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The Big Ten Conference announced today that it has approved plans for a fall 2020 football season consisting of a 10-game conference-only schedule set to start the week of Sept. 5, per a Wednesday morning release.
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Provost Jay Akridge and other Purdue administrators talked on a wide range of topics from the discrepancies in reporting test results to the differences between isolation and quarantine during the weekly provost conversation on Tuesday. Read a few of the highlights here:
Purdue is working on a new way to get Boilermakers into Ross-Ade Stadium in the fall: movies on the new video screen.
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A string of burglaries at Purdue Village storage units has led to an investigation by Purdue police.
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The Purdue Farmers Market has been canceled for 2020, following Protect Purdue event guidelines, according to a press release posted today.
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Officials in the Tippecanoe County Health Department told The Exponent they were no longer allowed to comment on the case counts at Purdue, days after both explained they had noticed a discrepancy in the number of positive test results between Purdue Athletics' reporting and information the …
The week after Purdue Athletics and the Tippecanoe County Health Department conferred to align numbers of positive cases of the coronavirus in the campus community, the athletics department announced it is monitoring eight active cases as of Friday, having counted 35 total positive cases sin…
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Purdue alumnus Herman Cain died earlier this week, announced Thursday on his social media accounts and website, after being hospitalized with COVID-19.
In Case You Missed It
As public parks and outdoor spaces empty out or close completely in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, one public space has been running with little change: the golf course.
Minor League Baseball announced Tuesday that all players will continue to receive a $400 weekly allowance through May 31 or the minor league opening day, whichever comes first. The decision extended a statement made on March 19, which paid players $400 weekly through April 8.
The Big Ten Conference announced it will extend the moratorium on spring sports through the beginning of May.
Officials from INDYCAR and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway announced today that the Indianapolis 500 has been postponed to August 23 due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The Catch-Up
57 Purdue athletes were announced as academic All-Big Ten athletes Wednesday afternoon.
Matthew McClintock made history Sunday, as he broke the all-time Big Ten Championships 8,000-meter record en route to becoming Purdue’s first Big Ten champion in 72 years. He helped the men’s side finish seventh. Hope Schmelzle finished fifth in the women’s race, shattering the 6,000-meter s…
Cold temperatures and 20 mile per hour winds plagued the cross country team in Iowa City, Iowa, for the Big Ten Cross Country Championships.
As Purdue’s No. 1 harrier prepares for his second NCAA Cross Country Championship race tomorrow, he’s aiming to become the program’s first All-American in over 25 years.
Purdue will host the 2013 Big Ten Cross Country meet Sunday at the Boilermaker Cross Country Course located next to the Schwartz Tennis Center and Boilermaker Soccer Complex.
Purdue's Matthew McClintock was honored this week by the Big Ten after his second place finish at the Indiana Intercollegiates in Bloomington, Ind.
