Category: Message

2025 Year In Review

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...
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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...
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Excited graduates take a celebratory giant leap in front of the fountain on Purdue Mall following Friday’s (May 10) spring commencement ceremony. (Purdue University photo/John Underwood)

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...
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The Characters of Engineering Synthesis

Remarks at the Investiture Ceremony of Dartmouth College’s Thayer School of Engineering  Introduction   Thank you, Dean Abramson, Provost Kotz, and Trustee Chair Lempres, for the kind introduction and precious opportunity. Good morning to distinguished colleagues and guests. And congratulations to...
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Spring 2024 Commencement Remarks

Purdue President Mung Chiang made these remarks during the university’s Spring 2024 Commencement ceremonies May 10-12. As we celebrate your graduation, it is customary at our university for the president to say a few words with some specific theme. To...
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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...
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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...
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Purdue President Mung Chiang

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...
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2023 at Purdue: A Boilermaker Year in Review

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Purdue President Mung Chiang

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...
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