I come from a small industrial town in the eastern part of India called Asansol. After earning my bachelor’s in 2011, I worked as a software developer in Kolkata. Although the work was interesting, I couldn’t help but feel that something was missing. Pursuing higher education in the U.S. was my dream, but quitting my […]
A s the COVID-19 coronavirus spread around the globe, university administration acted swiftly to minimize the threat to campus. Thousands of students moved out early. Social distancing and stay-home orders were implemented. Purdue held its first virtual commencement. Meanwhile, alumni everywhere found ways to fight the pandemic and support their communities by working on the […]
Senior, Krannert School of Management || Pune, India Best thing about Purdue? A campus culture determined to help everyone go one brick higher. We are anything but complacent. How’d you get involved in Mortar Board? I was nominated by mentors from previous involvements and was extraordinarily humbled on being tapped as part of the 2020 […]
Lunar New Year, often a time of lavish feasts and customs, is one of the most important cultural observances in many Asian communities. Falling in January or February, the holiday is typically celebrated during the second new moon after the winter solstice; the dates fluctuate based on the lunar calendar. A host of Purdue’s academic […]
Throughout his career, Ashwin Kutty (MBA’04) has worked in a number of fields, from health care to technology to academia. So it was only natural that he’d end up in an industry that spans almost every sector imaginable. Kutty is the president and CEO of WeUsThem, an advertising agency and global consulting think tank based […]
Mayura Davda (ME’13) is a dreamer. Growing up in India, she was continually inspired by her dad and his innovative approach to life. “Watching my father’s entrepreneurial journey in my formative years shaped me personally and professionally,” she says. “His tremendous grit and optimistic way of living imbued me with a strong sense of perseverance […]
Quick: Name an electronics company whose value grew faster than that of Microsoft, Facebook, and Google. Can’t? It’s cellphone maker Xiaomi, based in Beijing, China. Now a shareholder of that $45 billion corporation, KK Wong (S’96) helped found the company in 2010. Wong and six other cofounders worked around the clock to build what would […]
Koula Sophianou (LA’95, MA’97) lives a cosmopolitan life as the ambassador of Cyprus to the Kingdom of Spain. It’s the kind of life Sophianou dreamed of growing up in her island country, where early life was marked by tragedy: her father was killed during the Turkish army invasion of Cyprus in 1974, when Sophianou was […]
As a budding engineer working on cutting-edge technology in Boulder, Colorado, in 2007, Hamzah Nassif (ECE’03, MBA’10) began to dream about how he could apply his passion for technology in a new career back home in Jordan. But Nassif recognized his home country’s region lacked even the basic elements to sustain the ecosystem of innovation […]
Imagine walking out of a restaurant, store, or your office, hopping on a bicycle a few steps away, riding to your next destination, and securing the bike at any nearby rack or parking area without needing to carry a lock. That’s the dream Candice Xie (M’16) and Edwin Tan (MS ME’17) had in early 2016, […]
