An innovative College of Education program created by Jingyuan Zhang, a special education doctoral student at Purdue, is teaching young children how to better understand difference and diversity – specifically, fellow classmates with disabilities. The Purdue CDF Freedom School Program, created by the fifth-year PhD candidate, also has a general education component that teaches ways of fostering acceptance of students with disabilities.
Registration is available for the Westwood Lecture Series on Sept. 21. Deborah Knapp, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Oncology, the Dolores L. McCall Professor of Comparative Oncology and director of the Evan and Sue Ann Werling Comparative Oncology Research Center, will discuss “A New Era in Comparative Medical Research, and Opportunities to Position Purdue as a World Leader” from 4:30-5:30 p.m. at Westwood, the Purdue president’s residence.
University of Chicago President Paul Alivisatos will share the stage with Purdue President Mung Chiang at 6 p.m. Tuesday (Sept. 12) as part of Purdue’s Presidential Lecture Series. Chiang and Alivisatos will discuss the state of higher education in America today during the lecture.
It was the experience of a lifetime for members of a Purdue University delegation as they cruised the Pacific Ocean on the USS Nimitz with almost 5,000 sailors. Frank Dooley, chancellor of Purdue Global; Dimitrios Peroulis, senior vice president for Purdue University Online; and Kelvin Gumbs, executive director for educational partnerships in Purdue’s Office of Industry Partnerships, participated in this firsthand experience, which offered a unique view into the training-rich environment of sailors at sea, learning about ways to strengthen educational opportunities for officers and enlisted personnel.
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