Purdue, Korean city of Incheon sign MOU to promote joint academic programming, faculty and student exchange, and research collaborations

November 25, 2025

On Nov. 20 in Incheon, South Korea, Purdue University signed a memorandum of understanding with the metropolitan city of Incheon to collaborate on educational initiatives and to promote academic and research and development exchanges.

THE 2025 INSPIRE ENGINEERING GIFT GUIDE

November 13, 2025

Sparking Curiosity Through Engineering and Play Purdue University's 2025 Engineering Gift Guide, released November 10, 2025, celebrates the power of play to inspire the next generation of innovators. This year's edition showcases 10 microelectronics-themed gifts designed to help children and teens explore how tiny technologies drive big discoveries.

Purdue and Google aim to grow a strategic AI partnership

November 13, 2025

Building on previous collaborations, Purdue University and Google are charting a path toward deeper collaboration in artificial intelligence — one that would weave together education and research to prepare the next generation of AI leaders while advancing the technology itself. Leaders from both organizations discussed this shared commitment with stakeholders Thursday (Nov. 13) at AI Frontiers: Uniting Education, Business and Government for Real-World Innovation, which they co-hosted to advance dialogue on AI’s role in education and research.

Purdue's innovative semiconductor research powers future impact of Birck Nanotechnology Center

October 24, 2025

Purdue's innovative investment 20 years ago into a research facility for the emerging science of nanotechnology has led to the university being one of the world's leaders in semiconductor and microelectronics research today - and into the future. Panel discussions with former and current Purdue faculty and leadership, as well as semiconductor industry leaders, celebrated the past and looked into the future of research at Birck Nanotechnology Center as part of the facility's 20th anniversary celebration Monday (Oct. 20).

Purdue surpasses $1B in total research expenditures for the first time

October 10, 2025

Purdue University set a new research benchmark for fiscal year 2025, receiving resources that were spent on a record of over $1 billion on research, underscoring the university’s growing role as a national leader in critical fields such as life sciences, computing technologies, advanced manufacturing and AI.

Birck Nanotechnology Center: 20th anniversary

October 7, 2025

Getting bigger and getting smaller Nanotechnology is a rapidly developing field today, but it was still in its nascent stage 20 years ago when the Birck Nanotechnology Center was launched on October 8, 2005. Defined as the manipulation of matter at the nano scale, nanotechnology has burgeoned into a thriving domain, where the unique phenomena exhibited at its scale of between 1 and 100 nanometers have given rise to a host of applications across numerous economic sectors, particularly semiconductors, with the constant push to pack more processing punch into smaller footprints.