We asked Margaret Hegwood to describe her life in
Kenya on a Boren Fellowship for national security
and strategic language studies.

Elsa is a middle-aged woman with four children and grandchildren living in her little plot in Mosoriot, Nandi County. She has raised her children in her humble mud house and cooked in her smoky little kitchen, a temporary structure leaning on the side of her house, for many years. Elsa did not know that her smoky kitchen could be the reason she had been hospitalized twice for a chest condition in the last two years.

During the 2018-2019 academic year, almost 700 engineering students studied abroad in a variety of programs in 32 countries. These students ranged from freshman to graduated seniors who wanted a study abroad experience before they left Purdue

The National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has awarded Purdue University’s Jacqueline Linnes and Tamara Kinzer-Ursem, assistant professors with the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, and their interdisciplinary team, a $1.14M three-year grant to develop a smartphone-based viral load self-test that can be used by HIV-positive individuals to monitor their health between doctors’ visits.

A groundbreaking journey undertaken this May to build global competency at Purdue introduced 15 minority engineering students to Brazil, where — as one participant put it — they saw through a new lens the value of “getting to know people for who they are.”

Please join us in welcoming our newest staff!

The International Education Week (IEW) is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide.

New OmniVisTech technology says yes.

Master’s degree candidate in biological engineering Margaret Hegwood supports the Boren Fellowship for national security and strategic language studies.