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Physicist Nick Giordano
Nick Giordano, physics professor, discusses how to prepare artificial lipid membranes for studies of electrical noise with summer research program participants Rebecca Heine, from Winona State University in Minnesota, and Jacob Millspaw, a Purdue physics doctoral student from Baltimore. Giordano is one of Purdue's 42 professors added to the Book of Great Teachers, which honors outstanding teaching faculty who have demonstrated sustained excellence in the classroom. (Purdue News Service photo/David Umberger)

Many of our programs and departments are highly ranked nationally. Our faculty members are not only nationally and internationally recognized researchers, but award-winning teachers as well.

In the College of Science we don’t just train our students, we educate them. Our students learn not only the technology in their major area, but the theory behind the technology, and it’s the combination of the two that will give them the tools for success in the real world.