In the middle of May, on the first day of her Able Flight experience at Purdue University, Shavon McGlynn experienced her first airplane ride in a cockpit. “I went up with my instructor, and I was overwhelmed. I thought, ‘I don’t think I’m going to get my license.’ He showed me some maneuvers and then […]
A week after Abigail Ekeigwe’s (MS T’16) friend Nkechi gave birth by caesarean section last November, she was not healing, and she was experiencing severe pain and high fevers. “It was clear that she had a serious infection, although she had been on antibiotics. The doctor extended use for another two days, yet she had no […]
More ills than its 6,500 patients bring every month to the Polyclinic of Lidia Saavedra de Ortega in Managua, Nicaragua, once plagued the country’s only pay-as-you-can healthcare site for the elderly. For years, the clinic faced frequent electrical outages, unreliable service, and power fluctuations that damaged X-ray machines, MRIs, and other expensive medical equipment. What […]
Bright and early, the “rig” pulls up to the shelter. The students and staff are like a well-oiled machine and work to get everything set up and ready to go. The shelter sent over their list of animals identified for surgery the day before, so the team is well prepared with enough supplies. Up first, […]
On any given night, hundreds of thousands of Americans — perhaps even a million or more — go to sleep without a home. Whether they’re on the street, in an emergency shelter, in transitional housing or sleeping on a relative’s couch, they don’t have a place to call their own. Sadly, that reality isn’t going […]
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, […]
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 […]
