2024 Year in Review

January 9, 2025

Boilermaker Educators in 2024

College of Education students, faculty and staff did innovative research, received awards and research funding, and had an all-around great year as we continued preparing Boilermaker Educators and supporting educators in Indiana and beyond!

College of Education 2024 Year in Review

January

Presenter Phil Cook standing on an auditorium stage. Behind him is a presentation titled "Curiosity, Sticky Learning & Social Media"

9th Indiana STEM Education Conference

Morita-Mullaney receives a 2024 Purdue Dreamer Award

Future Matters: Encouraging, preparing South Bend youth

February

U.S. News & World Report 2024 - #1 Education Program in Indiana, #15 Education Program in the U.S.

Still No. 1 in Indiana: U.S. News & World Report ranks College of Ed online master’s programs at No. 15 in U.S.

15 College of Ed faculty collaborate on $1.5M Lilly Endowment science of reading grant

Rural Ed Summit: Helping rural populations deal with pressing education issues

March

INCEC 2024 Recipients standing and smiling for a photo. In their hands are plaques and certificates.

Begeske named INCEC 2024 Outstanding Professor of the Year

Three outstanding College alumni named 2024 Golden Apple Awardees

Using Minecraft to teach solid mechanics

April

Three College of Education students viewing the solar eclipse through their solar glasses.

Total Solar Eclipse Watch and Learn

College of Education grad program ranks in Top 40 among U.S. public universities

Cooke Foundation awards $200K to GERI

May

Jennifer Smith holding up a sign that says, "Congratulations Murphy Award Winner". She is surrounded by various COE faculty.

Smith awarded Purdue’s highest undergraduate teaching honor

Kastberg named ICME-15 TSG co-chair

PERU-Hub team, partners evaluate project’s progress at Peru workshop

June

Paul Asunda surrounded by three of his primary university partners in Kazakhstan

Asunda leads State Department-funded project to improve Kazakhstan’s STEM education

Not 1 but 2: CATALYST’s Bryan named as 2024 NARST Fellow and to Grand Universe Space Science Institute board

Seven Holmes Scholars named to 2024 cohort

July

A group of GER2I students playing a teambuilding activity outside. Each student is holding a handle of a large circular colorful sheet.

Dissecting squids and other hands-on activities: GER2I’s Super Summer program

Chang to receive Messick award for ‘significant, enduring contributions to quantitative research’

Traynor receives Fulbright Specialist Award to Colombia

August

Jasmine Begeske and Jennifer Smith standing in front of a CREATE poster titled, "What is Assistive Technology."

CREATE-ing tools to help students learn: CREATE center made official

Honoring community educators at Purdue’s Golden Hammer Educator Appreciation football game

College welcomes new faculty, lecturer, post-docs for 2024-25

September

Indiana GEAR UP students jump for joy during a summer STEM Leadership Institute session at Purdue University.

Purdue’s College of Education receives $34.9M grant to continue helping Indiana students, teachers succeed

Transforming Education: College leads Purdue’s 1st online course for new master’s in AI

3 College faculty receive NSF grants

October

Bill Watson and his graduate students standing in front of a projector screen.

Students design “a game about AI using AI”

Bryan named PI on NSF grant to examine youth STEM learning

Inclusive voices, networking opportunities: Over 150 attend 1st-time ICLCLE literacy conference at Purdue

November

Stephen J. Aguilar standing at a podium in front of a projector screen featuring a presentation titled, "In Defense of Human Intelligence."

250+ Educators attend 1st-time Purdue AI in P-12 Education conference

8 Boilermaker Educator faculty to retire in December ‘24

Supporting Indiana school districts: University Search Team

December

A group of College of Education students standing in front of Stewart Center.

Times Higher Ed ranks College of Ed’s education degree as #22 best in U.S., #16 among public universities

Indiana GEAR UP’s new state director wants to ‘remove barriers’ to education

College of Ed professor briefs Congress, NSF on STEM education needs in rural areas

Videos

Education faculty experts

Our faculty experts spoke on a number of varied educational topics during 2024. Purdue Brand Studio produced these videos for the Associated Press and they were shared throughout Indiana and the U.S.

AI in Education

We hosted a miniseries which brought together five brilliant young minds from education, psychology, learning science, and survey methodology. In these videos they share their innovative solutions to challenges powered by AI and data science.

Indiana GEAR UP

The Indiana GEAR UP program (INGU) is housed in the Purdue University College of Education and was awarded $34.9 million over the next seven years (2024-2031) by the U.S. Department of Education to continue its efforts to support Indiana students and educators.

The Purdue University College of Education continues to prepare tomorrow’s educators and to support the education community. We welcome the opportunity to continue to train the educators of tomorrow in 2025.