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Serving Up Impact

Popcorn. Hot Dogs. Hot cocoa on a cold football Saturday. While the students in Keith Molter’s (LA’76, MS HHS’89) Purdue School of Hospitality and Tourism Management (HTM) class served up good eats at a Ross-Ade Stadium concession stand, they offered up so much more.  A healthy portion of compassion and commitment to a cause was […]

Finding Her Way

Alumna embarks on a 500-mile journey to grapple with her devastating diagnosis and advance breast cancer screening for others The pilgrim gripped each stone, one by one, turning it over in her hand. She felt its weight and ran her finger over its surface before laying it gently down at the base of the Cruz […]

Thank You, Tyler

Everyone has a story. There just needs to be people in this world willing to listen. Every story matters. TYLER TRENTSeptember 7, 1998 — January 1, 2019 The first time I met Tyler Trent (as T’18), I scheduled a half-hour interview. We ended up talking for almost three hours. Tyler had a way about him […]

PUDM students

Dancing for a Cure

The slips of paper, naturally, are faded. It’s been nearly 10 years since John Romine (AS A’08) held them in his hands and scribbled what were, essentially, his last requests and stuffed them in a folder. John was dying of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, unable to secure a bone-marrow match in time to save his life, and […]

Tyler Trent

Don’t Ever Give Up

Tyler Trent was diagnosed with bone cancer twice by age 18. He’s had nine major surgeries in the past three years. Now the Purdue freshman and die-hard sports fanatic is determined to live life on his own terms, come what may. Tyler Trent knows the statistics.  According to the American Cancer Society, about 450 children […]

Women at a Casting for Recover retreat

The Lure of Hope

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, […]

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Holding the Keys to Cancer

Researchers use supercomputers, biology, drugs, surgical advances, and the body itself in an intricate approach to uncover which might hold the keys to curing cancer. Cancer patients often feel as though they’ve walked through a forbidden door that has slammed and locked behind them. Diagnosis brings questions, fears, and treatments that may be as uncomfortable as […]

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