After spending time at the beginning of his career with an ad agency, Levi Eads (LA’09) took his communication expertise to the nonprofit sector — and he discovered it was an ideal fit. He had always enjoyed volunteering with charitable organizations, and this career move combined his desire to help others with his interest in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Lunar New Year, often a time of lavish feasts and customs, is one of the most important cultural observances in many Asian communities. Falling in January or February, the holiday is typically celebrated during the second new moon after the winter solstice; the dates fluctuate based on the lunar calendar. A host of Purdue’s academic […]
Michele Bisceglie (LA’96) arrived at Purdue the Saturday before classes. It was her first time on campus — and in Indiana. The South Jersey native jokes she got kicked out of her home state because of her love of country music, but the real story is more straightforward. “My guidance counselor suggested Purdue,” Bisceglie […]
Popcorn. Hot Dogs. Hot cocoa on a cold football Saturday. While the students in Keith Molter’s (LA’76, MS HHS’89) Purdue School of Hospitality and Tourism Management (HTM) class served up good eats at a Ross-Ade Stadium concession stand, they offered up so much more. A healthy portion of compassion and commitment to a cause was […]
The globe-spanning, heart-pounding, life-saving work of academic field research It’s easy to believe that academic research is all about paging through dusty books or carefully pouring colorful liquids from test tube to beaker. And yes, professors love their libraries and labs. But it’s far from the whole picture. It turns out that some of Purdue’s […]
