Purdue Alumni Association // President’s Council // John Purdue Club

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Dolores Cooper Shockley

Making History: Dolores Cooper Shockley

Dolores Cooper Shockley (MS P’53, PhD P’55) was the first Black woman to earn a PhD from Purdue and the first Black woman in the United States to earn a PhD in pharmacology. Shockley was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, on April 21, 1930. She enrolled at Louisiana State University in 1947, intending to pursue a […]

Tumaini Innovation Center

A Strong Foundation

Change can be scary, especially when it involves creating an unknown and uncertain path forward. That’s been the reality for some former street kids in Kenya, who were displaced from their families because of issues such as poverty and political unrest. They left life on the streets, where they had developed their own survival system […]