Strategic planning may not often be described as thrilling, but for Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko (LA’94), it’s one of the best parts of her job as the president and chief executive officer of the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine. “I love imagining a future with a group of people and looking at the reality of what’s […]
If you’re going to work a retirement job, running a bed and breakfast in the US Virgin Islands might be tough to beat. From the white sand and turquoise waters to the interesting conversations with guests from all over the world, it’s worked out pretty well for Nancy Louis (LA’76). “I wanted a beach house,” […]
Jill (Steiner) Zeller (A’09) knows that running a profitable farming operation is a lot of hard work. Both she and her husband, Casey (A’10), come from farming families and still occasionally lend a helping hand during planting and harvest seasons. Agriculture is a part of her DNA, and she empathizes with the plight of the […]
When Elizabeth Carter (HHS’12) landed her job at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health in Indianapolis, she didn’t just fulfill her dream, she actually was returning to where her life began. As a quadruplet born at 30 weeks, she started life in the Riley Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU); and now, all grown up, […]
Purdue researchers are tackling the challenge of making science, technology, engineering, and math — collectively known as STEM fields — more accessible to young students, and to girls in particular. As a little girl with an acute interest in science, Brenda Capobianco couldn’t have been born into a better family. “I’m one of six children, […]
Kelly Higdon (LA’96), known to followers by her show name, “Kelly K,” is always up before you. She sets her alarm for before the sun rises and uses her irrepressible personality as a lifeline for thousands of WDJX listeners in the Louisville, Kentucky, area. “I went to school with the intention of concentrating on TV […]
Amanda Harvey (ME’92) has worked in different aspects of the movie business for years, but her latest project, as lead producer on the Hemingway-centric docudrama, PAPA: Hemingway in Cuba, made history. It’s the first Hollywood production filmed on location in Cuba since the 1960 trade embargo that essentially closed the island nation to US business […]
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 […]
Sometimes you don’t know what you really want until you don’t have it anymore. When Jennifer Rumsey (ME’96), a native of Columbus, Indiana, graduated from Purdue, she was pretty sure she was done with Midwestern life. Rumsey went to Boston, where she earned a master’s degree at MIT and then went to work for Nuvera […]
My eight-month mission in simulated space exploration It was around 1:00 a.m., and we were huddled in a circle just outside our rooms. The cold nights were nothing new. We’ve been awakened by the ruckus of strong winds flapping our habitat’s vinyl covering against its metal frame. The winds of this storm were the strongest we […]
