A trail forged for the people When Jim Baird (A’67) decided to run for Congress in 2017, filling his father’s seat in the Indiana General Assembly wasn’t on Beau Baird’s (HHS’04, MBA’18) radar. But having worked in the background of his father’s campaigns, the younger Baird became intrigued by the possibility of being able […]
Kathryn Cramer Brownell, assistant professor of history, helps interpret nearly a century of political back-and-forth played out from the radio waves to the Twittersphere. Brownell is the author of Showbiz Politics: Hollywood in AmericanPolitical Life. Here are four quick takeaways from her research. The Copycat Effect If a party loses an election, they study their […]
Suzanne Crouch reflects on the values that led her to politics and talks about humility and history 100 years after the passage of the 19th amendment Suzanne Crouch (LA’75) arrived in West Lafayette as a sophomore, having spent her freshman year at the University of Southern Indiana. “My father insisted we spend our freshman year […]
Incumbency, term limits, and the hurdles — and opportunities — facingchallengers in the shifting world of American politics Since Barack Obama upset Hillary Clinton to secure the nomination for president in 2008, the American political landscape has seemed increasingly volatile. Not just in the back-and-forth tug-of-war that is right vs. left politics. But also within […]
Across the nation, Boilermakers are at the heart of America’s democratic process. Ensuring fair elections. Getting out the vote. Running for office on local, state, and national levels. We go behind the scenes and beyond the partisan divides to hear from individuals who work tirelessly to live up to and preserve the noble ideals of democracy […]
Rise to the occasion Prentice Parrish (MS M’00) is a commissioner for the Mayor’s Commission on African American Affairs in Washington, DC When Prentice Parrish joined the Mayor’s Commission on African American Affairs in November 2019, he knew he had a big job ahead of him: the commission focuses on areas ranging from policy to […]
Spend any time at all roaming the labs and libraries at Purdue, and you’ll come away with a sense that Purdue faculty are studying just about everything. From basic research on tiny cells to analysis of the most fundamental laws of the universe, faculty are hard at work, solving the most challenging problems and puzzles […]
