The 2023-24 U.S. News & World Report national graduate school rankings, released Tuesday (April 25), put Purdue’s College of Engineering at No. 4 out of 220 for the third consecutive year, with the nation’s top five as MIT; Stanford; the University of California, Berkeley; Purdue; and Georgia Institute of Technology. Other top-ranked programs at Purdue include Agricultural and Biological Engineering ranked No. 1 for the third straight year, and Analytical Chemistry, which has produced multiple Nobel laureates and maintains its longstanding No. 1 ranking.
Testing new designs for jet engine turbines is no easy task. Wind tunnels are large, complicated, and expensive, and building functional prototypes takes a long time. But Purdue University researchers now have an alternative: a water table that simulates supersonic flow, enabling them to quickly test and iterate their designs.
INFORMS, the largest association for the decision and data sciences, has awarded its 2023 UPS George D. Smith Prize to the Business Analytics and Information Management programs at Purdue’s Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business. The award, which is open to programs from all academic disciplines, recognizes excellence in preparing students to become practitioners of operations research and analytics.
To mark the 10th Purdue Day of Giving, several campus celebrations will take place Wednesday (April 26). Beginning at 12:15 p.m., cheer on student organizations and university celebrities as they participate in the Purdue Day of Giving Relay Run. President Mung Chiang will run the last section of the race at 4 p.m., and the campus community is invited to join Chiang for the 1.23-mile leg. The race will end at Memorial Mall and kick off the student celebration. Watch this year’s video
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The Campus Planning, Architecture and Sustainability Department is teaming up with the Grounds Department, Purdue Arboretum and College of Veterinary Medicine for an Arbor Day tree planting on Friday (April 28). Volunteers will help plant more than 140 native trees at the new David and Bonnie Brunner Purdue Veterinary Medical Hospital Complex. Registration is due today (April 25).
Purdue President Mung Chiang continued his yearlong listening sessions with student, faculty and staff organizations on Friday (April 21), visiting three cultural centers on campus: Asian American and Asian Resource and Cultural Center; Latino Cultural Center; and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Center. He toured the centers and learned about them via open discussions with undergraduate and graduate students.
I cannot say enough good things about the College of Education's IT team. All members of the team are incredibly responsive, patient and extremely committed to providing exceptional IT assistance to staff members. Special shoutout to Bob Evans and Ted Fondak, who always take the time to answer even the smallest/simplest technology questions and drop everything to assist with an issue when needed. Our jobs in the College of Education would not be possible without them, and we are all incredibly thankful for the work they do. – Rachel Swank (College of Education Administration)
