Alumnae fondly remember their time as student stewardesses during the golden age of flight It would be a few more years before Frank Sinatra crooned, “Come fly with me, we’ll fly, we’ll fly away,” but in the early to mid-1950s, the romance of flight had already won the hearts of Purdue students who signed on to […]
A trio of Purdue alumni, by coincidence, join to make the world a little brighter for kids in need Amy O’Shea wanted to change the world. Unbeknownst to her, all it took was the help of a couple of fellow Boilermakers to make it happen. Back in 2009, when O’Shea (LA’09) was an undergraduate reporter […]
What could be more renewing than a few days at a lakeside cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains, part of it spent fly fishing? “It was a peaceful setting,” Ann Camden (A’93) says of her April visit to South Carolina’s Oconee State Park. Yet it was so much more. Diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer, […]
Athletics recruiting centers on relationships and persistence Lee Corso sat in Mark Herrmann’s (M’81) driveway with a pen and paper napkin in hand. The Indiana football coach was trying to convince the talented young quarterback from Carmel, Indiana, to bring his skills to Bloomington. “He drew a map with every school in the Big Ten […]
Entering his sixth season as the New England Patriots’ sports dietitian, Ted Harper (HHS’08) is fueling Super Bowl champions. His comprehensive eating plans have helped 300-pound defensive linemen take on double teams totaling 600 pounds and kept 180-pound speedsters fresh on long runs through the playoffs. Yet he wouldn’t have his position with one of […]
It’s easy to be cynical these days. And yet despite the very real problems we face in our world — war, pandemics, climate change — an enormous amount of exceptionally powerful and positive work is happening across the country and around the world. We may live in challenging times, but human ingenuity remains high. In […]
From plastic-bag bans to fair-trade coffee, consumers’ tastes are changing as their sense of connection to the world and its people grows. These days, that connection has even begun to alter where and how investors use their money. Gino Dante Borges (PhD LA’03), partner and director of impact at OpenPath Investments in Truckee, California, says […]
While much of Jung Eun (Jen) Oh’s (MS M’07, PhD CE’08) commitments at World Bank Group focus on transportation projects, the crux of her work involves sustainable development. “It’s finding the best way of using public resources equitably to increase the overall output of an economy, ensure sustainability, and support economic growth,” she says. “It […]
According to the Center for Biological Diversity, the earth is currently experiencing a mass extinction of thousands of plant and animal species. If it goes unchecked, 30 to 50 percent of current species could disappear by 2050. Such a loss would devastate the planetary ecosystem. While mass extinctions occurred in prehistoric ages, this one differs […]
The following story appeared in the Summer 2017 issue of Purdue Alumnus Holocaust survivor found his passion, sense of belonging in Purdue sports As a Jewish Latvian teenager, Mickey Kor (P’52) obsessed over death. That outlook, not the product of angst or adolescent depression, bore straight out of the reality of life in a Nazi […]
