A tradition Reborn: Aviation Day
After more than 100 years, Purdue students helped bring back Aviation Day in 2016. Originally held in 1911, the first location was a grass landing strip where Elliott Hall of Music now stands. Aviation Day has become an annual event featuring all different kinds of aircraft. Held at the Purdue University Airport, it is open to aviation enthusiasts, young and old alike. Try your hand at making an airplane, play “pin the propeller,” and learn about Purdue’s giant leaps in aviation through the years!
Behind the scenes
Boiler Gold and Boiler Black
Born out of a partnership between the food science department and a Lafayette-based craft brewing company, a portion of the sales of Boiler Black and Boiler Gold beer supports the department’s fermentation sciences program. Both brews were developed using the department’s Hops and Brewing Analysis Laboratory and are made and sold by People’s Brewing Company.
Purdue Bound
Renamed Purdue Bound in 2015, this partnership with Indianapolis Public Schools was established by President Martin Jischke (HDR E’07) in 2002. Formerly known as Science Bound, the program lasts from eighth grade until high school graduation, mentoring students in agriculture, engineering, math, science, and technology. Participants who successfully complete the program are granted full scholarships to Purdue.
Purdue Opportunity Awards Program
“We know there are young people today in every county of Indiana who are qualified to study at Purdue, but obstacles stand in their way. We are going to sweep those obstacles away. It will change lives. I know this from my own personal experience.” Those were the words of Martin Jischke when Purdue launched the Purdue Opportunity Awards Program, offering one freshman from each of Indiana’s 92 counties full tuition reimbursement. The program was later expanded to two students per county.
Purdue Myths
Was Harry’s a Prohibition-era speakeasy? Did John Purdue stipulate that all buildings on campus had to be built with red brick? Does the Vision 21 conference room have its own zip code? Purdue’s campus has developed a mythology all its own.