After celebrating a record number of gifts during its 12th annual Day of Giving on Wednesday (April 30), Purdue University continues to set the standard for single-day fundraising in American higher education. Boilermakers around the globe were encouraged to “give back to the Old Gold and Black” throughout the 24-hour online, social media-driven fundraising effort, and their collective contributions brought in $105.1 million through 36,875 gifts for the university — bringing Purdue Day of Giving’s cumulative total since its launch in 2014 to $602.1 million.
On its 2025 Purdue Day of Giving, Purdue announced the inaugural cohort of the Campaign Steering Committee, which will help guide the university’s most ambitious fundraising effort to date, “Victories & Heroes: Your Campaign for Purdue.”
Stacey L. Connaughton, professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication and director of the Purdue Policy Research Institute, provides a comprehensive review of research in conflict and peace communication and offers readers a range of insights into foundational, ongoing and emerging discussions in this field. This volume brings together peace studies, conflict studies and communication studies to acknowledge the power of communication — both cooperative, solidarizing and integrative as well as destructive and divisive — in constituting social relations.
The Purdue Farmers Market is scheduled to resume today (May 1) and will continue every Thursday through Oct. 30. Organized by Purdue Conferences and Event Design, the market will be open to the public from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Memorial Mall in West Lafayette. Several vendors gather to provide a variety of local fresh produce, herbs, plants and flowers, meats and prepared food, including lunch items and desserts.
Cara Putman, clinical associate professor at Purdue and director of the Daniels School of Business’ Brock-Wilson Center for Women in Business, is a visionary Boilermaker and leader in many fields. In this episode of “This Is Purdue,” learn why she has dedicated her life to being an educator and mentor to hundreds of students at the Daniels School.
