Nyagoa Gony named to Big Ten Anti-Hate and Anti-Racism Coalition As the daughter of South Sudan refugees, Nyagoa Gony has social justice in her blood. Her parents fled the war-torn country and resettled in South Dakota, where Gony was born, before relocating to Lincoln, Nebraska. “I feel like I’ve always been an activist,” Gony says. […]
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 […]
(Writing as Karin Biggs) What is your background? I come from a family of proud Purdue grads (my dad is one of the out-of-this-world Purdue astronaut alumni!). My husband and I met through Purdue Musical Organizations — I was a Purduette, and he was our drummer. After eight years in the event planning industry, I […]
For a generation, Indiana has consistently ranked in the bottom 10 states in terms of voter turnout. Ann and Bill (A’74) Moreau are working to change that. As co-founders of Indiana Citizen — a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization dedicated to increasing registered voters — they helped launch a new campaign called One More Voice. How […]
Traditionally, Purdue’s campus has been less involved in elections than other Big Ten schools. But with students getting involved in local politics after West Lafayette annexed Purdue’s campus, an uptick in participation in 2018, and the University’s commitment to on-campus learning this fall, that could be about to change. The year 2008 was a big […]
Iowa: Making Politics Personal Again Connie Doebele knew she had made the right choice to join the team at C-SPAN after a phone call came in from Hanover, Kansas — a short drive from her hometown. “Brian Lamb (LA’63) was interviewing the publisher of the New York Times, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., and Howell Raines, the […]
When Donald Spencer (S’18, LA’18) left his hometown of Brownsburg, Indiana, for college, a life in politics wasn’t on his radar. He started school with the intent of following a premed track and becoming a doctor. Then, when West Lafayette annexed Purdue’s campus, Spencer took another look at politics, seeing the chance to run for […]
Abigail Spanberger’s approach to politics is simple: ask questions, get answers, create solutions. When Abigail Spanberger (MS M’02) ran for Virginia’s seventh Congressional district in 2018, you probably wouldn’t have put money on her chances. Republicans held the seat for nearly 40 years. Its election outcomes were predictable. If you heard mention of it, it […]
Judd Choate (M LA’94, PhD LA’97) talks about the logistics of voting during apandemic, how to spot bad information on the web, and what it was like to lead the US response to Russian interference in the 2016 election Fifteen minutes before our Wednesday morning interview was due to start, I got a text. “Hi, […]
