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Purdue named a ‘New Ivy’ in Forbes ranking A new ranking out this week places Purdue University — again — among the nation’s best in establishing value for students and creating job-ready graduates ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A new ranking out this week places Purdue University — again — among the nation’s best in establishing value for students and creating job-ready graduates for employers. Forbes’ ...
Student Life celebrated the retirement of Barb Frazee, assistant vice provost for Student Life, who dedicated 43 years of service to Purdue University. After a national search, John Eckman was named ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University is recognizing faculty members who have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the most distinct ...
Yiwei Huang has been honored with Purdue University’s Exceptional Early Career Teaching ... fantastic to get another external recognition of one of our own!” noted Dr. Linda Prokopy, head of the ...
Paden Alie, assistant director of sport programs at RecWell, led the relaunch of the Unified Sports program at Purdue when he joined the university in 2022. Alie initially became involved in Unified ...
Voichita M. Dadarlat, Ph.D., Assistant Vice President for Research, Regulatory Affairs, Office of Research, Purdue University West Lafayette (2025). Christina Egbert, Senior Business Manager, ...
Purdue University's mascot, the Boilermakers, originated from a newspaper taunt in 1891 after a football victory against Wabash College. The nickname "Boilermakers" was intended to be an insult ...
According to Purdue's website, the university adopted the Boilermakers nickname in 1891: "Under accusations of recruiting athletes from boiler shops, the 'Boilermakers' name was adopted for Purdue ...
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Once the Purdue University social media team caught wind of the skit, it decided to offer some help to Fallon and his team. "No worries ... we've been explaining it for over a century," the post ...
“to label Linda Williams merely as the pre-eminent scholar of sexuality in cinema is to grossly understate her impact,” Steven Mintz, a professor of history at the University of Texas at ...