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Felony Charges For Grade-Changing Scheme

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 06.17.2013 | College
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Three students from Purdue University in Indiana face felony charges for their roles in a scheme in which the students allegedly boosted their grades ...

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America Meets and Greets the World... in Mississippi!

Saul Gitlin | Posted 05.29.2013 | World
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Saul Gitlin

Established by the federal government in 2002, The Language Flagship is, today, a national network of 26 intensive programs located at 22 academic institutions and 10 overseas centers.

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Students Balance Studies and Style at Purdue University

CollegeFashionista | Posted 04.22.2013 | Style
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CollegeFashionista

Purdue places a strong emphasis on academics and a lot of students are here on scholarship. That means that many are either too busy with school to care about fashion or simply don't have it in the budget to sport the latest trends.

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Great News For Duke University's Transgender Community

The Huffington Post | Glennisha Morgan | Posted 04.17.2013 | Gay Voices
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Duke University has now joined the growing list of universities and colleges that offer health insurance coverage for gender confirmation surgery for...

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Purdue University to slash government lobbying

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 05.21.2013 | Politics
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The Center for Public Integrity

By Dave LevinthalThe Center for Public IntegrityPurdue University -- among the strongest lobbying forces in higher education -- will soon slash its ...

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Rare Disease Reported At Purdue University

Posted 02.06.2013 | Business
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A cafeteria worker at Purdue University has been diagnosed with typhoid fever, CBS station WLFI and FOX 59 report. Purdue also issued a release on beh...

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Faculty, Students Take Issue With Excessive College Administrator Pay Amid Tuition Crisis

Posted 11.14.2012 | Home
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A 2010 study by University of Arkansas education professor Jay Greene found that spending on administration has been outpacing funds for instruction a...

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Who Aging Mothers Most Want To Care For Them

The Huffington Post | Shelley Emling | Posted 10.22.2012 | Fifty
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The term "favorite child" is a loaded one. Most recently, daddy blogger Buzz Bishop sparked a public outcry by admitting he had a favorite son. An ar...

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Purdue School Year Begins With Tragedy

Posted 09.05.2012 | College
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Tragedy struck last Monday when Xavier Somerville, an 18-year-old freshman at Purdue University in Indianapolis, fell from a fifth-floor balcony at an...

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Mitch Daniels Selection As Purdue's President Causes Backlash

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 07.02.2012 | College
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Having Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels serve as Purdue University's next president is a "travesty," in Marilyn Haring's opinion. Haring, the former dean...

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Mitch Daniels' Career Move Revealed

AP | TOM COYNE | Posted 08.21.2012 | Politics
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — With Indiana hemorrhaging revenue during the Great Recession, Gov. Mitch Daniels targeted higher education to help fill t...

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Mitch Daniels Could Make Big Move

The Huffington Post | Patrick Svitek | Posted 06.19.2012 | Politics
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Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) is a candidate to be the next president of Purdue University, WISH-TV reported Tuesday. The school's board of truste...

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Lose Weight, Gain Body Confidence? Not Necessarily, Says Purdue Researcher Sarah Mustillo

Jean Fain, L.I.C.S.W., M.S.W. | Posted 07.24.2012 | Healthy Living
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Jean Fain, L.I.C.S.W., M.S.W.

What is it about our culture that makes it so darned hard for girls to have good body image? Why, in fact, does bad body image plague America's great, multi-generational sorority?

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WATCH: Giant Rube Goldberg Gizmo Takes 300 Steps To Fill, Pop Balloon

The Huffington Post | David Freeman | Posted 04.09.2012 | Science
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It's being called the world's largest Rube Goldberg machine, and it's not hard to see why. The crazy apparatus, created by Purdue University's Society...

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SLIDESHOW: Honor Top Do-Gooders For National Volunteer Month!

Posted 04.03.2012 | Impact
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The volunteers who bring hot meals to the homebound and perform backbreaking labor for tornado victims aren't interested in fame. They give up their t...

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College Students Skip The Beach, Spend Spring Break Helping Tornado Victims

Posted 03.16.2012 | Impact
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Spring break may signal scenes of college coeds cracking Coronas on the beach and splashing around in barely-there bikinis. But for one crew of fr...

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Why Is Coach Beilein So Mad?

AP | Posted 02.26.2012 | Detroit
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Terone Johnson scored a career-high 22 points and Robbie Hummel added 17 to help Purdue upset No. 11 Michigan 75-61 on Saturday ni...

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Which University Won the Intercollegiate Programming Championship?

David Thielen | Posted 04.13.2012 | College
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David Thielen

Each team wrote the A.I. for a computer game. The contest is then the A.I.s from each team fighting each other where one will reign victorious over the others on the field of battle.

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Gutsy Gambles Deliver Win In Pizza Bowl

AP | LARRY LAGE | Posted 02.26.2012 | Sports
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DETROIT — Purdue quarterback Caleb TerBush took the final snap, sprinted to the sideline and handed the football to coach Danny Hope. Perhaps e...

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The National Intercollegiate Programming Championships

David Thielen | Posted 02.08.2012 | College
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David Thielen

This upcoming January will see the first intercollegiate programming code war, with multiple teams competing from most of the top computer science colleges in the country.

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Purdue Releases Student's Name To Adult Film Company

Posted 01.01.2012 | College
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Purdue University has released the name of a 19-year-old student to an adult film company who has been trying to track down users who have downloaded ...

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At Solar Decathlon, College Eco-Stars Reveal True Future of Solar

Brian Keane | Posted 11.30.2011 | College
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Brian Keane

Solar Decathletes are students who, instead of partying at the beach or making money at temporary jobs, decide to help design, engineer and assemble solar-powered homes in their spare time.

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Purdue Student Targeted In Porn Lawsuit

San Jose Mercury News | Posted 09.14.2011 | College
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SOUTH BEND, Ind.--A Purdue University student is asking a judge to block a request that the school release the 19-year-old's name to a California film...

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Purdue Student Dead In Lake

AP | Posted 09.04.2011 | College
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MONTICELLO, Ind. -- Authorities have found the body of a Purdue football player in a northern Indiana lake two days after he was last seen going swimm...

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Reptile Loving Purdue Student Dies On Iguana Recovery Trip In The Cayman Islands

Purdue Exponent: Campus | Student Dies While Pursuing Passion for Reptiles, Volunteering | Posted 08.09.2011 | College
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A 21-year-old Purdue student, who had a life-long passion for reptiles, died on Friday while on a volunteer trip to the Cayman Islands with the Blue I...

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