Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn, the tandem credited with founding the Internet in the early 1970s, will join Purdue University President Mung Chiang for a Presidential Lecture Series event in September, coinciding with the 60th anniversary celebration of Purdue’s historic launch of the nation’s first academic computer science department.
Purdue University engineers and entomologists are making some sweet discoveries about how honeybees build and structure their honeycombs, which could lead to new fabrication techniques taken from the buzzing builders. Nikhilesh Chawla, the Ransburg Professor of Materials Engineering at Purdue, is one of the first to utilize four-dimensional (4D) imaging to delve further into the complexities of the honeycomb.
Structural biologist Richard J. Kuhn, the Trent and Judith Anderson Distinguished Professor in Science and Krenicki Family Director of the Purdue Institute of Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Disease, has been named as Purdue's Morrill Award winner for 2023. The Morrill Award is the highest honor that Purdue confers on a member of its faculty.
Today: Special issue to highlight best of Purdue teaching
Purdue's faculty and lecturers encourage students to achieve their greatest potential, shaping the next generation of Boilermaker leaders and innovators one small step at a time. Purdue recently surprised nine educators with Purdue's top teaching awards. A Purdue Today special issue coming today (May 1) will feature these teachers' stories.
The Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue will host a fireside chat at 2 p.m. May 11 in the Krach Leadership Center. The program will explore the role critical and emerging technologies must play in securing freedom. It will feature Purdue President Mung Chiang and Keith Krach (IE’79, HDR IE’18), chairman and co-founder of the Krach Institute and former U.S. under secretary of state.
As one of 11 new faculty hires in public health at Purdue, Paul Robbins believes most inequality in health and education is preventable. An assistant professor in the Department of Human Development and Health Sciences, Robbins’ research focuses on shaping positive developmental outcomes, particularly among Black youth.
