Category: Centers

INCEC 2024 Recipients standing and smiling for a photo. In their hands are plaques and certificates.

Begeske named INCEC 2024 Outstanding Professor of the Year

The Indiana Council for Exceptional Children (INCEC) selected Dr. Jasmine Begeske to be its 2024 Outstanding Professor of the Year.

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Deborah George, Laurel Aronian & Rita Chandra

Rural Teen Writing Contest 2024: Representing diverse genres, identities thru rural stories

Another year goes down in history for the Literacy In Place Rural Teen Writing Contest, as Dr. Chea Parton continues to give voices to diverse rural perspectives with this year’s theme of Eat, Dance, and Be Rural.

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A colorful barn in Minecraft surrounded by green fields.

Watson, Bowman collaborate with ME on solid mechanics curriculum using Minecraft

Bill Watson and doctoral student Alexander Bowman helped a Mechanical Engineering team use the video game Minecraft to create a pedagogy for teaching solid mechanics to undergraduates.

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Rural Ed Summit: Helping rural populations deal with pressing education issues

On April 12, 2024, the Purdue Center for Rural Research, Education and Outreach will hold its annual Rural Education Summit at Made@Plainfield near Indianapolis.

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15 College of Education faculty collaborate on $1.5M Lilly Endowment science of reading grant

Purdue’s interdisciplinary approach is overseen by Jenna Rickus, vice provost for teaching and learning, and the grant is co-led by Christy Wessel Powell, associate professor of literacy education and the director of the Center for Literacy and Language Education and Research, and Catherine (Cammie) McBride, professor of human development and family science and HHS associate dean for research.

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9th annual Indiana STEM Education Conference equips teachers

The ninth annual Indiana STEM Education Conference, “Advancing STEM with Students”, took place on Thursday, January 11 at Purdue University.

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