A Buck Creek man has been charged with eight counts that include rape and kidnapping as police continue to hunt for him after he allegedly kidnapped and assaulted a woman whose car became disabled Saturday night on County Road 900 East.

Last year, Purdue welcomed the largest class in school history, which was roughly 8,300 students.

A former Purdue professor is appealing the decision of a federal judge to allow a former student to proceed unnamed in a lawsuit against him.

Purdue’s Black Cultural Center officials say they’re pulling out all the stops on the center’s 50th anniversary celebration this weekend.

Condoleezza Rice, the 66th U.S. secretary of state, will speak Oct. 9 at Purdue.

Although some younger students may not be taking Purdue President Mitch Daniels’s advice to find “summer jobs detasseling corn or baling hay,” students in Indiana Future Farmers of America are practicing their agricultural skills over the summer.

Purdue police and fire officials responded to a call around 1:40 p.m. of a female worker hurt by plywood Tuesday afternoon on the fifth floor of the renovation and addition to the Agricultural and Biological Engineering building.