Inspired by the autumnal sight of Canada geese flying in formation, student band director Paul Spotts Emrick (ECE’1908) dared to do something in 1907 that no band had done before — break military ranks and form a special shape on the football field. The Block P he created was a marching-band milestone and commenced an […]
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 […]
For Kara Ford (M’12) — or, as she’s more commonly known, DJ Kara — music is the heartbeat of her life. Although she majored in management at Purdue, Ford’s lifelong creative passion led her to Los Angeles, California where she found her calling as a DJ. “Sharing music is something I’ve done naturally ever since […]
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 […]
A behind-the-scenes look at daily operations at the second-busiest airport in the state. 4:12 a.m. We meet Andrew Quirk, airport maintenance coordinator, at 4:00 a.m. on Monday, October 24, 2016, outside of the terminal building. His first order of business — to drive the runways and taxiways to check all of the lights. There are […]
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 […]
Tucked behind the northwest corner of Marriott Hall lies a garden established in 2013 to grow vegetables and herbs for use in the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management food-service labs. Chef Ambarish Lulay, department chef for HTM and chef for the university president at Westwood, conceived the garden as an opportunity to educate undergraduates […]
