June 21, 2024
Today’s top 5 from Purdue University
‘Purdue News Now’
Purdue gets ready to say goodbye to an influential leader in the College of Veterinary Medicine and hello to its new urban campus in Indianapolis. Trevor Peters has those stories and more in this week’s “Purdue News Now.”
Plus, check out the five good stories below you may have missed.
Purdue and Accenture develop online smart manufacturing program for employee upskilling
Purdue University is collaborating with industry leader Accenture on an online smart manufacturing education program for organizations looking to enhance employee skill sets. The Smart Manufacturing Academy curriculum is self-paced and structured asynchronously, meaning employees can engage with course materials at different times and from different locations. It is designed to teach foundational knowledge in digital transformation to machine and line operators, technicians, plant managers, engineers, and employees in other manufacturing roles.
Media contact: Derek Schultz, dcschultz@purdue.edu
NextHouse: creating the next generation of factory-built housing
The U.S. housing market is in crisis due to a lack of affordable housing and a shortage of labor and materials to build them. Purdue University has a solution: NextHouse, an initiative to develop the next generation of factory-built housing. Its strategy is to “productize” housing, enabling economies of scale by standardizing the manufacturing and assembly of modular elements.
Media contact: Trevor Peters, peter237@purdue.edu
Purdue University in Indianapolis inauguration
You’re invited to “Paint the Town Gold” with Purdue as we dedicate our new campus in Indianapolis. Special guest speakers, Purdue-themed refreshments and complimentary merchandise from the Purdue in Indianapolis pop-up shop are just a few of the ways we’ll mark this special occasion. Hope to see you there!
Media contact: Derek Schultz, dcschultz@purdue.edu
Purdue’s graduate programs continued their elevation in latest U.S. News & World Report rankings
In the U.S. News & World Report’s 2024-25 Best Graduate School Rankings, 13 programs earned top 10 placements as Purdue continues to elevate its graduate education and research across the board. Many programs improved year over year including in Purdue’s College of Engineering, the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business and areas related to the Purdue Computes initiative.
Media contact: Derek Schultz, dcschultz@purdue.edu
AP Video — Inside the diets of Olympic athletes
Lauren Link, the assistant athletics director for sports nutrition and the director of sports nutrition at Purdue University, explains how professional athletes approach nutrition when preparing for the Olympics. Link says nutrition plays an important role in pushing an athlete’s performance to the highest level — nutrition can be a deciding factor in getting a gold medal or world record. Professional athletes consume significantly more calories, protein, fluids and sodium than the average person.
Media contact: Trevor Peters, peter237@purdue.edu
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About Purdue University
Purdue University is a public research institution demonstrating excellence at scale. Ranked among top 10 public universities and with two colleges in the top four in the United States, Purdue discovers and disseminates knowledge with a quality and at a scale second to none. More than 105,000 students study at Purdue across modalities and locations, including nearly 50,000 in person on the West Lafayette campus. Committed to affordability and accessibility, Purdue’s main campus has frozen tuition 13 years in a row. See how Purdue never stops in the persistent pursuit of the next giant leap — including its first comprehensive urban campus in Indianapolis, the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business, Purdue Computes and the One Health initiative — at https://www.purdue.edu/president/strategic-initiatives.
