Last apparel design and technology majors showcase collections in the final Purdue Fashion Show The day has finally arrived. It’s five o’clock in the morning when the hair and makeup teams roll into the Cordova Recreational Sports Center and begin setting up the makeshift studio space where they will be camped for most of the day. Designers […]
Life is made up of an infinite number of choices. Many are mundane, but the more difficult decisions have the power to transform us, helping us lean into a bigger life. Platitudes like “choose the road less traveled” make those big decisions — true turning points in our lives — seem simple and exhort us […]
Meghan Fay (HHS’06) has a knack for being in the right place at the right time. What else could explain a career that began with a degree in behavioral neuroscience and has included continent-hopping work in law, wedding planning, and luxury fragrance design? Her personal credo underscores the varied avenues she’s taken: “I have a […]
Superhero socks, astronaut diapers, and chasing your childhood dreams — it’s all there in Astro Maker’s first-person chronicles of six months aboard the International Space Station. Scott Tingle was the oldest of The Chumps. Of the 3,566 applicants to the 2009 astronaut candidate class, NASA selected nine to train for space flight. In keeping with tradition, […]
Honors course explores how zines fostered communities of resistance “Technology serves to institute new, more effective, and more pleasant forms of social control and social cohesion.” —Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man In the aftermath of World War II, social critics in the United States grew increasingly pessimistic about the roles of mass media, consumerism, and bureaucracy […]
Teaching students how to pick up a pencil and communicate their ideas One of the greatest inventors of all time created a lot of ugly design drawings. Thomas Edison’s sketches may not be pretty, but they communicated his ideas, and that’s essential to collaboration and innovation. Todd Kelley, associate professor of technology leadership and innovation, […]
MMA athlete credits Zen-like philosophy for heavyweight success Matt Mitrione won’t take a punch in the face for free. Certainly not if he can help it. In fact, in five of 18 professional fights, he says he hasn’t even been touched. Having played on some of Purdue’s greatest football teams, Mitrione (LA’04) employs unique training […]
On the second floor of the Delon and Elizabeth Hampton Hall of Civil Engineering, a museum-quality exhibit transports visitors to another realm: the El Aguila Mine near Oaxaca, Mexico. The Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) mining exhibit, constructed in 2013, occupies a short hallway and two adjacent walls, and it has all […]
