Purdue University Lets Students Twitter and Facebook In Class

Purdue University in Indiana has launched an application called Hotseat that records what students Tweet, Facebook or text message in class, aggregating that content on a lecture screen for everyone in class to see. Students can engage with each other and their instructor by...

Too Much Government? Affirmative Action Bake Sale at Purdue

Students belonging to the Purdue University chapter of the Conservative Coalition for American Values held an unusual type of bake sale on February 25, 2009.  In an attempt to illustrate how universities use...

Ionic Wind Cools Chips

"Researchers at Purdue University have demonstrated an ionic wind engine that promises to reduce the heat generated by semiconductors at a substantially faster rate than is possible with traditional cooling technologies. The experimental cooling device consists of an anode, a...

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