For more than 100 years, Purdue Alumni Clubs have been promoting Purdue pride in communities around the nation, and they are currently expanding around the world. These clubs reunite Boilermakers to network, socialize, and relive their Purdue memories even though the location may be many miles from campus. Often alumni gather for a game watch, […]
From tiny Davis, West Virginia, through Purdue to New York City, Robert Kovach (MFA’00) has parlayed small-town sensibility into Big Apple success. Whether he’s designing a General Motors launch of a new vehicle or setting the stage for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat from off-Broadway to theaters across America, Kovach has built a reputation […]
As one of the largest Greek communities in the nation, Purdue is home to 12 cooperative houses and more than 80 fraternities and sororities, many of which have a long history on campus. Now, in the face of challenging headlines nationally, a group of alumni, students, and administrators is coming together to make sure the […]
Orlando Ashford (T’91, MS T’93) had never been on a cruise when he took over as president of the Holland America line on December 1, 2014. He embarked on his first one four days later. “There are some fun perks to the job,” he says. A rising star in the corporate world, Ashford was working […]
When you hear the description of digital space, you might think it is the setting of a sci-fi movie. But to Kendra Bracken-Ferguson (LA’02), she sees a marketplace with endless opportunities for businesses to build their brand and seize more market share. It is a world that she is so equipped to explore that she […]
Wrestling and winemaking might make for strange bedfellows in the same story, especially grappling for position in a single sentence. But the young lives of the Manuel brothers, Luke (LA’11) and Matt (A’12), have been distinguished by matted maneuvers and growing grapes. The former Purdue wrestlers, now part of a family-owned winemaking business in California, […]
For Breanne Lawler (HHS’12), a Purdue student working toward her doctorate in audiology, the moment that confirmed her place in her chosen profession came in Lusaka, Zambia, as she and other students from the department provided hearing assessments for Zambian children and adults. A woman who was experiencing difficulties with her hearing walked more than […]
Study shows less women’s sports TV coverage today than 25 years ago A young girl sits with her parents watching a sports anchor on a television newscast. He recaps video clips from athletic events, verbally punching the air: Bingo! Thunderous! Awesome! Every highlight depicts men’s sports. No women’s sports are shown. The girl soaks in […]
Is the campus model close to becoming an artifact? In 1957, the Department of Facilities Planning and Engineering pursued the idea of a physical campus model to give visitors an overview of the Purdue campus and surrounding community. At a price of $12,500, the model was built and installed in the Great Hall of the […]
I wish we had a staff picture. If we did — the Purdue Exponent, 1984–85 — I could draw arrows from those faces of 30 years past, the faces of students putting out a newspaper at a university known for engineers and astronauts, a university that didn’t even offer a journalism degree. The arrows would […]
