Top 5 stories from Purdue University
Some of the best stories from this week include a Mitch Daniels School of Business groundbreaking, the new campus transit service and a Purdue history professor named a Carnegie Fellow. Trevor Peters has all the latest Boilermaker news in this week’s edition of “Purdue News Now.”
Plus, check out five good stories below you may have missed.
Purdue University held a groundbreaking ceremony April 11 for a new Mitch Daniels School of Business facility. The future building will give the school three facilities, joining the Krannert Building and Jerry S. Rawls Hall — all connected above- and belowground. The private event featured remarks from Purdue President Mung Chiang; Purdue President Emeritus Mitch Daniels; Jim Bullard, the Dr. Samuel R. Allen Dean of the Mitch Daniels School of Business; Gary Lehman, chair of the Purdue University Board of Trustees; and Ted Maple, vice president for education with Lilly Endowment Inc.
Media contact: Erin Murphy, [email protected]
Kathryn Cramer Brownell, professor of history and director of the Center for American Political History and Technology within the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University, has been selected for the distinguished 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program. A panel of eminent jurors selected 26 exceptional scholars and writers from over 300 nominees for the honor on behalf of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The fellowship supports research and scholarly outputs across the humanities and social sciences, focusing on originality, impact and the capacity of chosen fellows to communicate their findings broadly. Brownell chose to focus on the emergence of new businesses undergirding political polarization in the 1980s and 1990s.
Media contact: Erin Murphy, [email protected]
Purdue University’s Mitch Daniels School of Business remains positioned in elite company with its programs ranked No. 25 worldwide and No. 17 in the U.S. in a 2025 survey of the best business schools globally. The annual ranking, released by CEOWORLD magazine on April 6, placed the Daniels School of Business third among its Big Ten peers, behind Northwestern (No. 9) and UCLA (No. 23). Separately, the Daniels School’s online MBA program jumped two spots to No. 7 in North America and was tops among its Big Ten peers in CEO Magazine’s Global MBA Rankings survey. Purdue’s online MBA program also rose a single spot to 28th globally in that magazine’s survey, which was released March 24.
Media contact: Erin Murphy, [email protected]
Carolin Frueh is an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics in the College of Engineering at Purdue University. In this video, she explains the problem of space debris, its impact on current and future space missions, and the importance of taking preventative measures in limiting the amount of debris left in space. Frueh says space debris consists of human-made objects, and contrary to what many people believe, there is a large amount of debris beyond our atmosphere. Frueh explains that once a rocket is launched or a satellite dies, it stays in orbit forever, as there is no mechanism to pull these objects back to Earth beyond a certain point.
Media contact: Trevor Peters, [email protected]
Purdue University researchers are developing innovative antibody-based immunotherapies that recruit and improve the function of the body’s innate immune system to treat glioblastoma, an incurable brain tumor. Sandro Matosevic’s patent-pending work improves upon traditional molecules to recruit and activate natural killer (NK) cells. NK cells are a type of white blood cell that have granules with enzymes to kill tumor cells or virus-infected cells. Matosevic is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Molecular Pharmaceutics in Purdue’s College of Pharmacy and on the faculty of the Purdue Institute for Cancer Research and Purdue Institute for Drug Discovery.
Media contact: Erin Murphy, [email protected]
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