Campus landmarks we really love 1. Lions Fountain Sustained by the Reamer Club, the Lions Fountain boasts decades of tradition. Located on the northeast corner of Memorial Mall, the Lions Fountain includes four lion heads facing out in each direction. The drinking fountain was dedicated in 1904 as a gift from the class of 1903 […]
Quite literally transforming campus, the 40-foot bronze Transformation sculpture was installed on the south portion of campus in 2002 to serve as more than an art form. Transformation was given to the University as a gift from the class of 1952. The class raised over $860,000 for a scholarship fund and the commissioned piece that […]
Throughout his career, Ashwin Kutty (MBA’04) has worked in a number of fields, from health care to technology to academia. So it was only natural that he’d end up in an industry that spans almost every sector imaginable. Kutty is the president and CEO of WeUsThem, an advertising agency and global consulting think tank based […]
Change can be scary, especially when it involves creating an unknown and uncertain path forward. That’s been the reality for some former street kids in Kenya, who were displaced from their families because of issues such as poverty and political unrest. They left life on the streets, where they had developed their own survival system […]
As a poor kid growing up around depression and alcoholism, Molly (Barger) Steinwald (MS S’04) sought solace outside. “We lived in New Hampshire, but I didn’t go skiing or anything,” she says. “I spent a lot of time observing small-scale, nearby nature, and I was always amazed by what you could see on the sidewalk.” […]
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Purdue Alumni connects graduates, advances students The life and legacy of Roger Blalock (HHS’69) was a major inspiration for Toyinda Smith (HHS’98). It wasn’t just his outstanding athletic career, averaging more than 12 points a game on the men’s basketball team. And it wasn’t just his ongoing leadership within Purdue Athletics, coaching men’s basketball from […]
Erika Wetterlin (IE’15) charts her own course to professional success It was a running joke growing up that I learned the Purdue fight song before my ABCs. I spent Saturdays getting up early to tailgate before watching Drew Brees throw another winning touchdown. I’m a third generation Boilermaker, so my parents raised me to believe […]
Quick: Name an electronics company whose value grew faster than that of Microsoft, Facebook, and Google. Can’t? It’s cellphone maker Xiaomi, based in Beijing, China. Now a shareholder of that $45 billion corporation, KK Wong (S’96) helped found the company in 2010. Wong and six other cofounders worked around the clock to build what would […]
Ladies Hall, one of the original three buildings on Purdue’s West Lafayette campus, served several purposes during its existence. Like Purdue’s two other original buildings — Purdue Hall, a dormitory for men, and the Science Building, later known as the Pharmacy Building — Ladies Hall dates to around 1871. It was located near the present-day […]
