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- President Córdova announces plans for a student success corridor running east from Martin Jischke Drive to the center of campus along Third Street. It will include:
- A Center for Student Excellence and Leadership. The 85,000-square-foot center will include space for student retention and success programs, student organizations, and student meeting, work, study and counseling areas. The $30 million building will be funded with $18 million in gifts and $12 million in Big Ten Network revenue.
- Ralph E. and Bettye J. Holder Bailey Hall for Purdue Musical Organizations. The new $8 million building will be paid for with private donations.
- A classroom building planned at the location of the former north power plant, near the Purdue Bell Tower.
- The new Student Fitness and Wellness Center, begun in 2010 in response to student requests. It will be funded with student fees.
- Financial Times ranks Purdue's Krannert School of Management's MBA program in the top 10 for public universities.
- Purdue evGrand Prix, a race for electric go-carts, debuts. It is one of the outgrowths of Purdue's participation in the Indiana Advanced Electric Vehicle Training and Education Consortium, funded by a $6.1 million federal grant to develop degree and training programs for electric vehicles. In 2011, the race goes international at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
- Purdue's Technical Assistance Program expands, adding the Regional Health Information Technology Extension Center thanks to $14.8 million in federal funds. The center is assisting 2,200 Indiana health care providers in converting to electronic records.
- Purdue receives $25 million to create the first National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center in Indiana. The new Science of Information Center will extend classical information theory, which paved the way for the Internet, DVDs and iPods of today, to meet the new challenges posed by the rapid advances in networking, biology and quantum information processing.
- Purdue North Central adds electrical engineering to its bachelor's degree offerings. Since November 2007, other majors added include mechanical engineering, early childhood education, secondary education, construction engineering and management technology, human resources, and social work.
- The Hall for Discovery and Learning Research is dedicated. It will focus on the science of learning, the design of innovative educational programs and the development of interactive learning technologies. The center oversees more than 30 projects involving 180 faculty members from every Purdue college and school.
- The University increases funding for the recently created Student Organization Grant Allocation (SOGA) board to $150,000 for the 2011 fiscal year. The SOGA panel of student leaders disseminate the money to student groups to fund events, activities, travel and services that benefit the student body.
- The new College of Health and Human Sciences is formed, combining nine departments from three colleges without adding to the total number of colleges. The goal is to improve interdisciplinary collaborations, innovation and learning while improving people's quality of life and health.
- Purdue trustees approve planning and financing for the Multidisciplinary Cancer Research addition to Bindley Bioscience Center. Funded by a National Institutes of Health grant, the new space will support research focused on cancer and life science research. Completion is expected by winter 2013.
- Purdue receives reaccreditation for 10 years from the Higher Learning Commission. Reviewers had high praise for Purdue and its strategic plan, citing it as a model for university leadership.
- President Córdova meets in Beijing with the leaders of two Chinese universities -- Tsinghua University and China Agricultural University -- to enhance collaborative research and academic programs and expand student and faculty exchanges as well as study-abroad opportunities.
- Purdue trustees approve University Residences' plans to add a wing to First Street Towers and build a new residence hall on Vawter Field. That additional space would replace the 1,000 beds lost since 2001 through renovations in Cary Quadrangle and Windsor Halls, along with the transfer of Young Graduate House to academic and office use. The $65.5 million for the projects will be funded with fees paid by residents.
- Arden Bement Jr., the outgoing director of the National Science Foundation, is chosen as the inaugural director of Purdue's Global Policy Research Institute. He is the former head of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the former head of the School of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue.
- Research awards totals $438 million system-wide for the 2010 fiscal year, up from $342 million the year before, a 28 percent increase.
- Purdue has created 10 Small Business Development Centers around the state, some in partnership with Ivy Tech and Indiana University.
- Service-learning programs, which help Purdue students address community needs, expand to serve 3,327 for 2009-10, up from 1,299.
- Purdue Cooperative Extension Service engages more than 1.4 million Hoosiers in Extension programs and more than 3 million people visited its Purdue Extension website for assistance.
- Online distance-learning enrollments grow nearly 75 percent since 2005.
- The University increases funding for Student Organization Grant Allocation Board to $150,000. SOGA student leaders will disseminate the money to student groups to fund events, activities, travel and services that benefit the entire student body.
- As its first step toward creating the Health and Human Sciences Quadrangle, the Board of Trustees approves financing for the Health and Human Sciences Research Facility and Drug Discovery Building.
- The $54 million HHS facility will house the Lyles-Porter Hall of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences; the Indiana University School of Medicine -- Lafayette; and clinical facilities. It will also provide a parking garage for 850 vehicles. Completion is expected in summer 2013.
- The $25 million Drug Discovery Building will open in 2013, replacing some of the aging existing lab space on campus and allowing for the strict environmental control needed to develop new drugs.
- President Córdova is one of six university presidents invited to join Vice President Joe Biden at the White House to discuss key research taking place at universities as a result of funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy.
- Purdue ranks fourth in Wall Street Journal's job recruiter rankings.
- Rossmann, Purdue's third supercomputer, is installed in record time.
- Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the Purdue alumnus who safely landed a commercial aircraft in the Hudson River on Jan. 15, 2009, addresses the Purdue President's Council. Alumnus Neil Armstrong, the first person on the moon, presents him with the University's Neil A. Armstrong Medal of Excellence.
- Purdue dedicates a new home for Purdue Crew, a $1.7 million boathouse on the Wabash River.
- Purdue Research Park dedicates a 12,000-square-foot expansion of its technology center in Northwest Indiana.
- Purdue's landscape architecture program is rated third in country, according to a survey by DesignIntelligence magazine.
- Purdue North Central earns the Carnegie Foundation's Community Engagement Classification. Just 311 colleges and universities have ever earned this distinction, which recognizes a school's documented mission, culture, leadership, resources and support of community engagement.