At No. 43 overall among 400-plus universities ranked in the country, Purdue captured its best-ever undergraduate ranking by U.S. News & World Report as it improved its position from No. 51 last year. Purdue was also named the No. 7 Most Innovative university, as the new U.S. News & World Report undergraduate ranking extends Purdue’s streak to six consecutive years as a top 10 Most Innovative school in the nation.
A Purdue researcher is taking a giant leap forward in the fight against drug-resistant strains of malaria in developing countries. Open Philanthropy has awarded $1.38 million to Philip Low to further validate a drug therapy that he and his colleagues have previously shown to successfully treat the disease. Low is Purdue’s Presidential Scholar for Drug Discovery and the Ralph C. Corley Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in the College of Science.
The Office of Research is seeking nominations for Purdue's most prestigious annual research awards. Purdue bestows three awards of distinction each year to faculty members from the West Lafayette campus with recent extraordinary research, scholarly or creative contributions in their field.
The American Chemical Society has announced that chemistry professor Suzanne Bart will be the 2024 recipient of the F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry. The award, which recognizes distinguished work in synthetic inorganic chemistry, was established by the ACS board of directors in 2002 and is supported by the F. Albert Cotton Endowment Fund.
The 2023 Purdue United Way campaign will kick off Wednesday (Sept. 20), with the goal of raising $700,000 for local agencies in need. The campaign ends Nov. 8. Beth McNeil, dean of Libraries and School of Information Studies, is this year’s campaign chair, and Marion Underwood, dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences, is the vice chair.