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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.
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.
Purdue University Global, Inc. (Purdue Global) is a public online university that is a separately accredited part of the Purdue University system. Its primary focus is educating working adults. Purdue Global was created in 2018 by Purdue University's acquisition and rebranding of for-profit Kaplan University.
In 2010, Sands was appointed by Purdue University's Board of Trustees as Purdue's Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost. [ 5 ] In June 2012, Sands was appointed acting president of the Purdue University system following the retirement of its 11th president, France A. Córdova , until president-elect and then Indiana governor ...
Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW) is a public university in Fort Wayne, Indiana.A campus of Purdue University, Purdue Fort Wayne was founded on July 1, 2018, when its predecessor university, Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne formally split into two separate institutions: Purdue University Fort Wayne and Indiana University Fort Wayne.
Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) [a] was a public research university in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. It was a collaboration between Indiana University and Purdue University that offered undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees from both universities.
Purdue Electrical Laboratory, c. 1892 1904 Panorama of Purdue campus with Electrical Laboratory. In 1901, Telephone Engineering became part of ECE to accommodate the urgent need for engineers who understood how to expand telephone systems from city to city. WBAA, Indiana's oldest surviving radio station, was started in Purdue ECE in 1922.
Purdue's Indianapolis campus is a 21-acre (8.5 ha) plot that was formerly the northeastern-most portion of the IUPUI campus, bordered by Michigan Street, West Street, and Indiana Avenue in downtown Indianapolis. [3] Purdue also initially leased five academic buildings and part of a dormitory from IUI. [4]