Purdue University will hold a Day of Healing Friday (Jan. 31) in the wake of the Jan. 21 shooting death of student Andrew F. Boldt.

Please see the information from Sara Carvell concerning travel to Andrew Boldt’s visitation and funeral next Tuesday. As these arrangements are being made by the Office of the Dean of Students. Please note that the deadline to register for travel is Monday, 5pm.

Arrangements are set for Tuesday, Jan. 28 at St. Frances Cabrini Church in Boldt’s hometown of West Bend, Wis. Visitation will be from 3 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. CT. A funeral mass will be held at 7 p.m.

The majority of the Electrical Engineering Building will reopen for standard operating hours beginning at noon Wednesday (Jan.
22).

Faculty, staff and students may return to any offices, labs or classrooms on the facility's main floor and above.

Words cannot describe the shock and deep sadness that we all feel at the tragic loss that we experienced yesterday. Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with Andrew Boldt and his parents. As we come together to grieve and begin the healing process, the university will make available many resources, and you will be hearing more about them in the coming days. In the meantime, I have been informed by Purdue police that they expect that the EE building will remain closed until about 6pm today (Wednesday 1/22/2014). Therefore, I am asking ECE faculty/staff/students who have their main business in the EE building to stay away today. (ECE faculty: Please advise your graduate students who have EE offices appropriately.)

Please direct any questions that you might have via email to me.

Thanks,
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Venkataramanan Balakrishnan
Michael and Katherine Birck Head
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering