The Purdue Board of Trustees ratified eight faculty positions, awarded two posthumous degrees, and approved resolutions of appreciation for friends of the University.

It was a record year for the John Purdue Club in 2021-22, with an all-time best $83 million raised in pledged commitments and cash donations in support of Purdue Athletics. That level of generosity and ambition has positioned the Boilermakers to energetically launch into the 2022-23 season amid the ever-changing landscape of college athletics.

Fifty years ago, Helen Bass Williams, the first African American professor at Purdue, played a leading role in establishing the first learning center on campus. Purdue’s Board of Trustees recently approved changing the name of that facility to the Helen Bass Williams Academic Success Center.

Purdue University Global has awarded Purdue Day of Giving Completion Scholarships to 21 of its top students, all of whom boast a grade-point average of at least 3.0 and are within 30 credits of graduating. The most recent Purdue Day of Giving raised $63,341 from 1,904 gifts for Purdue Global students.

Jeannie (P’61) and Jim Chaney, the Purdue College of Pharmacy’s most generous donors, have made history by pledging $6 million and funding the first-ever termed deanship at the University.

Matt Folk, vice president for university advancement and alumni engagement and president and CEO of the Purdue for Life Foundation, updated the Purdue Board of Trustees on fundraising for the fiscal year ending June 30. Giving to Purdue has already hit an all-time high of $533.1 million.

The Purdue Board of Trustees announced its unanimous election of Mung Chiang, currently the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering and executive vice president for strategic initiatives at Purdue, as the University’s next president. Chiang will replace current president Mitch Daniels effective Jan. 1, 2023. Daniels has served since January 2013.

Thanks to an unexpected bequest of $8.5 million from fellow faculty member John Capaldi, Philip Low, Purdue University’s Presidential Scholar for Drug Discovery and the Ralph C. Corley Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, has funding to support more than 40 years’ worth of cancer research.

The ninth annual Purdue Day of Giving, held April 27, invited donors to power the university’s next giant leap—and they responded with a resounding $68.2 million in contributions, far outstripping last year’s total and setting a record for most dollars raised for higher education through a single-day campaign.

The Purdue Board of Trustees approved the naming of the Equine Sports Medicine Center for alumnus Donald J. McCrosky in recognition of a $3 million gift.