Category: Research

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College of Ed contributes to Purdue AI & data science via initiative, miniseries

The Purdue University College of Education is developing an initiative to cover all of the artificial intelligence (AI) and data science work already being done by its faculty. Earlier this month the College launched a new webpage to showcase these efforts and provide resources.

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Futurist Peter Leyden to speak at Purdue about AI

Artificial Intelligence, with all of its power and peril, is the topic of this year’s talk in the Purdue Series on Corporate Citizenship and Ethics.

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3 Education grad students’ community engagement poster wins 1st place

Three College of Education students won first place at the 2024 Purdue Engagement and Service-Learning Summit for their poster Empowering Youth as Researchers through Engaged Scholarship.

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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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