Category: Message

December 1, 2025

2025 at Purdue: A Boilermaker Year in Review

2025 has been a year of records in Purdue history: the most selective incoming class and the first time that the annual research expenditure exceeded $1 billion, as well as in the history of American higher education, with the largest university-industry research partnership...

May 9, 2025

A Special Thank You for Making History at Purdue

May 9, 2025 Dear Purdue University Colleagues and Students, As we conclude this busy semester, we are excited to announce that today Eli Lilly and Company and Purdue University signed a partnership agreement where Lilly will provide up to $250...

December 13, 2024

2024 Boilermaker Year in Review

Purdue University broke new records in almost all dimensions of student admissions and success, research and innovation, finance and philanthropy, infrastructure and partnerships, rankings and visibility in fiscal year 2024 that concluded in June. Then the second half of 2024...

August 19, 2024

President Mung Chiang’s Welcome Message, Fall 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5LyWP5L46c As we embark on another momentous academic year, President Mung Chiang extends a warm welcome to all Boilermakers. This year promises exciting opportunities for collaboration and growth across all Purdue locations. Here’s to a year filled with achievements and...

June 18, 2024

Purdue University 2023-24 Highlights

June 27, 2024 Dear Boilermakers, With the 2023-24 fiscal year ending at Purdue University, we are ever grateful for the tremendous work by colleagues and students who strive each day for one brick higher toward excellence at scale. It was...

April 8, 2024

A special message about safety

April 8, 2024Dear Purdue students, Today is special. This afternoon, a total solar eclipse will visit Indianapolis, where we open our first urban campus this July. The next such appearance in Indianapolis will be 129 years from now. Instructors have been encouraged...

April 2, 2024

Winning in the Boilermaker way — with integrity, pride, respect and safety

April 1, 2024 Dear Purdue University community, On Sunday afternoon in Detroit, Purdue’s men’s basketball team continued the winningest season in program history with a victory that sends our Boilermakers to the NCAA Final Four for the first time in...

January 9, 2024

Welcome to 2024 at Purdue

January 9, 2024 Dear Boilermakers, After a smooth, successful and strategic 2023, the new year starts with an exciting announcement today: Lilly Endowment Inc. has committed a $100 million philanthropic gift to Purdue, the largest such gift in the history...

December 19, 2023

2023 at Purdue: A Boilermaker Year in Review

September 22, 2023

Welcome Back to a New Academic Year in West Lafayette

August 14, 2023 Dear Boilermakers, With Boiler Gold Rush welcoming our new students and the 2023-24 academic year starting next week, our campus is lively to its fullest extent once again. From the 100th season at Ross-Ade Stadium to the...