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industries. Students can also transfer coursework to complete a Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Applied Science or Bachelor of Business Administrator (Management) degree.
Purdue Opens Active
Learning Center
The Thomas S. and Harvey D. Wil- meth Active Learning Center (WALC), which will serve as a new centerpiece in the heart of Purdue University’s campus and as a daily destination for thousands of students, is up and running on the university’s West Lafayette, IN, campus as the academic year begins.
The center, under construction for more than two years, offers students a unique learning experience through ac- tive learning and integrated study rooms and library spaces. The WALC combines library and classroom space.
The facility will have 27 active learning classrooms, each designed to meet a variety of scenarios. Sight lines are important in the rooms so that the
instructor can be anywhere in the room and still be visible and accessible.
The center houses the Library of En- gineering and Science, which combines six formerly separate libraries: Chemis- try; Engineering; Life Sciences; Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; Pharmacy, Nursing and Health Sciences; and Physics, their collections, new tech- nology and active learning classrooms.
New Academic
Department at
Tulane University
The Tulane University School of Sci- ence and Engineering in New Orleans, LA, has created a first-of-its-kind aca- demic department dedicated to research and education in river-coastal issues.
The department will be unique in that it will focus on the world’s river, deltaic and coastal systems using a combined science and engineering approach. It will recognize the linkages among these set- tings — such as the effects of engineered structures like river dams — on the health of deltas and the adjacent coast.
Undergraduate and graduate degree programs will also be developed that reflect this holistic approach to un- derstanding these river and coastal
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