Each year, Purdue faculty receive international honors for scholarship.
Faculty are catalysts for ensuring productive involvement in international affairs.
The Office of International Programs established the Global Initiative Faculty Grant Funds to help spark multidisciplinary international projects, to provide organizational support that facilitates curriculum development, and to expand collaborative research as well as student and faculty exchange programs. Annual grants are offered to faculty who demonstrate extraordinary ingenuity and scholarly ability in their respective fields. Many seed grants have led to larger, long-term consortia arrangements that expand course alternatives for students, research opportunities for faculty and graduate students, study and work abroad options for students and faculty, and revenues for Purdue and the state of Indiana. The Office of International Programs has assisted every academic school at Purdue in establishing faculty exchanges around the world. The University's research centers provide extensive opportunities for internal partnerships.