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Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. [7] The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money to establish a college of science, technology, and agriculture; [8] the first classes were held on September 16, 1874.
From 1986 till 1989, he was the associate director of the State Historical Society of Missouri. He then joined Iowa State University as an associate professor in 1989 and was promoted to professor in 1992. In 2003, Hurt left Iowa State University to become professor and head of the department of history at Purdue University. He remained head of ...
[1] [2] He is a professor of history at Purdue University and has held visiting positions around the world. [3] In 2001, he founded and still directs “The Scholars' Initiative." [ 4 ] This project seeks to use the work of scholars to undermine nationalist interpretations of the recent past that have made peace in the Balkans difficult.
The following is a partial list of Purdue University faculty, including current, former, emeritus, and deceased faculty, and administrators at Purdue University This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Monty Buell – chair of the Department of History and Philosophy at Walla Walla University; George Casella – statistician at Rutgers University, Cornell University, and the University of Florida; James Samuel Coleman – author of the Coleman Report on the sociology of education; Carl W. Condit – architectural historian, Northwestern ...
Frederick Lawson Hovde (7 February 1908 – 1 March 1983) was an American chemical engineer, researcher, educator and president of Purdue University.. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, Hovde received his Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, where he played on the football team.
Purdue University and the associated university system have had 13 official and 5 officially acting presidents since the university was founded in 1869. [ 1 ] List of presidents
Mung Chiang was born on February 2, 1977, in Tianjin, China. [2] In 1988, when Mung Chiang was 11 years old, his family went to Hong Kong to live with his grandmother. He re-took the fifth grade of primary school at Tak Sun School (德信學校), a full-time Catholic school for boys, and taught himself Cantonese, Traditional Chinese, and English.