The Board of Trustees approved the promotion of eight assistant professors to the tenured position of associate professor at its January 2026 meeting. Their promotions will take effect July 1.

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A new smart platform invented by Purdue University researchers to wirelessly monitor subsoil health could change the landscape of agricultural sensing systems. The invention addresses a critical need ...

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All around her, scientists had their eyes set on studying flora and fauna that lived aboveground. But Toby Kiers’s interest always lay in the oft-overlooked biodiversity that existed beneath it. It ...

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