Purdue’s School of Nursing students place their hands into a large, beating human heart, immersing themselves into anatomy rather than simply studying it. As part of the Envision Center’s CollabXR program, which offers a collaborative, multi-user virtual and augmented reality platform that expands the classroom using 3D visualizations, clinical associate professor Amy Nagle invited a group of first-year students to take a deeper dive into their anatomy and physiology education through this active learning opportunity.
Four teams of Purdue students won a combined $5,500 from Purdue Innovates Incubator during the finals of the Moonshot Pitch Challenge, a semiannual ideation-focused competition. Fifteen finalist teams had two minutes to pitch their solutions to judges. Winning teams ideated solutions that address medical, battery and business challenges.
Daniel Cziczo, professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, was elected as an American Geophysical Union fellow, joining a distinguished group of 52 individuals in the 2025 Class of Fellows. AGU, the world's largest Earth and space science association, bestows this honor annually to a select number of individuals who have made exceptional contributions. Since the program’s inception in 1962, less than 0.1% of AGU members have been selected as Fellows each year.
Mel Raines, CEO of Pacers Sports & Entertainment, will join Purdue President Mung Chiang on Thursday (Oct. 2) for a timely conversation as part of the Presidential Lecture Series. Titled “Leading Teams on and off the Court: Business, Community and the Power of Sports,” the free event is at 6 p.m. in Stewart Center’s Fowler Hall.
From the lab to the real world, Purdue is preparing its students to solve today’s toughest problems. On our latest episode of “This Is Purdue,” Dimitri Peroulis, senior vice president for partnerships and online and the Reilly Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, explains how Boilermakers can get their foot in the door with research industry partners like Eli Lilly and Company and Wabash — and by exploring degrees and microcredentials that didn’t exist 10 years ago. Related: Watch the
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