A s the COVID-19 coronavirus spread around the globe, university administration acted swiftly to minimize the threat to campus. Thousands of students moved out early. Social distancing and stay-home orders were implemented. Purdue held its first virtual commencement. Meanwhile, alumni everywhere found ways to fight the pandemic and support their communities by working on the front lines, building ventilators, sewing masks, and spreading joy in troubling times. In an April 21 video address to the Purdue community, President Mitch Daniels stated, “Whatever its eventual components, a return-to-operations strategy is undergirded by a fundamental conviction that even a phenomenon as menacing as COVID-19 is one of the inevitable risks of life. Like most sudden and alarming developments, its dangers are graphic, expressed in tragic individual cases, and immediate; the costs of addressing it are less visible, more diffuse, and longer term. It is a huge and daunting problem, but the Purdue way has always been to tackle problems, not hide from them.” Read on for stories of hope and heroism that demonstrate how, despite facing a huge and daunting problem, Boilermakers remain resolute.