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Finding Hope in Hardship: Purdue Student Champions Rare Cancer Awareness Through Strides for Sarcoma
2025-07-29
When Gabriella Conjelko stepped onto Purdue’s campus as a Neurobiology and Physiology major, she never imagined she’d also be co-leading a nonprofit that’s making an impact across the country.
61 Boilermakers Honored as Big Ten Distinguished Scholars
2025-07-25
Purdue Athletics produced 60 Big Ten Distinguished Scholars for the sixth consecutive year.
A Vision for Science Without Borders: Subramanian Awarded EMSI’s Highest Distinction
2025-07-22
Ramaswamy Subramanian, professor of biological sciences and biomedical engineering at Purdue University, has been awarded the 2025 Professor N. N. Dasgupta Memorial Lecture Award by the Electron Microscope Society of India (EMSI)—the organization’s highest honor.
Kasinski awarded V Foundation Translational Grant to advance first-in-class targeted RNA therapies
2025-07-16
Andrea Kasinski, Purdue Institute for Cancer Research (PICR) deputy director and professor of biological sciences in Purdue’s College of Science, has been awarded a competitive translational grant from the V Foundation for Cancer Research.
Biological Sciences Welcomes Three New Faculty Members
2025-07-15
This August, Purdue University’s Department of Biological Sciences will welcome three new faculty members.