The Purdue University Board of Trustees approved construction today (Aug. 4) on new student housing immediately south of Hillenbrand Residence Hall on the West Lafayette campus. This new university residence will be an eight-story, 252,525-square-foot facility at $149M that includes 896 pod-style beds for students. The on-campus housing also provides more space for Purdue’s largest living learning community, The Data Mine, to collaborate with each other and with their mentors in the corporate partners program.
The Purdue University Board of Trustees approved 2024 health plans, which will have no employee premium increase for the fifth straight year. The plans for 2024 align with the university’s strategic approach to health care and the Healthy Boiler Wellness Program, and they were designed as part of the ongoing pursuit of improving population health and controlling overall costs for employees and the university.
In an action needed before bringing commercial air service for Greater Lafayette to Purdue University Airport, the Purdue University Board of Trustees today (Aug. 4) gave approval to a new terminal. As one of the few university airports in the country, this airport is where Amelia Earhart instructed flight students in the 1930s. This is a significant next step in Purdue serving the state through “ABC”: Airport for Greater Lafayette, Broadband for rural counties and the (hard tech) Corridor for central Indiana.
In acknowledging the country’s critical workforce needs for skilled nurses and pharmacists and to expand interprofessional education opportunities that mirror modern health care settings, the Purdue University Board of Trustees today (Aug. 4) gave approval to the Nursing and Pharmacy Education Building on the West Lafayette campus. The approximately 186,000-square-foot, $160M building for the School of Nursing and College of Pharmacy will be located at the corner of Mitch Daniels Boulevard and Russell Street.
The Purdue Global Board of Trustees voted today (Aug. 4) to change the name of its law school to Purdue Global Law School, effective in November. Currently known as Concord Law School, the renaming to Purdue Global Law School will better position the law school’s long-term marketing and accreditation efforts and align the school with Purdue Global’s overall branding. It will also meet an expectation of the Indiana Supreme Court, which is reviewing a bar licensure petition to allow the online law school’s graduates to be eligible to sit for the Indiana bar exam and become licensed to practice law in the state.
The Purdue University Board of Trustees ratified faculty and staff appointments, recognizing efforts in discovery, learning and engagement that have advanced Purdue’s land-grant mission while elevating its reputation as a leading research university across the country and around the world. The following individuals received the newly ratified positions: Michael Sangid, Sherif Elfayoumy, Leonard Harris, Melba M. Crawford, Andrei Gabrielov, Jie Shen, Alexandra (Sasha) Boltasseva, Carol Handwerker, Scott Sudhoff, Rao S. Govindaraju and Fabio Ribeiro.
In his report to the Board of Trustees, President Mung Chiang acknowledged Purdue faculty who received notable awards for research and scholarship
from April through July and provided updates to Purdue University in Indianapolis. He also reviewed fiscal year 2022-23 metrics, including that both gift funding and research awards set new milestones (both more than $600 million), undergraduate applications surpassed 70,000 for the first time, graduation rates improved further and the university’s strong reputation as recognized in QS Global Rankings as a top 10 public university in the U.S.
In his presentation to the Board of Trustees, John W. Sutherland, Professor and Fehsenfeld Family Head of Environmental and Ecological Engineering (EEE), overviewed his career contributions to sustainable manufacturing. In the 1990s, Sutherland adapted Deming’s teachings on quality management to attack the root causes of manufacturing waste streams to reduce negative environmental impacts and improve industrial competitiveness. He cited the use of cutting fluids in machining within the auto industry to demonstrate how engineering more sustainable processes can reduce waste and resource consumption while cutting costs. Since 2009, Sutherland has led the growth of Purdue EEE into one of the largest environmental engineering programs in
the country. In February, Sutherland was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his research contributions to environmental sustainability in manufacturing and their implementation in industry.
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