School Logo

The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences logo is a stylized mortar and pestle, the basic tools that a pharmacist uses to grind substances into powder when compounding medicines. You can see the original design above, and also see it etched into the side of a three-dimensional version of itself in the header at the top of this page. The logo was the winner of a student design contest many years ago. Although not obvious at first glance, our mortar and pestle consists primarily of the letters "P" and "U", for "Purdue University". The image below makes this easier to see.