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Byline: Frederick Biro Lead This week, First Person features the joys of walking down memory lane through music. The other morning, my significant other caught me stacking my album collection [...]

Byline: ILONA BIRO; Special to The Globe and Mail BAUBAX 2.0 TRAVEL JACKET What do you do when your travel jacket is the most popular travel item ever funded on [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro PNW raised $1,058,979 in cash and in-kind donations during the annual Day of Giving on April 25. This is the university's fourth year participating in the event. [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro Construction for the Bioscience Innovation Building on the Hammond campus will begin on July 2, and a commemorative groundbreaking ceremony is currently slated for Aug. 23. The [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro In commemoration of the Couple and Family Therapy Center's new location on Indianapolis Blvd., attendees and U.S. Rep. Pete Visclosky cut the red ribbon together on April [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro The achievements and successes of leaders were the major themes of the Student Recognition Banquet on April 13 at the Great Hall in Westville, where students were [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro PNW will be issuing a three-tier tuition structure and banded tuition starting in Fall 2018 in response to low retention and the budget deficit. Retention rate and [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro Campus police will host a Response to Active Shooter Training to test PNW's emergency preparedness with local law enforcement agencies on March 26-28 at the Hammond campus. [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro Gabis Arboretum at Purdue Northwest will offer free admission to all PNW students, faculty and staff until May 31. Kris Falzone, vice chancellor for Marketing & Communications, [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro PNW campus police will be facilitating a mock emergency tornado drill at the Westville campus on March 21 from 1 p.m. to 2: 45 p.m. and on [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro The sprinkler system that malfunctioned in Griffin Hall and caused flooding on March 3 has been repaired and there is no damage to students rooms, according to [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro Lance Trusty was a history professor at Purdue University Calumet who cared for his students and the region's legacy and history. 'He was one of the main [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro Budget reductions have been made to university divisions and departments in order to offset the $3 million budget deficit, according to Stephen Turner, vice chancellor for Finance [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro The 28th regional Science Olympiad tournament will take place at the Hammond campus on Feb. 10. The competition promotes hands-on education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro The Westville campus is closed on Tuesday, Jan. 16, due to a boil-water order from the town of Westville, according to a press release from Marketing & [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro Crime rates have not changed at PNW since unification, but there have been changes made to ensure the safety of students, according to campus police. Brian Miller, [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro The retention rate for freshmen to sophomores has increased since unification, but total fall enrollment has decreased by 4.4 percent. No information is available for Spring 2018 [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro With a year and a half since the unification of the PNC and PUC, several issues remain unresolved including the university's budget deficit, tenure of faculty and [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro Taltree Arboretum and Gardens' board of directors and its founders Damien and Rita Gabis, will give PNW ownership of the 300-acre arboretum, located in Valparaiso, early this [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro PNW has been ranked among the best regional universities in the U.S. News & World Report best colleges rankings on Sept. 26. The College of Engineering has [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro Childhood Arrivals Information Clinic supported by the Social Work and Unidos Club informed attendees about the importance of the program on the Hammond campus on Sept. 20 [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro PNW raised its in-state and out-of-state tuition by 1.4 percent for the 2017-18 school year. Stephen Turner, vice chancellor of Finance and Administration, says the increase was [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro PNW will change its instructor evaluation system from Idea, which is partnered with Campus Labs, to Explorance Blue at the start of the summer semester. In Fall [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro Since the beginning of the Fall semester 2016, the PNW Faculty Senate Committee has been planning to create an experiential learning program for both campuses. A decision [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro The Social Justice Club is asking for signatures to replace Starbucks with Metropolis Coffee Co. with concerns that Starbucks is not a fair trade company. Kirsten Markusic, [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro In celebration of Black History Month, former Black Panther and artist Charlotte O'Neal visited PNW on Feb. 28 in Alumni Hall to speak about her life as [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro Tara Sullivan has been named PNW's new executive director of Academic Success and Transition, a position that allows her to do the thing that she loves most: [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro Printing concerns have been temporarily fixed this semester by implementing unlimited and free printing. As of Fall 2017, PaperCut will go back to charging for additional printing. [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro PNW's intercampus shuttle service launched on Nov. 28. With the use of a university ID, students, faculty and staff can access free transportation between the Hammond and [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro The Faculty Senate passed a new student grade appeal policy, reshaping the grade appeal policies from the former Purdue Calumet and Purdue North Central, on Dec. 9. [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro The McDonald's Peppermint for PNW campaign gave $1 for every purchase of a hot or iced peppermint beverage on Nov. 7 to PNW for the Future Leaders [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro Thomas Keon, PNW chancellor, received the NIPSCO Luminary Award for Education from NIPSCO President Violet Sistovaris for his expansion of PNW's STEM education program. STEM consists of [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro Katie Stompor has been named interim director of Strategic Communications and Public Relations in the Office of Marketing & Communications on July 1. Stompor is excited to [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro PNW received a $482,926 grant for a three-year project to develop course curriculum modules that will educate high school students about cyber security. The course curriculum modules [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro SGA president-elect De'Joie Simmons, MBA student, was removed from office due to a situation on May 13, involving alcohol in the dorms and the abuse of his [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro The Dean of Students Office has selected two student advocates to serve students at both the Hammond and Westville campus. Jennie Pruitt serves students at the Westville [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro The results of a mass shooting at PNW would not be as fatal as the one in Sutherland, Texas because of extensive police preparation and training, campus [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro PNW recognized Veterans Day through a week of celebration on the Westville and Hammond campus. On Nov. 6 at the Hammond campus, flags were raised and Tony [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro Two students want to create a university guideline that will commemorate students after their death. Eric Taylor, junior triple major and the chief financial officer of SGA, [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro The Student Government Association wants the university to require all incoming freshmen to watch a safety video on what to do if a mass shooting occurs. SGA [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro As sexual assault victims have become more vocal across the United States, the PNW university police stress the importance of reporting sexual assault. Brian Miller, director of [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro A myPNW app is planning to be released for students, faculty and staff in Fall 2018. Timothy Winders, vice chancellor of Information Services, said the app will [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro The SGA announced business administration graduate student De'Joie Simmons, and sophomore communication student, Daquan Williams, as its new president and vice president for the 2017-18 school year [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro Enrollment on both campuses decreased by 4.4 percent in general fund credits for Fall 2017. Administrators are currently looking for ways to increase enrollment. PNW has 1,125 [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro Out-of-state tuition rates will be lowered to 1.5 times the in-state tuition rate for non-resident students, effective immediately in fall 2018 to solve the $3 million budget [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro PNW replaced US Coachways with Chicagoland Transportation as the new bus vendor for the inter-campus shuttle system due to concerns about US Coachways from students, faculty and [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro As sexual assault victims have become more vocal across the United States, the PNW university police stress the importance of reporting sexual assault. Brian Miller, director of [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro A myPNW app is planning to be released for students, faculty and staff in Fall 2018. Timothy Winders, vice chancellor of Information Services, said the app will [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro The Student Government Association wants the university to require all incoming freshmen to watch a safety video on what to do if a mass shooting occurs. SGA [...]

Byline: Amanda Biro Two students want to create a university guideline that will commemorate students after their death. Eric Taylor, junior triple major and the chief financial officer of SGA, [...]