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Purdue University is once again the highest-ranked public university in Indiana, and the state’s only public institution among the nation’s top 50 for the second year in a row, according to the 2025 Best Colleges rankings compiled by U.S. News & World Report. In the rankings that focus primarily on undergraduate programs, which were released Tuesday (Sept. 24), Purdue ranked No. 18 among public universities and No. 46 of 434 national universities, while also maintaining its position as one of the top 10 of the most innovative schools expanded. in the nation (No. 9) to seven consecutive years.

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In an important step to expand Purdue University’s global leadership in innovation and business, President Mung Chiang last week led a high-level delegation on a three-day visit to India aimed at strengthening the university’s role as a crucial partner in the fast-growing semiconductor industry in India. , financial and emerging technology sectors. This visit marks a new chapter in Purdue’s 125-year relationship with India, dating back to the first Indian students. Purdue’s leadership team held 12 high-level meetings in three cities with Indian government officials, top academic institutions and industry leaders. The discussions focused on collaboration in education, expanding joint R&D initiatives and exploring new opportunities in critical technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, finance and space.

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After a decade of preparation and two years of active experiments in space, a facility that Purdue University and NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland designed, built and tested has completed its test campaign on the International Space Station. The Flow Boiling and Condensation Experiment (FBCE), led by Purdue professor Issam Mudawar, collected essential data for technical innovations to help astronauts travel further into space and conduct long-duration missions on the moon or Mars. The data will also inform the design of future spacecraft propulsion systems, thermal management systems, in-space refueling and vapor compression heat pumps for planetary bases.

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Scientists from agricultural, biological, and technological backgrounds are turning to AI as they work together to find ways in which these algorithms and models can analyze data sets to better understand and predict a world affected by climate change. In a recent article published in Frontiers in Plant Science, Claudia Aviles Toledo, PhD candidate in geomatics from Purdue University, working with her faculty advisors and co-authors Melba Crawford and Mitch Tuinstra, demonstrated the ability of a recurrent neural network – a model that teaches computers to process data using long-term memory – to predict corn yields based on various remote sensing technologies and environmental and genetic data.

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Aniket Bera, associate professor of computer science at Purdue University’s College of Science, explains that teaching robots how humans learn is key to understanding and navigating the physical world. Helping robots understand the physical world improves their functionality and navigation, making them more practical in situations from wilderness rescue to food delivery. Bera’s research focuses on improving robots’ ability to understand and predict how people will move in a space, allowing robots to avoid collisions and make better decisions.

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About Purdue University

Purdue University is a public research institution that demonstrates excellence on a large scale. Ranked among the top 10 public universities and with two colleges in the top four in the United States, Purdue discovers and disseminates knowledge with unparalleled quality and scale. More than 105,000 students study at Purdue in a variety of modes and locations, including nearly 50,000 in person on the West Lafayette campus. Committed to affordability and accessibility, Purdue’s main campus has frozen tuition for thirteen years in a row. See how Purdue never stops in its relentless pursuit of the next big leap – including the first comprehensive urban campus in Indianapolis, the Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue Computes and the One Health initiative – at https://www.purdue.edu / president/strategic initiatives.