While green energy may be a buzzword that gets tossed around the social media and business worlds with alacrity, it is much more than the environmental cause du jour for Pak Lam Brian Chan (LA’11) — green energy is part of his family business. Chan took over as CEO of P.T. Rimba Palma Sejahtera Lestari […]
Students grab their screwdrivers to dismantle everyday objects Read a textbook, listen to lectures, master the theories — all keys to learning. Sometimes, though, you need hands-on exploration. Students in any major are invited to bring their curiosity to How Stuff Works, ME297. There, they’ll meet teaching assistants like Shankar Srinivasan (ME’18), who took his […]
Students map out individualized tech degrees Think of three to five areas in your life that you are passionate about. Now imagine being able to blend those diverse interests into one fascinating career path. That’s what the transdisciplinary studies major at Purdue Polytechnic Institute offers to students. In May, a handful of students became the […]
Machine vision’s new niche — sorting baseball cards By day, Jim Parker (ECE’90) designs and engineers tiny machine vision cameras embedded in surgical and lab equipment. At night, he uses the same technology in his side business sorting baseball cards. Yes, baseball cards. Parker works for Syracuse, New York-based JADAK, a top supplier of data […]
Honoring students who have passed away each academic year, Purdue’s Golden Taps ceremony was first observed in 1994. The Cary Quadrangle leadership honorary, Pendragon, spearheaded the development of the tradition with the hope of building unity among the student body. At the first service, family, friends, and the campus community gathered in Cary’s Spitzer Court, […]
Lessons on preparation, failure learned on the softball field One week before she graduated in May, Stephanie Ramsey (LA’18) played her last Big Ten softball game. In those waning innings, as she guarded second base, Ramsey surely considered the softball routines that became old hat — batting practice, dugout chatter, road trips. The bittersweet last […]
Name: Cathy Alkire Gig: Horticulture specialist Years on the job: 26 On duty: Plan and design flower beds; grow plants from seed in the greenhouse; install, water, and fertilize 40,000 plants around campus each year; tend to flower beds and landscape features. You’d be surprised: We find a lot of cell phones in the flower […]
When Ammie Hudson-Blahuta (HHS’02) prepared to cut the ribbon at the grand opening of GiGi’s Playhouse Sugar Land with a huge pair of scissors, surrounded by family and friends, she realized that Sugar Land, Texas, was taking a big step forward. For Hudson-Blahuta, a mother of two, the snip signaled a goal accomplished. “When the […]
Every day, 22 people die waiting for an organ transplant. Darrin Carrico (HHS’90) is trying to change that unacceptable statistic. Carrico graduated with a degree in restaurant, hotel, and institutional management, with an emphasis on business, but realized six months after graduating that his passion lay elsewhere. “I had an entrepreneurial bent, but I wanted […]
How athleticism delivered Donald Winston from a life of poverty, hardship When a teacher asked Donald Winston what the most important thing in his life was, the freshman at Scecina Memorial High School in Indianapolis had a one-word answer: Football. Winston (T’00, MS T’01) was a non-Catholic and an African American in a predominantly white […]
