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Over 150 years of pursuing innovation, in small steps and giant leaps.  

We keep going. Purdue provides practical solutions to today’s toughest challenges and leads the way to where the world is heading. We’re student-centered, future-focused and prioritize progress, together. 

Dive into the cutting-edge research and groundbreaking discoveries that happen here. Boilermakers are addressing the semiconductor demand, developing cancer treatment methods and creating accessible pathways to a world-class education. 

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Nationally in Startup Creation, Behind Only MIT and Columbia IP Watchdog Institute, 2020
Top 10
Most Innovative School in the U.S. 6 Years Running U.S. News & World Report, 2024
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in the U.S. for Patents U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2023

Brad Duerstock, a professor on the EASI RIDER design team.

How could future autonomous transportation be accessible to everyone? 

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

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Purdue Global, PPHS carry on tradition that dates back to Purdue’s founding

Nearly 45 years after she attended her first class on Purdue University’s West Lafayette campus, Cynthia Walker Middleton finished what she started by completing an online degree in business administration through Purdue Global. Justin Marvin enrolled at Purdue Global with the hope that a college degree would strengthen his chances of someday achieving a high-level leadership position in fire and emergency management …

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What is a land-grant university?

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The world’s whitest paint, developed by Purdue University researchers and recognized in Guinness World Records, has been named winner of the 2023 Innovation Award in the sustainability category by South by Southwest Conference & Festivals (SXSW).
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Microchip fab plants in the United States can cram billions of data processing transistors onto a tiny silicon chip, but a critical device, in essence a “clock,” to time the operation of those transistors must be made separately – creating…
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Purdue engineers improve solar cell efficiency, stability

Purdue University researchers have created new, multifunctional ligands that improve the charge transfer, power conversion capability and long-term stability of perovskite solar cells. Perovskite is a material that can be formed from different elements to have a variety of electrical,…
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From left, Purdue University President Mitch Daniels, Indiana Secretary of Commerce Bradley Chambers, SkyWater president and CEO Thomas Sonderman, West Lafayette Mayor John Dennis, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb and Lafayette Mayor Tony Roswarski participate in the announcement that SkyWater Technology has chosen Discovery Park District at Purdue as the location for a $1.8 billion state-of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing facility. (Purdue University photo/John Underwood)

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Purdue University partners with leading global chipmaker on semiconductor design center

Purdue University’s College of Engineering is partnering with MediaTek Inc., a leading global fabless chipmaker, to open the company’s first semiconductor chip design center in the Midwest, to be housed on Purdue’s campus. Mung Chiang, Purdue’s John A. Edwardson Dean…
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Purdue launches nation’s first comprehensive Semiconductor Degrees Program

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