The Purdue University Board of Trustees on Friday (Aug. 5) approved 2023 health plans, which will have no employee premium increase for the fourth straight year. Additionally, employees on the West Lafayette, Fort Wayne and Northwest campuses enrolled in a Purdue medical plan will receive a health care appreciation payment later this year equal to two months of the average employee premium. |
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Purdue University celebrated almost 1,700 students’ academic accomplishments during two summer commencement ceremonies on Saturday (Aug. 6). Eligible to participate in the ceremonies were 1,699 students – 510 undergraduate, 756 master’s, 407 Ph.D. and 26 professional program candidates.
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The first letter ever etched on the Martian surface is the letter L. Far from being an act of interplanetary graffiti, though, it’s there for scientific purposes. Roger Wiens, professor of earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences, led the team that built SuperCam, a tool on the Mars rover Perseverance that used its laser to etch the L on the surface to learn more about Mars’ lost magnetic field.
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More students than ever are graduating early, participating in study abroad and earning extra credentials through enrollment in Summer Session classes at Purdue. Purdue’s total enrollment of graduate, professional and undergraduate students across all Summer Session programs this year is more than 22,000, which is an increase of almost 15% from Summer Session 2021.
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Purdue University has been voted America’s No. 4 most trusted public university, and No. 21 overall, in Morning Consult’s “Most Trusted Universities” study measuring how deeply the public currently trusts universities “to do the right thing.”
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What’s happening? Purdue University is introducing a more robust, fully branded electronic central calendar that streamlines the West Lafayette campus’ public events and allows the University community and the general public to customize their personal scheduling and event planning. Related: How to use Purdue’s new, more interactive university calendar
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Here is a sampling of recent news reports about Purdue from media across the nation and the world. | |
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