaders are preparing for the first vote on the proposed annexation that would nearly double the city's area.

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Related Topix: West Lafayette, IN, Lafayette, IN, Fire

Fri May 17, 2013

Indianapolis Business News

PANEL: Life sciences will see radically different future

IBJ convened a panel of experts at its Life Sciences Power Breakfast on May 10 to talk about the industry issues of venture capital, digital health innovations and research university entrepreneurship.

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Medical News Today

Nutrition Science Focuses On White Vegetables In Supporting A Healthy, Well-Balanced Diet

Potatoes and other white vegetables are just as important to a healthy diet as their colorful cousins in the produce aisle, according to the authors of a scientific supplement published in the peer-reviewed journal, Advances in Nutrition .

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Vegetables, Medicine, Nutrition, Potatoes

Thu May 16, 2013

Medical News Today

Purdue Innovation Could Help People With Severe Hearing Loss

Mel Chua, a Purdue University doctoral candidate in engineering education, received her current set of hearing aids in May 2012.

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Related Topix: Audiology, Medicine, Health

Workforce

'We Are Ready': Millennials Respond to Complaints They're Not Prepared for the Workforce

It doesn't matter what hiring surveys say about recent graduates being unprepared to join the workforce; Kevin Niemi isn't listening.

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Related Topix: University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Wed May 15, 2013

WISH-TV Indianapolis

Plane crashes into fence at PU Airport

In what one police chief is calling a strange event, officials are investigating a crashed plane at Purdue University Airport.

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Related Topix: Air Accidents, US News, Federal Aviation Administration

Alabama Live

Auburn University announces new sciences and mathematics dean

AUBURN, Alabama -- A Purdue University physics professor will head up Auburn University's College of Sciences and Mathematics beginning Aug.

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Related Topix: Auburn, AL, Auburn University

Daily Mail

Eating your whites is as important as eating your greens: Potato and...

Researchers say that potatoes and other white vegetables are often overlooked from a nutritional standpoint - but that they are just as healthy as more colourful vegetables.

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Related Topix: Potatoes, Life, Food, Vegetables, Medicine, Nutrition

Tue May 14, 2013

Park Record

PCHS students get national accolade

According to Bob O'Connor, principal at Park City High School, as the leader of the school it is always a special moment seeing students leave with success.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Utah, Standardized Testing, Education, Brown University, Park City, UT

R & D

'Makers' 3D print shapes created using new design tool, bare hands

A new design tool interprets hand gestures, enabling designers and artists to create and modify 3D shapes using only their hands as a "natural user interface" instead of keyboard and mouse.

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Related Topix: Keyboards, Mice

Mon May 13, 2013

Reading Eagle/Reading Times

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Held senior leadership positions in many manufacturing companies for the past 35 years.

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Related Topix: Lehigh County, PA, Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Science, University of Dallas, Perkasie, PA, Bucks County, PA

Newswise

Major Field Campaign Targets Improvement in Thunderstorm Prediction

To help better predict where and when spring thunderstorms will rip across Colorado's Front Range and the adjacent High Plains, researchers are launching a major field project this week with high-flying aircraft and fine-grained computer simulations.

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Related Topix: Weather, Colorado State University, University of Georgia Albany State, SUNY Albany, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

USA Today

Will college students buy YouTubea s subscriptioa

In the past decade, YouTube has become synonymous with free entertainment . Now a new program may change the way college students access their favorite content.

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The Indianapolis Star

Ball State's Jo Ann Gora among nation's highest paid public college presidents in 2012

A database compiled by the Chronicle of Higher Education listed Ball State University's President Jo Ann Gora as the nation's fifth-highest earning public college president from 2011 to 2012.

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Related Topix: Ball State University

Agri Marketing

Wet Winter, Spring Make Nitrogen Carryover Unlikely

WET WINTER, SPRING MAKE NITROGEN CARRYOVER UNLIKELY May 13, 2013 Source: Purdue University news release Extra nitrogen left in the soil after drought reduced corn yields last year has likely been lost with excess soil moisture in the winter and spring, a Purdue Extension agronomist says.

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Related Topix: Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought, Agriculture, Science

Sun May 12, 2013

Examiner.com

Autistic teen with genius IQ serves as role model for others

A young boy from Indiana is proving that no one should underestimate the abilities of those living with an autism diagnosis.

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