News Articles

  • February 10, 2023

    Purdue Northwest readies for Science Olympiad competitions

    Purdue University Northwest (PNW) will welcome 37 middle and high school Science Olympiad teams to its Hammond campus during the spring semester for STEM academic competitions on Feb. 11.

  • February 8, 2023

    HAAS 2023 Scholarship Recipients

    Eight students in PNW’s Mechanical Engineering Technology and Mechanical Engineering programs are recipients of this year’s Haas Foundation scholarships.

  • December 20, 2022

    Recognizing Our Graduates

    Purdue University Northwest proudly celebrates the graduates who received their degrees during two commencement ceremonies on Dec. 10, 2022.

  • December 19, 2022

    PNW’s ‘STEM on the Road’ engages young audiences with college science, research possibilities

    When a Purdue University Northwest (PNW) “STEM on the Road” program comes to visit, high schoolers can preview the driver’s seat, quite literally, of where their science, engineering and technology applications can go in a college learning environment.

  • August 31, 2022

    PNW chemistry professor earns Fulbright award

    PNW associate professor of Chemistry Meden F. Isaac-Lam recently received a Fulbright award to promote and exchange interdisciplinary chemistry research in three different Southeast Asian countries during the summer of 2023.

  • August 25, 2022

    Purdue Northwest CIVS researchers awarded at AISTech conference

    PNW’s Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS) won three prestigious awards at the Association for Iron & Steel Technology 2022 conference and exposition.

  • July 28, 2022

    PNW awarded $133,000 from state of Indiana for work to improve local cardiovascular health

    PNW’s Integrative Physiology and Health Sciences (IPHS) Center has received a grant for $133,000 from the Indiana Department of Health (IDH), as part of the department’s Health Issues and Challenges program, for local initiatives to improve and promote cardiovascular health.

  • July 7, 2022

    The Last Word with Dr. Hassan Naji

    In the wake of the pandemic, epidemiologists and other healthcare professionals working to prevent, diagnose, and treat infectious diseases have become rockstars. Read about Dr. Naji's rockstar status on the Flourish website.

  • April 6, 2022

    Exercise is Medicine® On Campus premieres at PNW

    The EIM-OC committee scheduled speaker sessions and hands-on activities during its first ever Exercise is Medicine® Month starting April 7. More than just finding ways to be physically active, programming will incorporate lectures on diet choices, physiological changes, stress management, and sleep all as additional building blocks of proactive health.

  • September 14, 2021

    Purdue University Northwest Engineering Students Design Barrier System for Michigan City Pier

    A group of Purdue University Northwest (PNW) engineering students spent their senior year putting their knowledge and skills to the test in the real world. The students, members of the Senior Engineering Design I and II classes, designed a barrier system for the Michigan City pier that is expected to be constructed later this year.