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For the fourth straight year, Purdue is sending a group of students to the Marine Advanced Technology Education Center International R-O-V Competition.

The event challenges teams to design and build an underwater robot to complete specific tasks.

This year’s mission revolves around deploying and repairing equipment for regional ocean observing systems.

Team captain Michael Hayashi believes the Purdue ROV will complete the tasks in the shortest amount of time.

Three current or former Purdue students are accused of changing their grades after hacking into professors’ computers.

Investigators say the scheme involved stealing keyboards, installing keylogger devices and using the acquired passwords to gain access to class records.

Purdue Police Chief John Cox says the investigation has resulted in arrests and formal charges because his department works well with the university’s internal audit group and ITaP security unit.

He says the alleged crimes took place from early 2010 to late last year.

Two Colombian Universities are partnering with Purdue to give students a multicultural learning experience.

This week, students from the Technological University of Pereira and the University of Caldas are visiting West Lafayette.

This comes after a group of Purdue undergraduates went to Colombia to study farm production in the contexts of food security and climate change.

Now, students have formed groups to describe their findings in final presentations in both English and Spanish.

Almost Home Humane Society will be receiving more money from Lafayette this year and next.

The city’s Board of Works has approved a contract which provides $150,000 for animal sheltering services in 2013 and 2014.

That represents an increase of six-point-four-percent from the current agreement.

In 2012, Almost Home took in 2,081 animals.

Of those, 1,515 were either placed with adoptive owners, returned to original owners or transferred to other shelters.

Five-hundred-fifty-six animals were euthanized.

Purdue President Mitch Daniels talks about the FY14 proposed general fund budget, which includes a freeze on tuition.

He credits the increase in funding from the General Assembly on Purdue doing well on the performance-based metrics the state uses to partly fund higher education. The state also is giving Purdue $50 million to build the Active Learning Center, which is designed to make classes more collaborative, instead of strictly lectures.

Daniels also talks about the academic profile of the incoming class for fall of 2013.

Purdue’s plan to grow its summer school enrollment seems to be working. A month before the eight-week session begins, more students have signed up for key courses than did last year.

Provost Tim Sands says offering classes that are in high-demand during the fall and spring was the logical first step.

“And then we’ll build from there,” he says. “We’re looking at grouping courses, looking at the progression of our students and studying the combination of courses students like to take together.”