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  • February 10, 2020

    Spotlight on Mongolia

    Gantulga Nemekhjargal had expected great faculty, challenging classes, and culture-filled trips when he applied to the Purdue University Northwest (PNW) English Language Program (ELP). A practicing lawyer in Mongolia, what Gantulga, or Ganaa for short, had not expected was a native-speaking Mongolian student mentor named Sarnai Tsogtsaikhan. In terms of size, Mongolia is the world’s 18th largest […]

  • February 7, 2020

    Purdue Northwest Joins ACE Internationalization Lab

    Purdue University Northwest, along with 16 other universities across the U.S. and Brazil, has elected to participate in the 17th cohort (2019-21) of the American Council on Education’s (ACE) Internationalization Laboratory, which began in late August 2019. PNW, as part of the 17th cohort, is now one of nearly 170 institutions that have made a […]

  • February 6, 2020

    1,763 Purdue University Northwest Students Earn Dean’s List Honors

    Purdue University Northwest’s 2019 fall semester Dean’s List recognizes 1,763 undergraduate students for their academic achievement.

  • January 31, 2020

    International Students and Homecoming: How You Can Get Involved, and Why You Should

    Learn the “why” behind homecoming, and why it’s an important time for international students to get involved.

  • January 30, 2020

    PNW Athletics Earns 3.29 GPA

    PNW Athletics is proud to recognize the ongoing dedication to academics shown by its student-athletes, averaging a department GPA of 3.29 in the 2019 Fall Semester. This also marks the first time all 13 NCAA Varsity programs achieved team GPAs above 3.0.

  • January 30, 2020

    Expansion of PNW Food Pantry to Westville Campus and the Chancellor’s Challenge

    To: Students, Faculty and Staff From: Thomas L. Keon, Chancellor Date: January 27, 2020 RE: Expansion of PNW Food Pantry to Westville Campus and the Chancellor’s Challenge I am pleased to announce that the PNW Food Pantry, which began as a pilot program serving students in University Village residence halls in August 2019, is expanding […]

  • January 28, 2020

    Shaping the PNW Vision

    PNW Chancellor Thomas L. Keon sees Purdue University Northwest as a ‘driving force’ for advancing Northwest Indiana.

  • January 28, 2020

    Alumni Spotlight: From Engineering to Naval Aviation

    Alumnus and naval aviator John Tonkovich shares how PNW provided the technical aptitude and critical thinking needed for his fast-paced, sometimes unforgiving and constantly changing career.

  • January 27, 2020

    The PNW Service Spirit is Strong!

    Twenty intrepid international students in the Purdue University Northwest (PNW) Office of Global Engagement’s English Language Program (ELP) braved the after effects from the season’s first storm: they met as planned at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, November 1, to clean and preserve the beachfront at this region’s unique treasure, Sand Dunes National Park. Through the […]

  • January 24, 2020

    PNW professors awarded $526,000 NSF grant to explore ‘frontiers of physics’

    Purdue University Northwest’s Neeti Parashar, professor of Physics, and Jim Dolen, assistant professor of Physics, have been awarded a multiyear grant of approximately $526,000 by the National Science Foundation (NSF).