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 […]
Introduced in 1940, the Boilermaker Special is the largest and fastest mascot of any college in the world. It is a picture-perfect September day at Purdue. The leaves are turning and the air is crisp. In the distance, you hear a whistle blow and a horn sound, which is followed by a bell. It can […]
After more than two years of blood, sweat, and a lot of financial investment, Paul (T’94) and Emily Ehrgott of Carmel, Indiana, have reached that zenith moment in a long-term project where you look back and marvel that you came through it with your sanity intact and successes to share. The pair have painstakingly renovated […]
The Purdue Entomological Research Collection (PERC) traces its origins to 14 cases of insect specimens held by Purdue’s Zoological Museum in 1879. Though nothing remains of those early collections, likely used for teaching, the present collection has grown to include nearly 2 million specimens, representing more than 140,000 species. “Without question, the PERC is one […]
