June 23, 2022
Today's Top 5 From Purdue University
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Purdue Polytechnic High Schools’ students celebrate graduation
Purdue Polytechnic High Schools celebrated the Class of 2022 at PPHS Schweitzer Center at Englewood on June 10. The graduating class of 113 included students from PPHS’ two Indianapolis campuses and South Bend campus. Thirty-four of the graduates have accepted their offer to attend Purdue in West Lafayette in the fall.
Media contact: Matthew Oates, oatesw@purdue.edu
Meeting students’ needs, wherever they are
Meet three graduates who recognized that the flexibility of Purdue University Global’s online associate, bachelor’s, graduate and law programs – a total of 175 programs in all – could allow them to persistently pursue their educational goals.
Media contact: Tom Schott, tschott@purdue.edu
Purdue’s newest online engineering master’s focuses on microelectronics and semiconductors integral to modern life
Purdue’s Semiconductor Degrees Program is a new suite of innovative, comprehensive, high-value degrees and credentials that targets graduate and undergraduate students and working professionals, including a new 100% online interdisciplinary Master of Science degree in microelectronics and semiconductors launching in fall 2022.
Media contact: Greg Kline, gkline@purdue.edu
Purdue faculty honored with Fulbright Scholar Awards
Studying nonlinear interfacial waves, developing solutions for clean propulsion and analyzing the development of heritage languages in the classroom environment are some of the research projects representing five Purdue faculty who have been named U.S. Fulbright Scholars.
Media contact: Amy Patterson Neubert, apatterson@purdue.edu
Purdue Air Race Classic team takes to the skies
This year’s 115 competitors in the 45th annual Air Race Classic – an all-woman, daylight-only race in which race teams fly a defined course to a list of predefined airports – include a team from the School of Aviation and Transportation Technology in Purdue University’s Polytechnic Institute.
Media contact: Brian Huchel, bhuchel@purdue.edu
About Purdue University
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