WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University police are looking for a man involved in an attempted robbery that occurred Wednesday (June 24) in a gravel parking lot north of the Marsteller Street Parking Garage. A woman was in the parking lot at about 5:00p when she was approached by a man who motioned that he wanted [...] Read the full story

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Two students from Indiana have been selected as recipients of the Wade Steffey Memorial Scholarship. Trent Huckstep of Carmel and Kelli Chupp of Osceola are set to enter Purdue University in the fall. The scholarship provides $2,000 for each of the students for the 2009-10 academic year. The Wade Steffey Memorial Fund [...] Read the full story

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Instrumentalists throughout Greater Lafayette are welcome to participate in Purdue’s Summer Band, which is led by Jay Gephart, director of Purdue Bands. The band, which will play a program of light classics and Broadway at 7 p.m. July 16 at Slayter Center of Performing Arts, meets twice a week for a month [...] Read the full story

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Two Purdue University alumni - space shuttle commander Mark Polansky and mission specialist David Wolf - will team up with four other crew members for a June 13 NASA expedition to the international space station. The shuttle Endeavour will deliver the final components of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kibo laboratory and [...] Read the full story

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Digital media, including Google Earth, digital storytelling and blogs is the theme for this year’s James F. Ackerman Colloquium on Technology and Citizenship Education at Purdue University. Two dozen scholars will attend the conference, Citizenship Education 2.0: Digital Media in a Networked World, on June 18-20. The conference is sponsored by the [...] Read the full story