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Renovations, foliage help beautify campus

Kurt Esposito/ Summer Editor

PEACEFUL SURROUNDINGS: The areas surrounding the Bell Tower and Sinninger Pond. The site was reconfigured to make the tower the centerpiece of the area and add more greenery.

By Kurt Esposito
Summer Editor

With the exception of a few plants, renovations to the sites surrounding the Bell Tower and the Sinninger pond are complete.

"It looks nice. It makes the campus look more beautiful, for sure," said Shalisa Sanderlin, a junior in the Schools of Engineering.

John Collier, landscape architect, said the changes were made to better accommodate pedestrians and make the Bell Tower the centerpiece of the site.

New walkways, designed to pass through the Bell Tower so that students would no longer have to walk through a beaten dirt path to get to the tower, were constructed as were over 200 bench seats in nine different row of benches spread throughout the site.

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Dean candidate addresses lack of leadership, needs of faculty

The Schools of Engineering need to provide better facilities and more comfortable working climate for its faculty, said Linda Katehi, the fourth finalist for the dean of the Schools of Engineering.

"I can’t see the University leading its peers without state of the art facilities," she said.

She said state of the art facilities are needed for the faculty to further their research and teaching.

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Nuclear Engineering program grows, ranks seventh in nation

An increase in the number of incoming freshman nuclear engineering students could reflect a renewed interest in the pursuit of nuclear engineering careers.

This year, Purdue will welcome a freshman class of 22 nuclear engineering students — an increase of 22 from last year. Arden Bement Jr., head of the department of nuclear engineering, said the increase is due to renewed concerns in energy production and to a growing interest in global warming concerns, as nuclear power generation is an emission-free energy source.

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