The Purdue Board of Trustees ratified faculty and staff appointments and the promotion and tenure of faculty, and approved resolutions of appreciation for friends of the university who recently contributed $1 million or more to Purdue.
The Purdue Board of Trustees has approved naming the School of Industrial Engineering for alumnus John A. Edwardson in recognition of $25 million in total gift commitments to support students, faculty, and programming. The school will be known as the Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering.