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Erin Ward is a senior lecturer at Purdue and recipient of the university’s 2023 Excellence in Instruction Award for Lecturers.

Faria Chaudhry remembers the exact moment she decided to pursue a career in pharmacy. Home from college when her father started having a heart attack, Chaudhry raced upstairs to grab his medicine. “I didn’t know where my path would lead, but I knew I wanted to learn more about medications.”

Humankind hasn’t yet journeyed to Mars — but we have been to Hanksville, Utah. It’s kind of the same thing.

In the five years Paul Robbins taught high school math in South Carolina, he worked in two different schools, one sufficiently resourced and the other underfunded. The stark contrast between the opportunities available to students based on school resources motivated him to enroll in graduate school and pursue a career in academia.

Purdue professors are helping make autonomous vehicles more inclusive while the technology is still in its early days.

Misinformation is rampant, and sometimes it’s difficult to separate fact from fiction. When it comes to public health, information literacy is critical to enable understanding and affirm credibility.
“Information literacy is fundamental to public health,” says Andrea Hayes, an assistant professor and health and critical information literacy librarian in the Department of Libraries and School of Information Studies.

The Gramlich family aspires to be examples of persistence that their children can look to for guidance.