Black Cultural Center celebrates 50 years of embracing diversity Folks you’d better stop and think.Everybody knows we’re on the brink.What will happen, now that the King of love is dead? Three days after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Nina Simone and her band debuted “Why? (The King of Love Is Dead)” in New […]
Across Purdue’s campus, several time capsules will one day give future Boilermakers a glimpse into university life during the 20th and 21st centuries. Some of the time capsules are buried near campus landmarks, while others are nestled within the cornerstones of key campus buildings or within the walls of new construction. On September 11, 1970, […]
Kait Hauber is a junior at Purdue University studying aerospace and astronautical engineering. She’s also racing in the Purdue Grand Prix on Saturday, April 13. We talked with her about how she got involved with Grand Prix, her decision to attend Purdue, and what it’s like to be a woman in a traditionally male field. […]
Purdue Alumni offers career coaching/counseling services As a child, Maureen Huffer Landis spent a year living in the Middle East with her family. It was a formative experience for Huffer Landis, then in sixth grade. As a young woman, she felt a call to help others “value different cultures and make positive world contributions.” Today, […]
Purdue Alumni offers tools uniquely suited for entrepreneurial class In 2016, Aaron Drake (S’04) made a major shift in his career. After working within larger organizations — and, in his words, feeling a bit like a cog — Drake ventured out on his own, creating a consulting business out of greater Louisville. As Drake made […]
Anthony “Tony” Harris (ME’75, HDR E’13) has always loved math. But he didn’t take calculus or any advanced classes in related fields — they weren’t even available at his south-side-Chicago high school in the 1960s. That never stopped Harris from dreaming big. He thought he’d become an architect, but his drafting-class teacher advised him engineering […]
Modeling Success What does it mean to be the only woman at your level in an organization? The only African American on your team? The essential in the question isn’t which word follows “only.” You could replace woman with Muslim, or African American with Latina. The heart of the question is what it means to […]
Still a long way to go in equal treatment of men and women athletes Tennis star Serena Williams being stripped of a point, then penalized a game, then fined $17,000 at the US Open was the “grossest example of sports sexism yet,” said two CBS.com journalists — both women. A male writer for the Telegraph in […]
A well-timed case of appendicitis spared John Wooden’s life. But the Boilermaker who died in his stead aboard the USS Franklin was never far from his mind. It has been more than 70 years but Nancy Wooden Muehlhausen remembers it to this day. The fear. The anxiety. The unknown. Ten-year-old girls aren’t supposed to be […]
From dirty socks to pickle juice, athletes share the pregame rituals that calm their nerves and give them a competitive edge The tics, wipes, bends, shuffles, and flexes you might see at the free throw line or in the batter’s box are only momentary rituals that basketball players, baseball players, and other athletes use aiming […]
