Before they set off into space, experienced zero gravity, or walked on the moon, astronauts like Neil Armstrong (AAE’55, HDR E’70) and Eugene Cernan (ECE’56, HDR E’70) were Purdue students using slide rules for their engineering, mathematics, and statistics courses. The Barron Hilton Flight and Space Exploration Archives, part of the Karnes Archives and Special […]
Visitors to the Mullins Reading Room in the Wilmeth Active Learning Center (WALC) may be taken by surprise when gazing at the study area’s north wall. Quietly imposing, a near life-size replica of Emanuel Leutze’s masterpiece Washington Crossing the Delaware presides over hushed, contemplative students. The authorized copy of the famous work was commissioned in […]
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 […]
Installed in May 2009, the green roof on the second floor of Schleman Hall of Student Services provides visitors with patio relaxation and study areas surrounded by a vegetative oasis. The project was spurred by the student-run Boiler Green Initiative and was one of the group’s first projects. The surface of the roof is covered […]
A visit to Pappy’s Sweet Shop is a step back in time. Opened in 1927, the eatery has long been a favorite gathering place for students. Located in the Union Commons on the ground floor of the Purdue Memorial Union, the Pappy’s of today harkens back to the diner heydey of the 1950s. A $1.9 […]
From the mid-1910s until 1969, Purdue faculty, staff, students, and visitors had the chance to stop by the Purdue University Creamery on campus, where they could purchase fresh ice cream. The creamery was housed in Smith Hall after a gift of $50,000 from William C. Smith, a farmer from Williamsport, Indiana, to fund a building […]
Agricultural Hall, built in 1901 in the Beaux-arts Neoclassic style, served as the epicenter for agrarian teaching and research at the university for seven decades. It was renamed Entomology Hall in 1969 when the department took up occupancy in the building. When it faced demolition in the 1990s, preservationists vocalized their desire to save the […]
Purdue Memorial Union is home to many traditions and memorials, including a stained glass window, located at the southwest entrance, dedicated to a past Purdue president. The stained glass window is dedicated to the memory of James H. Smart, president of Purdue from 1883 to 1900. It was donated in 1940 by Alice Earl Stuart, […]
It’s been nearly 20 years since two aviation technology students and their instructor — all experienced pilots — died in a plane crash at the Purdue Airport, but Tom Carney (T’71, MS A’77, PhD S’84) recalls the morning of September 12, 1997, vividly. Carney was one of two administrators who waited near the crash site […]
Perched on the seventh floor of Beering Hall, the 12-seat Vision 21 Conference Room commands one of the best views of campus. Jokingly referred to as the Jedi High Council Chamber among students because its circular design and band of windows evoke the Star Wars setting, the space was lauded as “a distinctive room for […]
