Purdue has appointed four recipients as Showalter Faculty Scholars. The addition of Sandro Matosevic, Dianne Little, Qing Deng and Noll Campbell (not pictured) brings the number of currently funded Showalter scholars to 15 for the West Lafayette location. The Showalter Trust also provided 13 early-career faculty members with 2025 research grants.
“At Purdue, I’ve found another home,” says Elizabeth Su, a PhD candidate in biomedical engineering (BME). She’s not alone. Graduate students continue to be drawn to Purdue’s BME program, which ranks among the nation’s best — No. 5 for universities without a medical school, No. 5 in the Big Ten, No. 8 among the nation’s public universities and 24th overall, according to the U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 rankings.
Registration is open for faculty to attend the Nov. 11 Westwood Lecture. Michelle Thompson, associate professor of earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences in the College of Science, will present “A Time Machine to the Early Solar System: Analyzing Samples from Asteroid Bennu Returned by the NASA OSIRIS-REx Mission” from 4:30-5:30 p.m. at Westwood, the Purdue president’s residence.
Benefits open enrollment for 2026 begins today and ends at 6 p.m. ET Nov. 11. All employees are strongly encouraged to review and actively enroll for 2026 benefits. Remember, the benefit choices made during open enrollment will be in effect for all of 2026 unless a qualifying life event occurs.
