PCC Weekly Email - Week of Jul 29

WEEK OF JULY 29, 2024

August PCC Meeting
Mark your calendar for the next Purdue Communicators Council meeting. This meeting will be held on Microsoft Teams.

Date: August 27
Time: 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Meeting Link: Microsoft Teams Meeting

Purdue in the News
Indianapolis Business Journal: Purdue gives students leg up in chip-making through summer program
Associated Press: Nebraska’s EV conundrum: Charging options can get you places, but future will require growth
CNN: NASA’s Perseverance rover may have just found what it was looking for on Mars
Reuters: Fed likely to hold rates steady one last time as inflation fight finale unfolds

Purdue Research Series | A Look Into Sports Engineering and Its Impact on the Olympic Games With Jan-Anders Mansson
In this episode of “This Is Purdue,” we’re talking to Jan-Anders Mansson, executive director of the Ray Ewry Sports Engineering Center and Distinguished Professor of Materials and Chemical Engineering at Purdue.

Sports engineering affects everyone, from those dedicated to getting their daily steps to the most decorated Olympic athletes. The Purdue Research Series returns to “This Is Purdue” for a second season to explore how Purdue provides practical solutions to the world’s toughest challenges. In this first episode of the research series, you will:

Discover how Mansson’s work at Purdue’s Ray Ewry Sports Engineering Center impacts the Olympic Games, the International Cycling Federation, World Aquatics and more.
Learn the three pillars of the Ray Ewry Sports Engineering Center: maximize excitement, ensure safety and establish integrity.
Hear about new opportunities for sports engineering at Purdue University in Indianapolis — the city known as the amateur sports capital of the world.
Explore how sports engineering serves as a test bed for cutting-edge technologies and the dynamic intersection of fashion and apparel, electronics, and sports.
Dive into Purdue’s contributions to the Olympics, including sustainability in 2024 and beyond, the rise of the new virtual cycling event, and the balance between innovation and athlete safety.

The research done at Purdue University continues to change the world of sports, and Mansson and his team are looking forward to unlocking the future of sports engineering within the Ray Ewry Sports Engineering Center.

Experience Summer at Purdue
Those long summer days on Purdue’s campus are unforgettable. Share this new time-lapse video on your channels for some campus nostalgia!

NEW Purdue Campus Connect
At Purdue University, togetherness is everything. Our new shuttle service will seamlessly connect West Lafayette and Purdue in Indianapolis, bringing our community closer together.

Learn more about Purdue Campus Connect here.

Helping virtual cycling belong on the global stage
Virtual cycling is on its way to becoming an Olympic medal sport, and a group of Boilermakers is helping it reach that eminent status. Meet the Purdue researchers who are using their engineering and cybersecurity expertise to create a level playing field for all competitors.

Avoid the comma splice
Don’t use a comma to join two independent clauses without a conjunction. An independent clause can function as a standalone sentence because it has its own subject and verb.

To fix a comma splice, you can:

Replace the comma with a semicolon to show that the two parts of the sentence are closely related,
Replace the comma with a period to create two separate sentences.
Add a coordinating or subordinating conjunction (e.g., “and,” “although”) to indicate the relationship between the clauses or to emphasize one of them.

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