Purdue student from Munster on winning corn product innovation team

MUNSTER | Munster High School graduate and Purdue University junior Alexander Parobek was part of a four-member team winning $20,000 for their innovative project at a recent competition sponsored by Indiana’s Soybean Alliance and Corn Marketing Council.

Funds freed for PNC student activities center

An artist's rendering of Purdue University North Central's proposed student services and activities complex shows how the one-story facility would look on campus.

Funds freed for PNC student activities center

Purdue University North Central officials said Wednesday that they will build a new multi-function student services and activities complex on campus. The university plans to break ground on the $34.7 million facility in about a year. Officials estimate it will take a couple years to complete.

Funds freed for PNC student activities center

An artist's rendering of Purdue University North Central's proposed student services and activities complex on campus shows how it would look in 2015.

Funds freed for PNC student activities center

The floor plan for the proposed Purdue University North Central student services and activities complex shows the location of courts and fitness areas in the facility.

Funds freed for PNC student activities center

Purdue University North Central staff look at drawings Wednesday of the university's proposed multipurpose student services and activities complex to be constructed on campus. From left is Susan Bryshell, co-director of PNC Porter County, Cassandra Boehlke, former student and now PNC coordin…

Funds freed for PNC student activities center

Chancellor James Dworkin announces Wednesday that Purdue University North Central will construct a new multipurpose student services and activities complex on campus. "This is a game changer for PNC," said Dworkin.

SLICE OF LIFE: Emphasis on beauty leads to ugly outcomes

If you watch TV, you've probably seen the latest Dove commercial.

PUC students watch Boston bomb coverage

Purdue University Calumet students pause in the student union to watch news coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings.

REGION COLLEGIANS: DeMuth, Donley dominant for red-hot Hoosiers

Indiana University has been on a roll. You could say Dustin DeMuth and Scott Donley have provided a lot of the butter.

PNC students paint papier-mache eggs with seniors as part of service project

Loretta Smith paints a papier-mache Easter egg Saturday at Whispering Pines Health Care Center in Valparaiso. Students in Purdue North Central's Organization Leadership class worked with residents as part of a service learning project.

PNC students paint papier-mache eggs with seniors as part of service project

Students in Purdue North Central's Organization Leadership class work Saturday with residents at Whispering Pines Health Care Center in Valparaiso. The residents painted papier-mache eggs with their families and the students

PUC faces $4 million deficit, will close learning center

Purdue Calumet Chancellor Thomas Keon announced the Academic Learning Center in Merrillville will close to save money. The university is facing a $4 million shortfall.

PUC faces $4 million deficit, will close learning center

Purdue University Calumet Chancellor Thomas Keon said the Academic Learning Center in Merrillville will close to save money. The university is facing a $4 million shortfall.

Purdue is latest victim of Michigan surge

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Trey Burke had 26 points and five rebounds to lead No. 7 Michigan's rally to an 80-75 victory over Purdue on Wednesday night.

Why did Daniels suddenly change Purdue's legal counsel?

After 130 years the new administration at Purdue University has decided to bring in a new private legal counsel replacing a Lafayette law firm!

College Bound sees record number of participants in 2012

Students work in the library at Purdue University Calumet. Thirty-four percent of College Bound students attend Purdue Calumet.

College Bound sees record number of participants in 2012

Hammond-based Purdue University Calumet has the highest number of students who have received College Bound scholarships from the city.

Seminar about America Invents Act set for Jan. 30

WEST LAFAYETTE | Researchers at educational institutions, inventors, entrepreneurs and the general public are invited to a free seminar about disclosing scientific discoveries on Jan. 30

Purdue Calumet Problems in Public Relations presentations

Purdue Calumet Problems in Public Relations class gave presentations to Schepel Buick GMC Cadillac, a client they worked with during the fall semester. The class formed a student organization, Integrated Communications, to fulfill a goal of doing a communication audit for an actual business.