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August 2022 Newsletter
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Family Weekend Registration 2022 - COMING SOON!
Family Weekend 2022 will take place October 14-16. Event information can be found on the Family Weekend website. Registration for Family Weekend opened 8/22 for members of the Parents & Families Club, and will open for all families on 8/29.
Parents & Families Club
The Purdue Parents & Families Club — established through a partnership between Purdue Athletics and Purdue Student Life — offers more ways to engage parents, families and students.
This new membership opportunity will allow parents and families access to a variety of unique and exclusive Purdue experiences to help build a deeper connection to the university where their students reside. This new organization will also increase available resources to enhance the campus experience for more than 41,000 students each year.
Members of the Parents & Families Club will have the opportunity to take advantage of priority access to Purdue Athletics tickets and parking by receiving a John Purdue Club membership, exclusive special event invitations, quarterly touchpoints from campus leadership and special discounts through local restaurants and businesses in the Purdue community.
All Purdue parents and families can join for an annual membership fee of $500, which will provide opportunities for Boilermaker students to connect, learn and lead outside the classroom. To view the full list of membership benefits, click here. The annual membership year will run from May 1 to April 30 to mirror the academic and athletic calendars.
To become a member, visit this site. If you have questions, contact the Purdue Parents & Families Club at 765.494.2582 or ppfc@purdueforlife.org.
Purdue to host Weeks of Welcome
Purdue will celebrate the beginning of the fall semester by highlighting the first five weeks of student events and programming. This collaborative effort includes areas within Student Life, the Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging, and Teaching and Learning, as well as the expansive group of more than 900 recognized student organizations.
Known as “Purdue Weeks of Welcome,” the events will introduce students to the vibrant extracurricular experiences generations of Boilermakers have come to enjoy. The culmination of Purdue Weeks of Welcome will be the University’s celebration of Homecoming, scheduled for the weekend of Sept. 23-25. Read more about Weeks of Welcome. Check out highlighted events and programming here.
Relentlessly smiling Boilermaker wins 2022 Tyler Trent Award
Tyler Trent inspired the nation during his courageous battle with bone cancer. In his honor, Purdue University established the Tyler Trent Courage and Resilience Award. This scholarship is awarded to undergraduate students at Purdue’s West Lafayette campus who have encountered serious physical or similarly daunting adversity in their pursuit of higher education. The 2022 winner is Eric Magallanes, a senior in the College of Health and Human Sciences, who kept smiling and helping others even when oral cancer threatened to derail his dreams of becoming a dentist. Read more.
Indiana University, Purdue University announce new vision for Indianapolis campus
Indiana University and Purdue University took the first steps Aug. 12, on a bold new vision for higher education in Indianapolis, designed to increase the number of job-ready graduates in an innovation-led economy, fuel economic growth in the region and the state, and enhance service to the Indianapolis community and beyond.
This new vision, outlined in a Memorandum of Understanding approved Friday by the IU Board of Trustees and the executive committee of Purdue’s Board of Trustees, will transform the 52-year-old IUPUI – a joint venture between the two universities on a campus IU owns and manages – into separate academic organizations in which IU and Purdue will each govern their own programs. It calls for a more energized role for each university and the production of more graduates ready to participate in the modern economy. Read more.
Ascension St. Vincent neighborhood hospital coming to Purdue campus
Ascension St. Vincent and Purdue University are pleased to announce plans to build a neighborhood hospital in the Discovery Park District at Purdue, adjacent to Purdue University’s campus. Ascension St. Vincent has purchased seven acres of land from the university located at the northeast corner of Airport Road and Highway 231. The facility will bring inpatient and emergency care within the city of West Lafayette for the first time. Key features of the project include:
- Eight private inpatient medical beds
- Eight Emergency Department treatment rooms
- CT and other imaging services
- Laboratory services
- Modern architecture
- Convenient parking
- State-of-the-art consumer-focused technology, including telemedicine
This neighborhood hospital is the first development of what will become a larger medical complex at the Purdue University campus that will focus mainly on outpatient care. Read more.
Renovations modernize PMU dining level while celebrating Purdue’s history
The Purdue Memorial Union’s founding was rooted in reverence for Purdue’s past — specifically for the 4,013 Boilermakers who fought and 67 who died during World War I in the years immediately preceding the Union’s 1924 debut.
With those historic ties in mind, it should come as no surprise that planning can become laborious whenever the University announces periodic facelifts for a building that is so integral to Purdue tradition. The Union’s reverential aesthetic is sacred to many Boilermakers who appreciate that its defining features largely remained intact across generations. Read more.
Lundstrom named interim dean for the College of Engineering
Jay Akridge, Purdue University’s provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and diversity, has announced the appointment of Mark Lundstrom as interim dean of the College of Engineering, effective July 1. Lundstrom will step in for Dean Mung Chiang, who has been named the 13th president of Purdue.
Chiang will start his new role as president on Jan. 1. He stepped down as dean of the College of Engineering on June 30 to focus on his continued role as executive vice president for strategic initiatives and on the transition to his new position. Read more.
Purdue Convocations announces the 120th season for 2022-23
Purdue Convocations presents its 120th season with a lineup of innovative projects and performances from around the world, outdoor spectacles, award-winning country, jazz and chamber musicians, a repertory theater residency, thought-provoking lectures, family-friendly engagements and award-winning Broadway musicals. The list includes “The Book of Mormon,” “Legally Blonde – The Musical,” “CATS” and “Jesus Christ Superstar,” along with the Riverdance 25th Anniversary Show. Read more.
SkyWater Technology chooses Discovery Park District at Purdue for $1.8B semiconductor fabrication facility, to create 750 jobs in 5 years
The announcement July 20 by SkyWater Technology that it plans to open a $1.8 billion state-of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing facility in Discovery Park District at Purdue University marks a huge step forward for the American semiconductor industry, Purdue’s thriving innovation district and the university’s continued emergence as one of the principal drivers of the Indiana economy.
SkyWater (NASDAQ:SKYT), which expects to create 750 new direct jobs within five years after it opens, joins the likes of Saab, Rolls-Royce, major facilities and partnerships in hypersonics, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Wabash, MediaTek and others in Discovery Park District, one of the most attractive and innovative environments in the Midwest. Read more.
What’s more permanent than a tattoo? The answer: Purdue pride.
Tattooing — an artistic technique for marking one’s body — has been around for thousands of years. It’s a practice that has become increasingly common, creating personal symbols of status, identity, love, religious beliefs and more. The function of tattoos is to make a statement or share part of oneself with the outside world — what defines you, drives you or maybe even inspires you. See more.
2022 Summer Commencement
Purdue University celebrated almost 1,700 students’ academic accomplishments during two summer commencement ceremonies on Aug. 6.
Eligible to participate in the ceremonies were 1,699 students – 510 undergraduate, 756 master’s, 407 Ph.D. and 26 professional program candidates. Two posthumous degrees were conferred: a Master of Science to Elif Ilkel from the Brian Lamb School of Communication, and a Bachelor of Science to John Zachary Linzey from Purdue Polytechnic Institute.
Purdue alumnus Paul K. Kearns keynoted the morning ceremony. Clint Chapple, Distinguished Professor in the College of Agriculture’s Department of Biochemistry, keynoted at the afternoon ceremony. See the photos.
Dates
August 29, Last Day to Register Without a Late Fee, learn more
September 2, Last Day to Cancel a Course Assignment Without it Appearing on Record
September 5, Labor Day, No Classes
September 19, Last Day to Withdraw a Course With a Grade of W or to Add/Modify a Course With Instructor and Advisor Signature
October 3, Last Day For Grade Correction for Spring Semester 2021-22 and 2022 Summer Session
October 10, Schedule of Classes published for Spring 2023 Term
October 10-11, OCTOBER BREAK
October 19, Second Eight-Week Courses Begin
October 25, Last Day To Withdraw From a Course With a W or WF Grade & Last Day To Add/Modify a Course With Instructor, Advisor, and Department Head Signatures