Three separate colleges will hold classes in Hancock County—if a business-led education alliance can finance the space. The Hancock Community Education Alliance has lined up a vacant retail building on State Road 9 in hopes that Ball State, Purdue and Vincennes universities can offer classes next spring.
Notre Dame, Purdue and Indiana all ranked on the list, which was dominated by American universities.
Indiana University had a license or two to print money from the commercialization of its technology over the last year—and did it ever. While Purdue University didn’t collect as much in royalties from commercialization, it pulled down record levels of research grants.
Purdue’s enrollment figures show that it has 74,759 students at its five campuses and various technology program sites around Indiana.
Purdue's Center for the Environment and the Chinese Academy of Sciences will use their partnership to focus on the impact of population growth and urbanization in the two nations.
University will spend nearly $70 million to construct health and life science research facilities, including a drug-discovery lab, in West Lafayette.
Officials are expecting up to 500 total professors and staff members who are at least 60 to leave their jobs.
In the last 10 years, Indiana’s major research universities—Indiana and Purdue—have nearly doubled their
science-based research budgets, to a total of $895 million. Yet Indiana’s public universities still run in the middle
of the pack nationally.
A university committee said an early-retirement offer could reduce salary and benefit costs, and eliminate the need for layoffs.
A new Purdue University study has found that controlling urban sprawl and planting more trees are the keys to reducing water
runoff that causes urban flooding.
Purdue University will join the quest for cheap solar-generated electricity with an initiative aimed at speeding up research
across the industry. The Network for Photovoltaic Technology will launch this fall, focused on creating computer models to
eliminate costly and slow trial-and-error research in the solar industry.
Information security expert Eugene Spafford says companies can use the radio frequency identification tags for their own benefit
by tracking what consumers have purchased without the risk of being noticed spying on them at a store.
The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute awarded $750,000 to 10 teams of researchers.
Officials plan to buy four Cirrus SR20 planes at an air show in Oshkosh, Wis., this Friday. Purdue is purchasing 16 of the
single-engine planes and an Embraer Phenom 100 jet for $8.6 million.
Moniker reflects ownership change years earlier, better description of company's focus.
The Higher Education Opportunity Act requires schools to fight illegal distribution of copyrighted material and educate campus
communities about the issue. Schools that don’t comply risk losing their eligibility for federal student aid.
The board on Friday approved a $20.6 million construction contact for the First Street Towers project.
Former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities among IU appointments.
After 10-month search, Purdue University officials broaden quest for new permanent dean for Krannert School of Management.
School officials hope to have position filled by spring.
The three simultaneous gatherings are expected to draw about 600 scientists and researchers from some 30 countries to the
West Lafayette campus from July 12-15.
