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Out of the Shadows

Ryan Cline’s resiliency, patience pay off in his senior year A lot of people might have given up. They might have transferred. They might have allowed their frustrations to get the best of them. They might have lost their patience. Not Ryan Cline. He knew his time would come. As a senior at Carmel High […]

Nano Ice Cream Guys

Names: Tim Miller (ECE’79) & Kenny Schwartz Gig: Research Engineers Years on the job: Tim: 40, Kenny: 14 On duty: We both work in Birck Nanotechnology Center. We’re two of five left who helped design the facility and its systems. Tim makes the purest water in the world. We go through a few thousand gallons […]

Play Unified

Walk-on guard keeps rising to her ambitions, lifting others along the way Abby Abel has always chased big dreams. After participating in a Purdue youth basketball camp at age 9, she decided she was going to play for the Boilermakers one day. She continued attending camps each summer; by her junior year of high school, […]

Waves of Hope

It’s no surprise that Elizabeth Harter (HHS’12) found herself bringing hope and healing to residents of developing nations lacking adequate medical care — her grandparents, aunt, and uncle have spent years as overseas missionaries and imparted a passion for faith, sacrifice, and adventure. “I felt called to serve the forgotten, to take care of people […]

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