For the primary time, analysis funding obtained by Purdue exceeded $600M in FY23, reaching $613M. Concurrently for the primary time, philanthropic items raised exceeded $600M, reaching $610M.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue College has introduced it reached new milestones in each analysis awards and reward funding for fiscal 12 months 2022-23, shattering earlier information for each analysis funding and donor giving to the college. Purdue obtained $613 million in analysis awards in the course of the fiscal 12 months that ran from July 1, 2022, by June 30, 2023. Concurrently, Purdue obtained a document $610 million in personal contributions. These two new information mark the primary time in college historical past that both class surpassed $600 million in a 12 months.
“Excellence at scale is each mirrored in and additional supported by these two new watermarks, concurrently achieved at Purdue this previous 12 months,” Purdue President Mung Chiang stated. “Annual share will increase round 10% for analysis funding and for philanthropic items proceed the compounding rise and are primarily based on the persistent pursuit in excellence by our college, employees and college students and the unbelievable generosity of Boilermaker household and pals.”
Analysis Funding
The college’s whole analysis awards have steadily climbed annually since 2013. The full quantity represents a 9% improve in awards from fiscal 12 months 2022 and a 92% hike over the past 11 years (FY 2013 to FY 2023), with this 12 months’s funding supporting roughly 3,500 analysis initiatives. This 12 months’s funding is benchmarked as excessive for a college with out both a medical faculty or a significant Division of Protection institution.
As part of this record funding, Purdue has seen a significant uptick in larger awards from federal agencies through highly competitive processes, which account for 70% of the research funding at Purdue, with the U.S. Department of Defense topping the list for the first time at $98 million. In FY23, DoD authorized $20 million to advance SCALE, the preeminent U.S. program for semiconductor workforce development in the defense sector.
Other top sponsors include the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, including the National Institute of Health ($95 million), National Science Foundation ($81 million), U.S. Department of Agriculture ($62 million), U.S. Department of Energy ($41 million) and state and local government ($43 million).
Private industry also contributed nearly $90 million to support Purdue research, and the university signed 11 master research agreements, including a new commitment of $50 million from Eli Lilly and Company toward a five-year strategic research collaboration.
“This new record for research awards funding demonstrates the strength of Purdue research and, perhaps even more importantly, the impact of our work by our faculty, staff and students,” said Karen Plaut, executive vice president for research. “Through concentrated effort, Purdue has successfully increased the diversity of our funding sources, providing more opportunities for our researchers across all areas of study and training the next generation of scientific leaders.”
Highlights include:
- $7.8 million in funding from the Semiconductor Research Corp., DARPA and Georgia Institute of Technology for research in two JUMP 2.0 research centers – the Middle for the Co-Design of Cognitive Methods (CoCoSys) and the Middle on Cognitive Multispectral Sensors (CogniSense) – to speed up U.S. advances in info and communications applied sciences.
- A $10 million award from the U.S. Division of Agriculture to fuel economic resilience and sustainability in Eastern U.S. forests.
- A $6.8 million award from the Nationwide Institutes of Well being in assist of the Indiana Medical and Translational Sciences Institute, which works to extend collaboration among the many brightest minds in Indiana to unravel the state’s most urgent well being care challenges.
- A $3.9 million award from the Nationwide Institutes of Well being to demystify the link between obesity and breast cancer.
Philanthropic Presents
Along with analysis awards, Purdue hit an all-time excessive of greater than $610 million from 83,836 donors. These items come from beneficiant donations from alumni, college students, households, companions and foundations, and are sometimes specified for every reward’s supposed function.
In celebration of Purdue Day of Giving on April 26, pupil organizations and Purdue celebrities, together with Purdue President Mung Chiang, participated in a campus relay run. The tenth annual Purdue Day of Giving raised $110.8 million, changing into the biggest single-day fundraising marketing campaign in increased training. (Photograph courtesy: Purdue for Life Basis picture/Brayden Williams)
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FY23 can also be the eleventh consecutive 12 months that the entire raised for pupil assist has elevated. Purdue raised $183 million for pupil assist – a 22% improve over final 12 months.
“Purdue has had one other monumental 12 months in personal giving, due to the generosity of our alumni, pals and followers,” stated Matt People, president and CEO of the Purdue for Life Basis and vice chairman of college development and alumni engagement for Purdue College. “Collectively, by small steps and big leaps, we’re strengthening Purdue’s fame in educating and analysis whereas remaining inexpensive and accessible to good younger minds.”
Information that Purdue donors set this 12 months embrace:
- Complete {dollars} raised: $610.3 million, a rise of 12.6% from final 12 months’s whole and the earlier document of $542.1 million.
- {Dollars} raised for pupil assist: $183 million, up from final 12 months’s document of $150 million. The college has seen an enormous leap in personal assist for scholarships, fellowships and pupil programming annually since 2012-13, when Purdue raised $32 million for pupil assist.
- Largest single-day fundraising marketing campaign in increased training: $110.8 million from Purdue Day of Giving, shattering final 12 months’s document of $68.2 million and bringing Purdue Day of Giving’s cumulative whole because it launched in 2014 to $420.5 million.
About Purdue College
Purdue College is a public analysis establishment with excellence at scale. Ranked amongst prime 10 public universities (Occasions Larger Schooling/Wall Avenue Journal and QS), with two faculties within the prime 4 in the US (U.S. Information & World Report), Purdue discovers and disseminates data with a high quality and at a scale second to none. Greater than 105,000 college students examine at Purdue throughout modalities and places, with 50,000 in particular person on the West Lafayette campus. Dedicated to affordability and accessibility, Purdue’s foremost campus has frozen tuition 12 years in a row. See how Purdue by no means stops within the persistent pursuit of the following big leap, together with its first complete city campus in Indianapolis, the brand new Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. College of Enterprise, and Purdue Innovates, at https://stories.purdue.edu.
Author/Media contact: Wes Mills, wemills@purdue.edu