With its ongoing commitment to the vision of higher education at the highest proven value, faculty and staff compensation increases, and strategic investments, Purdue University's Board of Trustees today adopted the university’s operating budget for the 2024 fiscal year with revenues modestly exceeding expenditures. Tuition will remain frozen at Purdue’s West Lafayette campus for the 11th and 12th consecutive years, keeping base undergraduate tuition and fees for Indiana residents under $10,000 per year. By 2024-25, 10 graduating classes will have never experienced a tuition increase during their time at Purdue. Meanwhile, the incoming freshman class is from Purdue’s largest applicant pool and with the lowest acceptance
rate in modern history of the university.
Purdue’s Greg Shaver doesn’t believe there should be a trade-off between protecting the air we breathe and achieving better engine efficiency of large vehicles on the road. Shaver, a mechanical engineering professor and director of Purdue’s Ray W. Herrick Laboratories, is part of a national effort researching the reduction of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide and microscopic particle emissions and improving the efficiency of diesel engines on the road today.
AI-driven technology developed at Purdue University could use a smartphone camera to detect and diagnose medical conditions like anemia faster and more accurately than highly specialized medical equipment being developed for the task.
Patrick Wolfe, Purdue provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and diversity, at Friday's Board of Trustees meeting announced Bernie Engel as the next Glenn W. Sample Dean of Agriculture, effective July 15. Engel, chosen following an extensive national search, has served Purdue most recently as senior associate dean of agricultural research and graduate education in the College of Agriculture for the past four years. He succeeds Karen Plaut, who earlier this year became Purdue’s executive vice president for research.
Several leadership appointments and organizational updates were announced at the Board of Trustees meeting Friday. The new appointments include Sunil Prabhakar, department head and professor of computer science, being named the next vice provost for faculty affairs; Mohit Tawarmalani, academic director of the Krenicki Center for Business Analytics and Machine Learning, serving as interim dean of the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business; and Eric Barker, the Jeannie and Jim Chaney Dean of the College of Pharmacy, taking on the additional role of (acting) associate provost for graduate programs.
As high-tech enterprises race to release the latest iterations of artificial intelligence, a parallel sprint is on to address evolving questions about the worldwide consequences of all novel technology and AI. The recent Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ETHICS-2023 conference at Purdue brought together 180 people at the tops of their fields in government, academe and the private sector to explore the theme “ethics in the global innovation helix,” with particular attention to defining and confronting the big questions surfacing around AI.
In today’s increasingly complex business environment, many companies are turning to higher education to help deliver innovative solutions to their biggest challenges. At Purdue’s Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business, these relationships are driven by student teams working with the school’s Business Partnerships Office and its applied research centers.
I want to recognize the great work and collegiality of Amy Storms (Libraries and School of Information Studies Business Office). She has always provided excellent guidance on travel expense reports and responds quickly and cheerfully to requests for information about funds and questions about salary bands. She meets each request for information with efficiency, friendliness and patience. Thank you, Amy! – Sammie Morris (Libraries and School of Information Studies)