Alumnus renovates his sophomore landscape design 20 years later Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. —Frances Hodgson Burnett, author, The Secret Garden The hidden light court encased within the walls of Duncan Hall in downtown Lafayette, Indiana, was neglected and overgrown when Aura […]
Honoring students who have passed away each academic year, Purdue’s Golden Taps ceremony was first observed in 1994. The Cary Quadrangle leadership honorary, Pendragon, spearheaded the development of the tradition with the hope of building unity among the student body. At the first service, family, friends, and the campus community gathered in Cary’s Spitzer Court, […]
Name: Cathy Alkire Gig: Horticulture specialist Years on the job: 26 On duty: Plan and design flower beds; grow plants from seed in the greenhouse; install, water, and fertilize 40,000 plants around campus each year; tend to flower beds and landscape features. You’d be surprised: We find a lot of cell phones in the flower […]
Last apparel design and technology majors showcase collections in the final Purdue Fashion Show The day has finally arrived. It’s five o’clock in the morning when the hair and makeup teams roll into the Cordova Recreational Sports Center and begin setting up the makeshift studio space where they will be camped for most of the day. Designers […]
Meghan Fay (HHS’06) has a knack for being in the right place at the right time. What else could explain a career that began with a degree in behavioral neuroscience and has included continent-hopping work in law, wedding planning, and luxury fragrance design? Her personal credo underscores the varied avenues she’s taken: “I have a […]
Honors course explores how zines fostered communities of resistance “Technology serves to institute new, more effective, and more pleasant forms of social control and social cohesion.” —Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man In the aftermath of World War II, social critics in the United States grew increasingly pessimistic about the roles of mass media, consumerism, and bureaucracy […]
Teaching students how to pick up a pencil and communicate their ideas One of the greatest inventors of all time created a lot of ugly design drawings. Thomas Edison’s sketches may not be pretty, but they communicated his ideas, and that’s essential to collaboration and innovation. Todd Kelley, associate professor of technology leadership and innovation, […]
Despite the fact that many students could not vote in federal elections in the 1950s and ’60s (the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, wasn’t ratified until 1971), Purdue was home to five mock national conventions during the two decades. Initially petitioned in 1935, it wasn’t until 1952 that the […]
Lori (Barnett) Rice (HHS’02) knows a thing or two about experiential learning. As a student in a nutrition communication course at Purdue, she was given an assignment to style food and take a photo. “I remember thinking, ‘Why are we doing this?’” To Rice, who was more interested in fitness and the science of nourishment, […]
Professional cliff diver sees the world from 27 meters Each time Steven LoBue (HHS’09) jumps off a 27-meter diving platform, it’s as if he’s leapt from an eight-story building. He hurtles through the air, accelerating from zero to 55 mph in less than three seconds before entering the water — feet first, always. “From the […]
