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Structural biologist and director of Purdue's Institute of Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Disease director, Richard J. Kuhn won Purdue's 2023 Morrill Award for his research in RNA viruses. What is the significance of the legal document that gave the Morrill Award its name?
The Morrill Act of 1862 allowed for the establishment of land-grant colleges and universities such as Purdue.
In September of this year, Gudrun Schmidt, associate professor of practice in Purdue's Department of Chemistry, used proteins in Indiana's favorite produce, corn, to create a glue that gets stronger in what liquid?
Water, H2O
In his first start-of-the school year welcome message, President Mung Chiang highlighted the incoming classes admission rate, the highest yet. What was Purdue's 2023 admission rate?
50%
2023 is the first year under new head football coach Ryan Walters. He previously coached at the University of Illinois. However, he was not head coach there. What was his title?
Defensive Coordinator
In a letter to the Exponent Editor, a concerned lecturer asks a "troubling question": "What if more ________ or ______ are thoughtlessly left in the middle of the sidewalks when I'm making my way home tonight?"
Scooters or Bikes
In 2022, five Purdue professors won the Charles B. Murphy Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching. What out-of-this world department head optimized his last name to C his way to the top of the list?
William (or Billiam) A. Crossley, Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering)
In 2022, Deborah Knapp, Purdue Professor of Comparative Oncology was bravely inspired by what dog breed in her research to detect bladder cancer?
Scottish Terriers
The Purdue Research Foundation received 192 US patents in 2022. Who is president of the Purdue Research Foundation?
Brian Edelman
Of the 8 inductees in the 2022 Leroy Keyes Purdue Athletics Hall of Fame, two are connected to our own Swimming and Diving teams. One is Darlene Renie, a sweet lady who thinks my name is Logan and gives me TShirts when the Men's Swim team acts dangerously, and the other is the name sake of the formerly Boilermaker Aquatic Center. Who puts the B in BAC?
Burke (Specifically Morgan J Burke, former athletics administrator now honored by the Morgan J Burke Aquatic Center)
In April of 2022, how many of the 33 Indianapolis 500 Festival Princesses were Purdue Undergraduate students?
5 (five)
In 2021, two of Purdue's 3 highest research award winners were from the same department. Micheal J. Manfra, for his research in condensed matter and quantum physics, and Yong Chen for his research in the synthesis of various novel quantum materials. What two schools at Purdue are they both professors of?
Physics and Astronomy, Electrical and Computer Engineering
A Purdue mechanical engineering professor's reMARKable 2021 research is now featured on the side of the Physics building. What innovation did Xiulin Ruan pioneer that is /primed/ to combat global warming?
The world's whitest paint. (It reflects 98.1% of sunlight and could eliminate the need for AC)
2021 was the first year that Purdue Polytechnic Highschool had a graduating class. What proportion of that class accepted admission to Purdue West Lafayette?
1/3rd
In 2021, Purdue's Men's Basketball team was ranked number 1 in the country for the first time ever. I was in the front row of the game against the Iowa Hawkeyes which earned this ranking. What superhero was I dressed as?
Thor (fun fact purdue pete dressed as thor like a month later and I take credit)
In 2021, Purdue held its first in-person commencement since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Then President Mitch "Daddy" Daniels remarked, "The biggest risk of all is that we stop..." finish the quote.
"The biggest risk of all is that we stop taking risks"
Briony Horgan, associate professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary (EAPS), selected the Jezero Crater as the landing site for the MARS 2020 rover, also known as what?
The Perseverance Rover!
In May 2020 Young Kim, a biomedical engineering associate professor, published an app to detect Anemia by taking a picture of what part of an individual's body?
Their eyelid.
On what day in 2020 did Purdue announce that it would be moving to remote learning for the remainder of Spring 2020?
March 16th (will also accept March 10th when we were told to expect this development)
In the 2020 Olympics, nine boilermakers represented 5 countries. What volleyball alumni was the first to play? (It was against Argentina)
Annie Drews
In a September 18th 2020 Exponent article titled "Would-be stabber stabbed in self defense", an encounter is described in which Keith Hyde, 52, charged at a victim, intending to cut off the man's head but the victim sidestepped the man and used his own knife to stab him in what part of the body?
The shoulder
In 2019 Purdue broke its record of number of faculty who were recognized as Fulbright Scholars. They were recognized for research in in human health, agriculture, and math. How many faculty were recognized in total?
Eight (8)
In 2019, the Neurodevelopmental Family Lab won Discovery Park's Big Idea Challenge for research assessing diagnoses with a tool called PANDAbox and a treatment plan called POcKIT. What condition do they both address?
Autism!
In 2019, the Engineering and Polytechnic Gateway project was approved by the board of trustees. What are the names of the two buildings that have now resulted from this development?
Dudley and Lambertus Halls
Purdue won the 2019 Marketing Team of the Year as voted by NACMA. What does NACMA stand for?
National Association of Collegiate Marketing Administrators
In August of 2019, a corn maze in Thorntown Indiana honored a Boilermaker alumni who had passed on New Years day that year. It showed the late football fan holding up peace signs in a Purdue Motion P patterned blazer. Who was that corn maze memorializing?
Tyler Trent