Born in Nashville, Tennessee, David Nelson Crosthwait Jr. (ME’1913) was considered an authority on heat transfer, ventilation, and air conditioning. He was a research engineer, director of research laboratories for CA Dunham Company in Marshalltown, Iowa, from 1925 to 1930. He was the technical advisor of Dunham-Bush Inc. from 1930 to 1971. He served as […]
In 1990, Tarrus Richardson (M’91) became the first black Purdue student body president, with 70 percent of the vote. He is an alumnus of the Dr. Cornell Bell Business Opportunity Program. After Richardson received his bachelor of science in accounting from Purdue, he earned his MBA from from Harvard Business School in 1996. Currently Richardson […]
David Robert Lewis (CE’1894), from Greensburg, Indiana, is noted in Purdue’s historical accounts as the University’s first black graduate. He was one of only nine black students who graduated from Indiana colleges between the Civil War and the year 1900. Lewis’s senior thesis, “Highway Road Construction,” included a review of European road building practices. As a […]
Kassandra “Katie” Agee Chandler (M’80) was born to a blue-collar family from Gary, Indiana. She originally aspired to attend an out of state college following high school graduation. This plan was disrupted when she was contacted by Cornell Bell (PhD EDU’72, HDR M’07). Bell discovered Agee Chandler during her senior year of high school and […]
As a coach, Lindsey Hicks inspires students athletically and academically Lindsey Hicks (LA’04) had no intention of coaching basketball. She’d just finished up playing professionally overseas for six season after college when she received a phone call that would change her life. The call was from Pam Stackhouse, who was an assistant women’s basketball coach […]
What is it like to experience a moment in someone else’s life? We stepped into the shoes of Purdue alumni who have been in history-making, life-changing, or just plain weird moments. What does it feel like to eat fire and swallow swords? Joel Van Auken (S’18) and Troy Deckard (MS -S’04) met in the Purdue juggling […]
Have you ever looked at an NFL team and wondered what they eat? Well, Purdue alum Ted Harper (HHS’08) knows exactly what they eat. For the past eight seasons, Harper has planned and managed as many as five meals a day for the New England Patriots players, coaches, and staff. This video (produced by the […]
We asked Katie Rippel to share some of her insight from her career at Anheuser-Busch, where she started work as an intern in 2001. Rippel started as brewing front-line supervisor, steadily working her way up the ranks in a heavily male-dominated profession. Rippel has incredible insight from her career. We asked her to share thoughts […]
We asked Katie Rippel to share some of her insight from her career at Anheuser-Busch, where she started work as an intern in 2001. Rippel started as brewing front-line supervisor, steadily working her way up the ranks in a heavily male-dominated profession. Rippel has incredible insight from her career. We asked her to share thoughts […]
We asked Katie Rippel to share some of her insight from her career at Anheuser-Busch, where she started work as an intern in 2001. Rippel started as brewing front-line supervisor, steadily working her way up the ranks in a heavily male-dominated profession. Rippel has incredible insight from her career. We asked her to share thoughts […]
