Names: Tim Miller (ECE’79) & Kenny Schwartz Gig: Research Engineers Years on the job: Tim: 40, Kenny: 14 On duty: We both work in Birck Nanotechnology Center. We’re two of five left who helped design the facility and its systems. Tim makes the purest water in the world. We go through a few thousand gallons […]
Name: Peter Alexis Limon Gig: Lighting technician Years on the job: 21 On duty: Maintain light fixtures in Zone 3 on the north end of campus, including athletic facilities, many engineering buildings, and the Northwestern parking garage. What’s in a name: My parents named me Merribelle but nicknamed me Pete from birth. When I was […]
Redshirt senior Sherridan Atkinson found a home at Holloway After two seasons at Long Beach State, outside hitter Sherridan Atkinson was looking for a new collegiate home. She blanketed Division I coaches with the same generic email, ending each one with a school-specific shoutout — “Fight on Trojans!” or “Go Boilers!” Dave Shondell, Purdue’s head […]
Walk-on guard keeps rising to her ambitions, lifting others along the way Abby Abel has always chased big dreams. After participating in a Purdue youth basketball camp at age 9, she decided she was going to play for the Boilermakers one day. She continued attending camps each summer; by her junior year of high school, […]
MVP Ukari Figgs reflects on NCAA championship 20 years on For Ukari Figgs (me’99), the 1999 NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship game got off to a rough start. She went 0–8 on her shots in the first half. Worse yet: Purdue trailed Duke by five. Figgs, however, was undeterred. She had been through too much in […]
As an undergrad, Tammy Patrick (LA’91) thought she wanted to be a professor of literature. Now she travels the country lecturing, but not about books. Patrick, a senior advisor at the Democracy Fund, is one of the nation’s most distinguished elections administrators. She got her start as a temp for Maricopa County, which hired her […]
Marathon runner still pushes toward the finish line The first leg of Ann (Stechschulte) Alyanak’s (HHS’01) return did not go as planned, but she still had enough road left in front of her to ensure a strong finish. Alyanak, a mother of three, had taken a break from competing in marathons during the last few […]
For Edwina Payne (T’86), a career in information technology that has swept her all the way to the office of senior vice president and chief information officer hinges on her own tenacity and the support of a loving family. Payne, who worked as an analyst for the Kellogg Company in Michigan before making the leap […]
As a budding engineer working on cutting-edge technology in Boulder, Colorado, in 2007, Hamzah Nassif (ECE’03, MBA’10) began to dream about how he could apply his passion for technology in a new career back home in Jordan. But Nassif recognized his home country’s region lacked even the basic elements to sustain the ecosystem of innovation […]
Imagine walking out of a restaurant, store, or your office, hopping on a bicycle a few steps away, riding to your next destination, and securing the bike at any nearby rack or parking area without needing to carry a lock. That’s the dream Candice Xie (M’16) and Edwin Tan (MS ME’17) had in early 2016, […]
