Purdue placed No. 1 among U.S. public universities and was named the No. 9 most recognized university in the world in the 2024-25 Global University Visibility rankings, which were announced on Tuesday (July 16). Purdue came in as the No. 2 public university in the world, behind only Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil); was the top-ranked university in the Big Ten; and outranked every other Indiana university by at least 90 spots overall.
Purdue University Northwest will join the Chicago region’s Bloch Tech Hub, a coalition of industry, academic, government and nonprofit stakeholders led by the Chicago Quantum Exchange and its focus on driving the nation’s quantum economy, university officials announced Thursday (July 18).
Check out the latest top stories from Purdue University in this week’s “Purdue News Now,” a one-minute, weekly video update. This week: Global visibility ranking, Indiana’s 250 most influential leaders, Guinness World Record for the “world’s smallest drum,” Purdue University in Indianapolis alerts and more.
The democratic imagination is facing significant challenges. “The Two Faces of Democracy: Decentering Agonism and Deliberation,” co-written by Mary Scudder, associate professor of political science, illuminates how these two faces of democratic life, the deliberative and agonistic, each has a significant, but constrained, role to play in a more capacious comprehension of what our democratic commitments require of us. Related: A list of recently published Purdue authors is also available online.
Purdue has won a new Guinness World Record. A College of Engineering team led by David Cappelleri has created the “smallest 3D-printed sculpture of a percussion instrument” — a microscopic version of the World’s Largest Drum. Learn more about creating the tiny replica and find out what microrobotics will do for the future of emerging fields like biomedicine.
When Rose Hollermann received notice from Team USA outlining the new benefit of the Guild Career Opportunity Platform for earning a degree, she was excited. Hollermann is a four-time U.S. Paralympian and two-time medalist who plays wheelchair basketball for Team USA. She was one of the first athletes to sign up for a degree program at Purdue Global, which is Purdue’s online university for working adults — and the preferred online university and degree provider of the Guild and Team USA Learning Network.
In this episode of “This Is Purdue,” serial entrepreneur and Purdue Innovates mentor Beth Bostwick provides passionate insights into the world of startups and details how young entrepreneurs can set themselves up for success. Related: Watch the full video on YouTube.
I want to thank Carmen Buck (Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars) for all she does year-round for our team. She is the first to raise her hand to help with anything we need. To get something fixed, delivered, shipped, taken away or built, if she cannot help us herself, she will lead us to someone who can. Without hesitation, she will go above and beyond to help us. We appreciate her and the kindness and willingness to help that she offers to our team every day. — Denise Rossi (Office of the Registrar)
