While devising a heroine for a murder mystery set in 1660s London, Susanna Calkins (MA’95, PhD LA’01) didn’t want her to be from the upper classes. Lucy Campion begins as a chambermaid for a magistrate and, despite a lack of education, uses her common sense to solve a murder. “I envisioned Lucy as a hardworking […]
Virtual consulting experience generates safe campus solutions COVID-19 has altered the academic landscape in a multitude of ways, not least of which are the manners in which college campuses operate. Purdue is no exception. As plans took shape to determine how to orchestrate a safe return to campus in August, it was clear that students, […]
Lessons from the Beltway for today’s students This is the first installment in a multipart series with Brian Lamb (LA’63, HDR LA’86), the founder of C-SPAN. Lamb retired from his day-to-day responsibilities with C-SPAN in 2019. In 2019, on his retirement from C-SPAN, Brian Lamb struck a cynical tone in an interview with the Wall […]
It was the most divine music he’d ever heard — not the shaman’s “bone-chilling” icaros, or healing songs, but the harmony dancing in its wake deep in the Peruvian jungle, the vibrations still eddying about the hut long after the old man had laid down his cigarette and his bundle of leaves. “Within seconds I […]
Kenneth Tan (ChE’14) may be the youngest global category manager at Halliburton, but his true passion is music. “I have been interested in music since I was 7 years old,” Tan reflects. “I used to watch my uncle Nelson practice violin at my grandmother’s house in Malaysia and one day told my mom that I […]
For a handful of temporary barracks buildings on the West Lafayette campus, “temporary” turned out to mean almost 57 years. They were the last cluster of temporary structures on campus, standing near Stadium and Northwestern Avenues, and it took from February to June 2004 to dismantle them. When they went up in summer 1947 with […]
It started simply. Larry Juday (M’68) of Vancouver, Washington, had retired and pondered getting a dog. With several cats in the house, his wife, Susan Immer, suggested he “get his dog fix at the shelter.” This was in 2006, and hundreds of kittens plus their community have benefited as result of that conversation. Juday and […]
The Purdue Women’s Network connects alumnae around the globe with opportunities to share their skills, knowledge, and leadership to uplift and inspire other women. In this ongoing series, we check in with Purdue alumnae who run their own businesses and are looking to connect with others. Tell us about your academic and professional background. I […]
For most Americans, online voting remains as much a part of the future as a personal aircraft in the style of The Jetsons. “Coming up with electronic mechanisms to vote, where we know the votes are correct from beginning to end, there’s just nothing available,” says Gene Spafford, professor of computer science and executive director […]
PhD student, College of Science || Srikakulam, India Why Purdue? It had the best natural language processing lab that would take me. Best thing about Purdue? Hanging out with friends. We play a lot of sports — racquetball, badminton, squash, table tennis, and volleyball — but we play cricket the most. Favorite dining? Fiesta. My […]
