The long-vacant P.R. Mallory building on East Washington Street is closer to becoming occupied, after plans to bring the Purdue Polytechnic High School there stalled over higher-than-expected renovation costs.
The school said Purdue University Global received a notice of approval Monday from the Higher Learning Commission, a regional university accrediting body.
The three-year project involves research into and development of materials and structures for reusable hypersonic aircraft, which travel at five times the speed of sound.
Purdue University is several weeks away from what university officials hope is final approval of its acquisition of Kaplan University.
The technology has futuristic business applications in a number of industries, including real estate, medicine and retail, where stores could offer holographic online shopping.
IBJ talked with the longtime broadcasters about their experiences behind a central Indiana mic.
The apple is the product of a cooperative breeding program involving Purdue University, Rutgers University and the University of Illinois that began in 1945. The schools will receive royalties on the fruit.
Purdue University is rolling out a grant program to help lower- and middle-class Indiana students afford college.
A Purdue University professor has received a $5 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help develop hybrid grain seeds that will resist parasite weeds.
The former Indiana governor was hired by the university in 2013 at an initial salary of $546,000.
Amy Cornell, a 2006 graduate of IU McKinney and also graduate of Purdue University, has been hired as a consultant to assemble a steering committee to build the program.
Purdue University’s football program played in five bowl games in school history before Joe Tiller arrived; it played in 10 after he took over.
Researchers at Indiana University and Purdue University have received $2.55 million from Susan G. Komen to study possible new treatments.
Purdue University says a veteran university administrator will guide its Fort Wayne campus while it transitions away from shared governance with Indiana University.
Purdue University says it has won U.S. Education Department approval to move forward with its plan to acquire for-profit Kaplan University and operate it online as Purdue NewU.
Some Purdue faculty members who question those plans say they're worried about the reputation of Kaplan University and parent company, Kaplan Higher Education.
The five-year grant from the National Science Foundation is expected to provide an early boost to Purdue’s new engineering research center.
Purdue officials say the West Lafayette campus has 1,122 more students than it did a year ago.
Before Mitch Daniels took the helm, the university used its intellectual property to create about eight startups annually. The school has been averaging nearly three times that each year since.
The program is “not for the faint of heart,” a Purdue dean said. It will require the students to be in school year-round and complete summer courses.
