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COLUMBUS, Ind. - In June, the Board of Trustees from both Indiana University and Purdue University approved a definitive agreement to formalize the se...

Exciting and dynamic inventions discovered and developed by Purdue University researchers are improving people’s lives around the world.

To amplify the impact made by its faculty, staff, students and alumni, the Purdue Research Foundation and Purdue University have formed Purdue Innovates, a comprehensive system to streamline access to both (a) technology commercialization resources, such as intellectual property licensing and protection, and (b) startup support resources, including programs to launch, scale and invest in Purdue-connected startups in one cohesive structure.

From David Robert Lewis’ era to Eric Richardson’s, generations of Black Boilermakers have held each other up and built on one another’s successes.

In the next five years, a minimum of 50,000 trained semiconductor engineers will be needed in the United States to meet the overwhelming and rapidly growing demand. Purdue University has answered that call, becoming the first in the country to launch a comprehensive set of innovative, interdisciplinary degrees and credentials in semiconductors and microelectronics.

New consortium to focus on sustainable development goals...

The small steps they’ve taken over the past few years will soon culminate for many Purdue University students. They will graduate into the next phases of their lives.

Home to national hubs for hypersonics and cybersecurity research, a sprawling innovation district and graduates who are among the most in demand in professional areas such as health care, finance and consulting, aviation and aerospace, and manufacturing, Purdue University has seen graduate student enrollment reach an all-time high — up 16% from last year and 43% over the last decade.

Purdue University’s online engineering remains among the nation’s elite in the newest U.S. News rankings of the Best Online Programs. The rankings, released Tuesday (Jan. 25), have Purdue in the No. 1 spot in four specific categories, and the university’s full array of online engineering programs is at No. 3 for the second year in a row.

Three engineers from Purdue University’s College of Engineering have been named fellows by the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction given solely to academic inventors.