Best Places to Work in Academia, 2007
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Up from number 25 in last year's survey, Purdue University has made strong headway during the past year, ranking fourth in 2007. With a new university president and its interdisciplinary research center, Discovery Park, gaining recognition, the below-par facilities and bureaucratic irritations that employees cited as weaknesses in last year's survey may be on their way out.
For faculty and researchers at Purdue, the tendency to cooperate stems partly from both Midwest upbringing and school tradition. "When you need something from someone else's lab you can send your grad student over there and he'll get it," says Mark Hermodson, ...
