A major new building combining academic, research and retail spaces is coming to Purdue University, including Wang Hall, which will house research laboratories and offices for faculty, staff, and graduate students.

Professor Kulkarni will appear on the February 10th show on WLFI at 7:30pm.

Fahmida Ferdous, currently an ECE PhD student working with Professor Andy Weiner, has been honored by the Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology with the Dr. Rashid Gold Medal 2006 for her achievements during her former graduate study at BUET.

Professor Babak Ziaie and other researchers have invented a technique that uses inexpensive paper to make "microfluidic" devices for rapid medical diagnostics and chemical analysis.

Professor Raghunathan has been chosen to serve as a technical program co-chair for the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) to be held in Chicago the week of April 11th.

Researchers are developing a new class of "plasmonic metamaterials" as potential building blocks for advanced optical technologies, including ultrapowerful microscopes and computers, improved solar cells, and a possible invisibility cloak.

Professor Ziaie, along with Professor Maleki of Purdue's Birck Nanotechnology Center and Dr. Ko of the IU School of Medicine, have created a company dedicated to developing nanotechnology devices for medical diagnostic and therapeutic applications.

Professor Niklas Elmqvist and other researchers have developed a new type of software that enables people to use large visual displays and touch screens interactively over the internet for business and homeland security applications.

The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest.

The turkey contest is organized by HKN before Thanksgiving break, where students choose among three professors to wear the costume. The other professors this year were Dave Meyer and Ilya Pollak. A total of $125.50 was raised and donated to the Lafayette Urban Ministry (LUM).