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September 24, 2021

Protect Purdue efforts proving effective a month into semester

Campus vaccination rate climbs to 85%, COVID-19 positivity rates remain low WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A month into the 2021-22 school year, Purdue University’s Protect Purdue efforts continue to be successful in helping keep the campus vibrant, healthy and safe...

September 12, 2021

Purdue faculty, staff members win prizes for choosing to get vaccinated against COVID-19

Michele Brost, a 44-year university employee working in student services for Purdue Athletics, knew getting vaccinated against COVID-19 “was the right thing to do.” Purdue Police Sgt. Nick Crosby thinks he had the coronavirus in late 2019 – even before the...

September 10, 2021

84 Purdue students face disciplinary action for failing twice to comply with required COVID-19 test

Vaccination, surveillance testing rates remain strong overall at semester’s start through Protect Purdue efforts WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The vast majority of Purdue University students are in compliance with the Protect Purdue guidelines by either uploading their vaccine status or...

August 26, 2021

UPDATE: 80% of Purdue campus community documented as fully vaccinated against COVID-19

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Already one of the most vaccinated populations in the state of Indiana, the Purdue University campus community in West Lafayette has reached a milestone in the fight against COVID-19, with 80% of the overall population now fully vaccinated....

August 23, 2021

Protecting Purdue, campus COVID-19 vaccination rate ranks among highest of any community in the state as the fall semester gets underway

Sending a strong message to their classmates, co-workers and all of Indiana, 79% of Purdue University’s West Lafayette campus is documented as fully vaccinated against COVID-19 at the start of the fall semester. Indeed, if Purdue was its own ZIP...

August 17, 2021

Update: More than 40,000 at Purdue, and growing, are documented as fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with one week until classes begin

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — With one week until classes begin and move-in underway, the Protect Purdue Health Monitoring and Surveillance Team released updated data Tuesday (Aug. 17), showing that 40,496, or 75%, of all West Lafayette students, faculty and staff...

August 16, 2021

Returning to Work on Campus — Resources for Employees

Dear colleagues, As we prepare to welcome the largest class in Purdue’s history, you may be returning to campus for the first time since the pandemic began. You might be working a hybrid schedule, spending time both on campus and...

August 10, 2021

President Daniels video update: Welcome back

Dear Boilermakers, Greetings and welcome back. I trust you’re as excited to be on campus as we are glad to have you here, and in person. As has become our custom, I wanted to share a short video update with...

August 2, 2021

10 Purdue students win Old Golden Ticket – equivalent to a year’s in-state tuition – by choosing to get COVID-19 vaccination

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A Willy Wonka-inspired COVID-19 vaccination promotion is putting nearly $10,000 into the hands of 10 incoming and returning Purdue University students ahead of the start of the fall semester. From Indiana as well as Illinois, Ohio,...