Sid McNairy (HHS’93) may have spent a good deal of his life coaching football, but he found his calling not on the field but on the mat. The former Northern Illinois University coach tried the centuries-old practice of yoga in the mid-1990s as he struggled to overcome an injury. Twenty years later, he teaches at […]
In the middle of May, on the first day of her Able Flight experience at Purdue University, Shavon McGlynn experienced her first airplane ride in a cockpit. “I went up with my instructor, and I was overwhelmed. I thought, ‘I don’t think I’m going to get my license.’ He showed me some maneuvers and then […]
We tailed six super students for one weekend at the top mascot training program in the country to discover What does it take to be Purdue Pete? Outgoing, goofy pranksters, they are constantly laughing and joking with one another. They act pretty much exactly how you’d expect a mascot to act. The antics come naturally […]
As Baby Boomers start cleaning out attics and basements, many are discovering that Millennials are not so interested in the lifestyle trappings or nostalgic memorabilia they were so lovingly raised with. Recently, Kathy Hamilton Beno (HHS’82, M’82) and her husband, Greg (M’81), decided to move. Their four children had left home, and they no longer […]
Faculty share transformative visions for our future. We live in a world of small thinking. We live in a world where tomorrow’s world leaders engage in Twitter spats, where national conversations revolve around Bachelorette plot points, and where fast-food menu changes lead to vigorous debate. But what if we decided it was time to break […]
Emily Smith (HHS’10) enrolled at Purdue planning to become a kindergarten teacher. But in a big world, she found an even grander calling. Smith serves as chief of staff for Family Planning 2020 (FP2020), a global partnership hosted by the United Nations Foundation that supports the rights of women and girls to decide — freely […]
Biometric gun lock supports responsible ownership New toy cars with sirens were an exciting addition to Omer Kiyani’s (T’04) play time as a child. In fact, he was more excited about figuring out how they worked than with playing with them. When he dismantled his car to understand its inner workings, he tried to convince […]
Tarkington friends return to their dorm rooms for 10th annual reunion Facing graduation in December 1981, John White (T’81) made his Tarkington Hall buddies swear that they weren’t going to be like every other group of yahoos who promise to stay in touch, but never actually reunite. And so it was agreed that no matter […]
The Victory Bell was purchased in 1877 and suspended in the old heating plant, where it was manually rung as a summons to class and chapel as well as a general warning bell — at least on those occasions when students hadn’t muffled the clapper or turned it upside down and filled it with water […]
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 […]
