Senior, Krannert School of Management || Pune, India Best thing about Purdue? A campus culture determined to help everyone go one brick higher. We are anything but complacent. How’d you get involved in Mortar Board? I was nominated by mentors from previous involvements and was extraordinarily humbled on being tapped as part of the 2020 […]
This is the second in a two-part story. Read about Shelli Volpp’s (T’93) unexpected return to West Lafayette. After moving my son, Mason, home from Purdue, our house expanded rapidly. Our daughter Emma also had moved back home from college. We now had six people living in the house — four attending school from home, […]
It doesn’t matter how cold it gets on the outside — the icy grip of winter melts away in Purdue’s world-class greenhouses. Inside each you can see what grows in a research and teaching facility where it’s always 78 degrees or warmer. The glass houses lend sights and smells of warm plants growing amid bins […]
The following was originally posted on Gladieux Consulting’s website, founded by CEO Michelle Gladieux (HHS’93, MS T’95), in response to a client question on how to stay positive during the COVID-19 epidemic. Regardless of circumstance, we think that Gladieux’s advice is sound for any time of uncertainty. Dear Michelle, Any tips about staying positive in […]
Champion runner Samara Miller channels her abilities in service to others For Samara Miller (la’19), Purdue was never part of her plan. As the 2016 400-meter national champion senior year of high school, she had plenty of options. “I was recruited heavily by Big Ten schools and even some schools in the SEC,” Miller […]
It all started at the Gap, where Julianne (Smith) McCollum (HHS’97) worked in high school. “I loved trying to understand why people buy certain things,” she says. So when she got to Purdue, she studied consumer sciences and retailing. While her classmates wanted to be buyers, McCollum completed a market-research internship for a shopping-center developer. […]
As a firm believer in the power of discipline and building habits that support your goals, I can admit that the COVID-19 pandemic threw me for a loop. I’m a wife, a full-time employee, and a business owner — and all of my worlds came crashing together as we began to shelter-in-place in March. In […]
The evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic changed the landscape of how we live, socialize, and work. In a matter of days — sometimes hours — life began to change for many Boilermakers. The cascading events during the last two weeks of March created a new normal for my family and me. Three days before our […]
Name: Ryan Marvel (LA’16) Gig: Environmental Safety Technician Years on the job: One year, seven months On duty: Collect chemicals and biohazardous waste from campus buildings; safely transport them to our hazardous materials storage facility, where we prepare them to be shipped out. All in the mix: Chemical containers are sorted and we blend compatibles […]
How grit and hard work led coach Kevin Sauer to the Olympic stage How do you build the steps to an Olympic podium? For Kevin Sauer (M’76), Purdue Crew coach from 1977 to 1982 and the first coach of the women’s rowing team, it all started with a hammer. “In 1979, I was the head […]
