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According to the 2025 Best Colleges rankings compiled by U.S. News & World Report, Purdue University is once again the top-ranked public university in Indiana and, for the second consecutive year, the state’s only public institution among the top 50 in the country. In the rankings released Tuesday (Sept. 24), which focus primarily on undergraduate programs, Purdue ranked No. 18 among public universities and ranked No. 46 overall among 434 national universities. At the same time, Purdue extended its streak as one of the ten most innovative schools in the nation (No. 9) to seven consecutive years.

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In a major step toward expanding 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 to solidify the university’s role as a key partner in India’s rapidly growing semiconductor, finance and emerging technology sectors. This visit marks a new chapter in Purdue’s 125-year relationship with India, dating back to its 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. 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 aerospace.

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

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Scientists with agricultural, biological and technological backgrounds are turning to AI as they collaborate to find ways that 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, Purdue University geomatics graduate student Claudia Aviles Toledo, working with her faculty advisors and co-authors Melba Crawford and Mitch Tuinstra, demonstrated the power of a recurrent neural network—a model that teaches computers to process They use long short-term memory to predict corn yield using various remote sensing technologies as well as environmental and genetic data.

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Aniket Bera, associate professor of computer science in Purdue University’s College of Science, explains that teaching robots how humans learn is critical to understanding and navigating robots in 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 works to improve robots’ ability to understand and predict how people move in space, so robots can avoid collisions and make better decisions.

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